Huangmei pick flower, also known as shelf flower, cross pick flower, is to take the green daisy cloth as the base, with a needle to pick the colorful silk thread on the bottom cloth, the weft cross the grid, forming a kind of color and exquisite pattern of a craft, long-term circulation in the Huangmei folk, with strong local characteristics and national style.
In May 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection list announced by the State Council.
The origin of the yellow plum pick flower
Huangmei picks flowers have a long history, according to legend, originated in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, developed and matured in the Ming and Qing dynasties, rooted in labor life, is the crystallization of the hard work and wisdom of the working women of the past dynasties and the portrayal of the beautiful soul.
Huangmei women are ingenious, there is a tradition of doing needlework, the girl who can pick flowers and embroidery flowers is praised, Huangmei eldest sister "pick flowers such as patches" and "sew poor and mend the damage", in the damaged parts of the clothes with needles and threads to pick up regular patterns, so that the damaged places appear beautiful, and finally formed a unique local characteristics of Huangmei pick flowers.
Yellow plum picking process
Huangmei picks flowers belong to the category of picking, mending and embroidering a kind of folk embroidery, which is based on the self-spinning, self-weaving and self-dyeing Yuanqing cloth, and the colorful silk thread is embroidered on the grid of the warp and weft of the base cloth with a needle, forming a pattern with gorgeous color and luster and meaning auspiciousness.
Yellow plum pick flower use
There are many kinds of Huangmei flowers, there are more than 40 kinds of common ones, according to the use can be divided into four categories: clothing supplies, interior decoration, bed goods and wedding tokens, which are widely used in the people, especially in life rituals such as birth ceremonies, weddings, funeral customs, use more frequently.
The difference between yellow plum picking flowers and cross-stitch
Huangmei picking flowers is a unique folk craft in ancient China, the pursuit of god-like, focusing on freehand, focusing on expressiveness. Huangmei picks flowers to take the road of folklore and nationalization, pursuing simplicity, primitiveness and harmony, focusing on abstract beauty.
Huangmei picks flowers must rely on manual stitches and threads, mainly for family life, so its works are rarely circulated in the society.
Huangmei picks flowers in the pattern composition, in addition to symmetrical, rotating, centripetal, radial, there are a lot of patterns that express a certain storyline, this pattern does not comply with the law, there is no certain regulations, all up to the artist to increase or decrease the number of needles at will, but not out of the unique program of the natural formation of the folk.
Huangmei picks flowers pay attention to special stitching, with four kinds of cross needles, straight needles, half needles, and pull needles. No matter which stitch method, the front and back sides are very neat, the same pattern can be seen, and there is no needle and thread joint on the back, which is very flat.
Cross-stitch comes from Europe, is a foreign product, the pursuit of similarity, pay attention to the image of lifelike. Take the road of popularization and marketization, pursue modernity and truth, and focus on concrete beauty.
Cross-stitch is now mostly made using semi-mechanical machines, and its products are very common in the market. The cross-stitch pattern is reproduced on the basis of photographs or pictures, and it has a strong commercial atmosphere.
The front stitch of the cross-stitch is flat, but due to the different processes, the reverse side is messy stitches, multiple joints and unevenness, and the pattern is also messy.
Cultural heritage
The inheritance of Huangmei picking flowers is different from other handicrafts. In the feudal era, picking flowers and embroidering flowers was a matter in the daughter's room, which was generally passed on orally from the mother to the daughter and the mother-in-law to the daughter-in-law in a relatively closed state, so its teacher-teacher relationship was limited to the female circle. With the development of the times, the relationship between concubines, sisters, sisters-in-law, and neighbors and sisters in the same village has become a relationship of mutual learning and mentorship.
For a long time, leaders and departments at all levels in Huangmei County have adhered to the policy of "protection first, rescue first, rational utilization, inheritance and development", attached great importance to the inheritance, development and protection and utilization of Huangmei flowers, found and cultivated talents for flower picking, and vigorously promoted the industrialization of flower picking; At the same time, Huangmei flower artists concentrate on art and strive to innovate. With the joint efforts of the whole society, the ancient craft technology of picking flowers has regained its brilliance, and it has also gone abroad and is famous all over the world.