Some people say: The history of the Miao people is worn on their bodies. Since there are no words, the embroidery on clothing has become a carrier for the Miao compatriots to inherit their culture. From creation myths to heroic epics, from mountains and rivers to vegetation and livestock, from history to life, Miao embroidery is an encyclopedia of the Miao people.
“As long as I can remember, I have watched my mother do Qing Miao embroidery.” Miao woman Lu Yinfei is from Qian Minglu, Nayong County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province He is the general manager of the Miao Embroidery Inheritance Development Co., Ltd. and is also the municipal intangible inheritor of Miao costumes. She has been learning Miao embroidery from her mother since she was 6 years old. The Qing Miao are the smallest of the four Miao branches in Nayong County. They live in the mountains and forests. They are a “ethnic group left behind in the mountains and forests.” They used needles as pens and threads as ink to embroider their migration memories on their clothes.
Lu Yinfei introduced that Qingmiao embroidery techniques include yarn embroidery, paper-cut embroidery, weaving embroidery, batik embroidery, collage embroidery, roll yarn embroidery, rolling embroidery, etc. Embroidery, pan embroidery, etc. include “tribe emblem” animal patterns with totemic meanings, such as ox, dragon, phoenix, fish, etc. Each pattern represents a different meaning.
“I am confident that our Qingmiao culture will be well inherited, promoted and developed.” Now using the company’s platform, Lu Yinfei has transformed the village into Miao women organized themselves to produce Miao embroidery cultural and creative products, which brought a lot of economic income to everyone.
In order to better inherit and promote the excellent traditional culture of Miao embroidery, Bijie City actively encourages inheritors to adopt a family-style approach, mentoring apprentices, and building workshops Carry out the inheritance of Miao embroidery and batik skills through other methods. There are 14 representative inheritors of Miao embroidery at or above the municipal level in the city. Each person is subsidized with inheritance funds of 5,000 yuan per year. There are also irregular intangible cultural heritage funds at all levels to support the development of Miao embroidery.
What is national is what belongs to the world. Today’s characteristic Miao embroidery is both culture and industry. There are nearly one million Miao compatriots in Bijie City, who promote rural revitalization while inheriting and promoting traditional culture. Here, the traditional ethnic culture represented by Miao embroidery is facing unprecedented development opportunities.
In the twelfth lunar month, the spirit of the new year is getting stronger. In the Miao embroidery shop in Huawu Village, Qianxi, Bijie, there are pieces of exquisite handmade Miao embroidery clothing and special trinkets. There is a dazzling array of products; workers in the poverty alleviation workshop are busy running stitches and rushing to make orders.
You Huazhong, the person in charge of the workshop, said: “This is an industry that leads the masses to increase their income and become rich, and it must be made bigger and stronger. In 2021, the poverty alleviation workshop will receive We have placed orders for more than 1,000 sets of Miao costumes, with an output value of nearly 3 million yuan. We are currently building a 1,000-square-meter Miao embroidery production workshop, which will significantly increase our production capacity after it is put into operation. We are also cooperating with a clothing production company in Huadu District, Guangzhou to explore Integrate Miao embroidery elements into fashionable clothing to make Miao embroidery products attract more consumers.”
Xiao Tuoruo, Dazhai Village, Guanzhai Township, Zhijin County In the Miao village, embroiderers gather in groups, either sitting around and communicating, or sitting around doing embroidery. Cai Qunzheng, the intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Miao embroidery, goes from house to house, instructing the embroiderers on their stitching techniques and making phone calls to discuss orders. The Caiqun Miao Batik Embroidery Co., Ltd. she founded has just successfully signed an order worth 5 million yuan.
Cai Qun was very excited when talking about his Miao embroidery career. General Secretary Xi Jinping praised Miao embroidery when he visited Guizhou on the eve of the Spring Festival last year: Miao embroidery is both traditional and fashionable. You embroider it stitch by stitch, how wonderful it is! The embroiderers were all inspired and their confidence increased greatly. Today, their Miao embroidery products are not only popular in surrounding counties and cities, but also exported to Shanghai, Guangdong and overseas markets. “This craft passed down from our ancestors is very valuable! It can help us live a good life. My daughter will also learn and inherit Miao embroidery in the future!” Cai Qun said.
Currently, embroiderers in Xiaotuoluo Miao Village can earn an average of about 4,000 yuan a month. During peak seasons, young and skillful embroiderers can earn 1 Ten thousand yuan is not new.
At the 2021 Shenzhen Cultural Expo, Bijie City built an exhibition hall with the theme of “Blessed Land·Sea of Flowers Bijie”. Miao embroidery and other ethnic cultural creations The products were loved and paid attention to by the exhibitors. Zhang Min, member of the Standing Committee of the Qianxi Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department of Bijie City, said that as an embroidery skill inherited by the Miao people, Miao embroidery has fine workmanship and complex craftsmanship. It is famous for its beautiful composition, strong national style, and rich colors, and is known as It’s called “advanced customization” hidden in the mountains.
In 2021, Qianxi also increased its support for the Miao traditional clothing industry, and supported Miao embroidery and other “intangible cultural heritage” inheritors through multiple channels to establish Miao traditional clothing. In the production workshop, sewing machines, computer embroidery machines and other equipment are introduced to combine traditional skills with modern craftsmanship, and traditional Miao embroidery is full of vitality. At present, 33 Miao traditional clothing production workshops have been established in Xinren, Honglin, Linquan and other towns. Ordered products are sold online and offline to markets inside and outside the province, becoming a cultural industry for local Miao villagers to increase their income and become rich.
According to the person in charge of the Bijie City Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, the city has now incorporated Miao embroidery and other traditional culture into extracurricular practices in schools in towns where the Miao population is concentrated. Activities, and regular arrangements are made for inheritors to give intensive lectures. Encourage Miao families to educate their children to love Miao culture from an early age and make Miao embroidery and batik essential skills. They have also established Miao embroidery intangible cultural heritage exhibition halls in villages where the Miao embroidery industry has developed, and set up experience areas and sales areas to attract tourists to participate in the experience. At the same time, �Use methods such as online live broadcasts to let more young consumers know Miao embroidery, a cultural masterpiece in the mountains of Guizhou.
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