Dong Embroidery

Guizhou
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Dong embroidery is a form of craft that combines appreciation and practicality. The embroidery is not only beautifully designed and has a high decorative value, but its repeated embroidery process can also increase the durability of clothing. Dong embroidery is a product of farming culture. There are also some unique accessories that serve as embellishments on Dong embroidery. For example, the accessories used by the Miao people include thick golden paper, copper sheets and glass. Most of these accessories are round, and sometimes square and triangular. When embroidered on the pattern, it can fill the space, form lines, and use its color to increase the brilliance of clothing. When the girls wear these costumes and dance during festivals, people can see the folds on the clothes from a distance. Southeast Guizhou is a place that is difficult to reach and has a strong mysterious atmosphere. The Dong people have lived there for generations and created an extremely splendid culture. Whether it is the material wind and rain bridge, stilt house, ancient well, ancient post road, or the intangible Dong opera, Dong song, and Dong embroidery, they all have fatal attraction. Especially the Dong embroidery, which is simple and natural with bright colors. Dong embroidery is a branch of the excellent cultural heritage of ethnic minorities. After it is industrialized, it can benefit more than 40,000 ethnic minority people in Tongle, and at the same time solve the employment problem of about 10,000 women. The project invests a certain amount of funds to industrialize embroidery, which plays an important role in standardizing the embroidery industry, inheriting and promoting national culture, and is one of the effective measures to promote the development of Tongle's spiritual civilization. Dong embroidery is a craft form that combines appreciation and practicality. The embroidery not only has exquisite patterns and high decorative value, but also its repeated embroidery process can increase the durability of clothing. Dong embroidery is a product of farming culture. Dong embroidery is an intangible cultural heritage of Guangxi. This traditional craft that integrates textile, printing and dyeing, paper cutting and embroidery is mastered by many local women. Tongle Township in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County is inhabited by Miao, Dong, Yao, Zhuang, Han and other ethnic groups. They have created an extremely brilliant culture here. Whether it is the material wind and rain bridges and stilt houses, or the intangible Dong opera, Dong embroidery and Miao embroidery, they are all attractive. Since ancient times, the people here have been wearing very distinctive clothes, especially Dong women, who wear self-woven white headscarves on their heads and double-breasted flowered clothes on their upper bodies. The cuffs on both sides are inlaid with wide lace, and the feet and forks of the clothes are equipped with lace, which is divided into layers. There is another chest pocket on the chest, because it is the place where the skills can be best displayed. There are extremely many patterns, some of which are embroidered with double dragons grabbing treasures, some are embroidered with money gourds, some are embroidered with peonies and wealth, and some are embroidered with peacocks and other patterns. These are Dong embroidery with strong primitive interest. There are many works of art of Dong embroidery, including headscarf patterns, baby slings, women's chest pockets, cloth flower shoes, insoles, pipes, shoulder bags and other embroidery. (No pictures available, please provide them.) (No pictures available, please provide them.)

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