In recent years, Yuanyang County has fully excavated the connotation of ethnic culture, integrated the resources of "embroidery girls" of various ethnic groups such as the Han nationality and the Yi ethnic group, and created a national industry based on embroidery, which not only carried forward the national culture, but also led ethnic minority women to increase their income and become rich, and effectively promoted the revitalization of the countryside.
Walking into the Panzhihua Township Menglong Embroidery Farmers Professional Cooperative, only to see the state-level Han embroidery painting, embroidery inheritor Wu Shizhu is explaining the main points of Han embroidery to the Yi embroidery ladies, "the flowers are embroidered from the outside to the inside, the color changes from light to dark, layer by layer, and use long and short needles to over-color..." The Yi embroidery ladies embroidered while listening, and embroidered the outline of the flowers in a short while.
Liu Lingzhi, head of the Menglang Folk Embroidery Cooperative, is also one of the training instructors. According to her, the Yuanyang County Women's Federation will hold the "Beautiful Countryside • Women's Academy" handicraft (ethnic embroidery) skills training class every year, and this year, due to the consideration of epidemic prevention and control, the number of trainees has been reduced, and only 50 embroidery girls have participated in the 7-day training in batches.
At the same time, for the first time, the training invited Han embroidery inheritors to give lessons to the embroidery girls, so that the embroidery girls can integrate the advantages of Han embroidery on the basis of the traditional embroidery skills of ethnic minorities, so as to create more and better embroidery works. "I am very happy to see that the young Yi embroidery ladies embroider better than me." Wu Shizhu said.
"This year there is exactly 70,000 yuan of orders, through the training, we have completed the teaching task, but also at the end of the training to complete the hand embroidery order." Liu Lingzhi said. Women of all ethnic groups in Yuanyang County have always had a tradition of embroidery, and the company can integrate resources and complete orders according to customer needs.
"I began to learn ethnic embroidery with my mother when I was 12 years old, and the government also attached great importance to us, asked different teachers to teach us a lot of embroidery skills, and was also responsible for helping us process the embroidery pieces and sell them, I am more and more fond of embroidery." Li Shifen, the heir of the Embroidery of the Yi people, said happily.
Guide embroidery
In March 2016, Yuanyang County adopted the development model of "company + cooperative + inheritance base + embroidery lady", and established the government-led Panzhihua Township Menglang Embroidery Farmers Professional Cooperative and Xinjie Town Embroidery Workshop. After joining the cooperative, embroidery girls of all ethnic groups can usually be busy with agricultural affairs, and they can participate in embroidery cooperation when there are orders or in the agricultural leisure season. The company pays the purchase price to the embroidery lady according to the quality of the embroidery pieces, ranging from 40 to more than 100 yuan per embroidery piece, and the large exquisite embroidery products such as terraced paintings and decorative paintings can reach hundreds of yuan.
Pu Xiuhua, an embroidery lady of the Yi ethnic group, sighed and said: "Now, I have also become the 'half of the sky' in the family, we do not have to go out to work, but we can also take care of the family and embroidery to increase income." ”
In recent years, Yuanyang County has taken embroidery skills training as the basic work to promote the development of the national embroidery industry. Through the training, to a certain extent, the connotation of terraced culture and national culture has been enriched and extended, the development of the folk embroidery industry in Yuanyang County has been consolidated and promoted, and many ethnic minority folk artists and embroidery female talents have been excavated and trained, so that embroidery has become a pillar industry for local women to increase their income and become rich, and primary folk embroidery products have been "transformed" into high value-added products such as national costumes, ethnic handicrafts, and ethnic embroidery.
At the same time, Yuanyang County also adopts the operation mode of "cooperative + member" to form a professional cooperative to concentrate the scattered embroidery girls. It is reported that at present, the Menglong Embroidery Farmers' Professional Cooperative has built a Menglong Toast Embroidery Workshop, developing more than 200 members, including 2 Yi embroidery professional villages, 1 Yi embroidery association, 4 large Yi embroidery marketing households, and more than 1,000 practitioners. In the next step, Yuanyang County will continue to excavate the embroidery of other ethnic groups and support the development of new cooperatives.
Embroidery finished product display
Research Notes
In recent years, the ethnic embroidery industry in Yuanyang County has gradually developed, becoming a new channel for the county to inherit and protect ethnic culture, broaden the employment of rural women at home, improve the social status of rural women, and expand the influence of women's federations. Nowadays, more and more young people are participating in ethnic embroidery, they regard national embroidery as an industry, inheriting national culture and promoting national unity at the same time, but also contributing women's strength to rural revitalization.
Author: Deng Jiao, Yin Minjie, Du Dongmei
Editor: Xiao Linping
Editor-in-charge: Shen Weiqi
Review: Li Yanming