Embroidery a thousand years ago was unearthed in the Mawangdui civilization, shocking the world, the State Council attaches great importance to it, Premier Zhou personally instructed the restoration task, with the strength of the whole country, trying to restore the embroidery civilization of this millennium, no one has successfully repaired it in 20 years! Modern embroidery is tortured by history: "Who can regain the context of this thousand-year-old embroidery history?" ”
Difficulties and challenges encountered in embroidery culture
In 1972, the excavation of the Mawangdui civilization, one of the world's top ten rare treasures, shocked the world. Mawangdui, located in what is now Changsha, Hunan Province, can be traced back to the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. From 1972 to 1974, Mawangdui carried out three archaeological excavations, and unearthed more than 3,000 relics such as silk fabrics, books, paintings, lacquerware, and Chinese herbal medicines.
Among them, the most eye-catching is the famous "Xin Chai" lady, whose phenomenon of incorruptibility for thousands of years is unprecedented and is still the world's top ten unsolved mysteries. Along with the same name is the unearthed Western Han embroidery treasures, a large number, mainly there are letter embroidery, cloud embroidery and longevity embroidery three kinds, others there are also zhuyi embroidery, cloud pattern embroidery, square chess embroidery, down embroidery and feather embroidery, etc., these discoveries have once again refreshed the history of embroidery, the earliest can be traced back to the early years of the Western Han Dynasty.
Premier Zhou specially approved the protection and restoration of the Mawangdui civilization
Restoration and research in all directions were carried out very quickly, but the problem of embroidery restoration encountered unprecedented difficulties. Originally, these embroideries are different from other embroidery products, the unique combination of painting and embroidery has extremely high requirements for the comprehensive quality of the restorers, coupled with the loss of stitching, embroidery and other skills, this problem is 20 years, 20 years, the whole country, several generations of embroidery artists, none of them succeeded.
In the history of embroidery culture, it has encountered unprecedented difficulties and challenges, for this embroidery culture that has been passed down for thousands of years, who can restore its true veil?
Fragments of embroidered cultural relics in Mawangdui
In nearly 20 years of silence,
Until the appearance of an artist,
Successfully restored the embroidery of the millennium,
Perfectly reproduced in front of the world.
It was like a thunderclap that shattered time and space and shocked the world.
She is the highest judge of the Chinese arts and crafts masters - Li Yan.
Behind the reconnection of the millennium embroidery context,
Master Li Yan was remembered,
This master,
What kind of legendary achievements did she have?
Chinese arts and crafts master Li Yan travels through historical and artistic dialogues
Li Yan graduated from the Art Department of Hunan Normal University in 1985 and entered the Hunan Provincial Xiang embroidery research institute in 1985 to engage in Xiang embroidery design. He is known as "a meritorious artist who rewrote the history of Chinese embroidery" and "the first person in Chinese embroidery".
Li Yan has many honors in the field of embroidery: The master of Chinese arts and crafts, signed by the National Development and Reform Commission, and the vice chairman of the National People's Congress personally issued the certificate. The highest status, vice president of the Embroidery Professional Committee of the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association. The highest academic, the president of the embroidery committee of the China Arts and Crafts Society. He is the highest judge of the embroidery category of Chinese arts and crafts, and the highest judge of arts and crafts.
Compared with many honors, she also has a special identity of the world's top ten rare treasure civilizations - the only restored artist of Mawangdui embroidery!
Li Yan, a master of Chinese arts and crafts
The embroidery lady is exquisitely skilled, and the artist's painting and embroidery are both outstanding
Li Yan graduated from the Oil Painting Major of the Art Department of Hunan Normal University, with a profound art foundation and artistic accomplishment, on the basis of inheriting embroidery design and stitching, she has created new varieties of Chinese embroidery such as painting and embroidery combined embroidery, three-dimensional embroidery, oil painting fully different embroidery, light and shadow contemporary works.
In addition, she also developed four new stitching methods of curly hair needle, sweat hair needle, fluff needle and hair needle, compared with the traditional embroidery lady, Master Li Yan painted and embroidered double perfectly, and the comprehensive quality was outstanding. The master was specially invited to carry out the restoration of the embroidered cultural relics of Mawangdui.
With unique artistic literacy and super talent, coupled with the spirit of hard work and non-giving up. Finally, it lived up to expectations and successfully restored the embroidery of Mawangdui. Therefore, his merits were awarded the honor of "the first person to paint and embroider in a thousand years".
Cultural relics "resurrected" Qingshi orderly
Since the founding of New China,
There are three great artists,
Because of its protection of Chinese cultural relics,
Millennium civilization,
Recognized and respected by the state.
Saving and resurrecting cloisonné culture;
Because of the guardianship and inheritance of the "soul of the Silk Road",
Chang Shana, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Saving Dunhuang Culture;
Because of the resurrection of the Chinese Horse King's embroidery,
Li Yan, who rewrote the history of Chinese embroidery.
The restoration of cultural relics is by no means accidental, behind this is Master Li Yan's dedication and pursuit of art, but also the responsibility and responsibility of an embroidery practitioner for the chinese thousand-year-old embroidery context.