Qingyang sachet embroidery

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Qingyang City is located in the eastern part of the Northwest. The climate environment of the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River and the natural environment of mountains, plateaus, hills, ridges and steep mountains are not only suitable for the survival of various organisms, but also suitable for agricultural, animal husbandry, forestry and other production activities. It is the place where ancient humans reproduced and lived. Located in the hinterland of Dongzhiyuan, Xifeng District of Qingyang City is the birthplace of the ancient Zhou ancestor Gong Liu who taught people to farm and created China's farming culture. The ethnic flag worship objects of the ancient multi-ethnic settlements that intersected and collided with each other have been flexibly preserved in the form of folk concepts. The multi-structured innate geographical environment has formed a special humanistic environment. Coupled with closed factors such as transportation and economy, the traditional handicraft of Qingyang sachet embroidery has relatively constant maintained its original ancient and simple and pure colors. Qingyang sachet embroidery is a needlework art born from primitive consciousness and folk mentality. It is highly random and meaningful, with obvious characteristics of exaggeration, deformation, and naivety. The configuration is simple and rustic, the embroidery is rough and honest, with relief and wild charm, giving people a sense of beauty of primitive life. The shapes are varied and varied. They are not only the inheritance of the primitive and traditional manual skills of Qingyang women from generation to generation, but also the reproduction of personal skills and wisdom. It is a pure handicraft that combines three-dimensional modeling art and flat embroidery. The production techniques and skills are divided into four categories: chou chou, thread coil, three-dimensional embroidery, and flat embroidery. Each production link forms its own system. Chuchu is also known as Tibetan needle embroidery, which has the opposite aesthetic angle to embroidery. The characteristic of the technique is to hide the needle and thread, and the highest skill is to shape the object in a perfect way without seeing the needle and thread. The thread coiling technique is a unique artistic expression of the common custom of making zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival in China. The "zongzi" made of pentagonal diamonds with various colored lines is worn and given as gifts during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is hung at the door to express peace and tranquility. It is a cultural legacy of the ancient Chinese philosophical thought of harmony between yin and yang and the five elements. The production of three-dimensional objects is the most complex and varied category in the Qingyang sachet embroidery series, including nearly 400 single-sided pendants, pendants, double-sided pendants, three-dimensional pendants and ornaments. The process of craftsmanship involves a process of composition, shaping, embroidery, color dyeing, stitching, and results. It pays attention to meaning and spirit, and does not strictly require the image of the object. The bright red and green colored objects give people a strong visual impact. The embroidery of three-dimensional objects mostly uses needlework such as straight needle, mixed needle, stretched needle, puff needle, and picking thread. The thread material is cotton thread for ordinary products and silk thread for fine products. The outstanding feature of flat embroidery is different from the four famous Chinese embroidery. The style is thick and solemn, and the thickness reveals the timelessness. There are three types of embroidery: broken thread embroidery, combined thread embroidery, and picking embroidery. The main needlework methods include straight needle, braid needle, sewing needle, mixed needle, grabbing needle, pulling needle, plate gold, dot gold, circle gold, etc. In addition to the above four categories, more are used in daily life and weddings and birthdays. It is a traditional culture for the masses to beautify their lives. Qingyang sachet embroidery has a long history, a large inheritance group, a wide region, a variety of types, and a variety of shapes. The Chinese medicine formula loaded in the sachet is a mass inheritance of the ancient Chinese medical health care activities in the hometown of Qi Bo, and provides valuable humanistic research materials for studying the occurrence and continuation of traditional Chinese medicine and re-examining the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival customs and the historical origins of medical hygiene in China. However, with the expansion of the market scale of the Sachet Festival and the Sachet Cultural Industry for several consecutive years, productions that follow market trends have replaced the original creations based on folk customs. A large number of products that have entered the market have abandoned content themes whose historical and traditional cultural values have not yet been understood and whose market acceptance has not been good. As a result, masterpieces with local cultural characteristics that can represent the Chinese nation have become neglected and are in danger of extinction. They urgently need to be studied, discovered and protected.

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