Which four embroideries are the four famous embroideries of China?

The Four Famous Embroideries of China are Xiang embroidery from Hunan Province in central China, Shu embroidery from Sichuan Province in western China, Cantonese embroidery from Guangdong Province in southern China and Suzhou embroidery from Jiangsu Province in eastern China.

1, Hunan embroidery

Changsha City, Hunan Province, specialty, China National Geographic Indication products.

Xiang embroidery is one of the four famous embroideries in China, and it is the general name of Hunan embroidery products with distinctive characteristics of Hunan and Chu culture centered in Changsha, Hunan Province, which originated from Hunan folk embroidery, and developed by absorbing the advantages of Suzhou embroidery and Guangdong embroidery, and has a history of more than 2,000 years.

Xiang embroidery is characterized by rich coloring, embroidery as a painting, the folk have Su cat, Hunan tiger said. Hunan embroidery lion and tiger hair lines just straight up, eyeballs have God, a few can be messed up, has developed into a different color, different shape, different side of the double-sided full different embroidery.

2, Shu embroidery

Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, a specialty of China's national geographic indications products.

Shu embroidery, also known as "Sichuan embroidery", is one of the four famous embroideries in China, along with Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, is a traditional Chinese craft of embroidering patterns on silk or other fabrics using silk threads. As one of the embroideries with the longest heritage in China, Shu embroidery has formed its own unique flavor with its bright and clear colors and exquisite and delicate stitches, and its richness ranks first among the four famous embroideries.

Shu embroidery uses soft satin and colored silk as the main raw materials, and the needlework includes 122 kinds of 12 categories. It is characterized by rigorous stitching, flush stitching, rich changes, vivid images and three-dimensionality.

3. Cantonese embroidery

It is the general name of Guangzhou embroidery (Canton embroidery) and Teochew embroidery (Chaozhou embroidery), and it is one of the four famous embroideries in China.

The technique of Cantonese embroidery emphasizes the combination of material shape and quality, and there are four major categories: silk velvet embroidery, gold and silver thread embroidery, thread embroidery and bead embroidery. Silk velvet embroidery uses silk as the embroidery material and is highly expressive. It is the variety of Cantonese embroidery with the longest history and the most complete inheritance of skills.

4, Suzhou embroidery

is one of China's outstanding national traditional crafts, is a general term for embroidery products in Suzhou.

It originated in the area of Wu County, Suzhou, and is now spread throughout Wuxi, Changzhou and other places. Embroidery and sericulture, silk reeling is inseparable, so embroidery, also known as silk embroidery. Suzhou embroidery has a beautiful pattern, clever ideas, embroidery, meticulous, lively needlework, colorful and elegant unique style, rich local characteristics.

Su embroidery to the Suzhou Embroidery Institute of High-tech Zone of Zhenhu Town (now changed to the street) embroidery is the most famous. Zhenhu is the main birthplace of Suzhou embroidery, and 80% of the products in Suzhou embroidery come from Zhenhu.

Expanded Information

Embroidery, as a geographically widespread handicraft, has its own specialties and strengths in each country and ethnic group through long-term accumulation and development.

The name of the four famous embroideries was formed in the middle of the nineteenth century, and besides its own artistic characteristics, another important reason for its emergence is the result of the commercialization of embroidery. Due to the market demand and embroidery origin of different, embroidery crafts as a commodity began to form their own local characteristics. And the four places of Suzhou, Shu, Guangdong, Hunan embroidery products are particularly wide sales, particularly influential, so there are "four famous embroidery".

In addition to the four famous embroidery, in China there are Beijing embroidery, Lu embroidery, Bian embroidery, Ou embroidery, Hangzhou embroidery, Han embroidery, Min embroidery and other local embroidery, and China's ethnic minorities, such as Uygur, Yi, Dai, Buyei, Kazakstan, Yao, Miao, Tujia, Jingpo, Dong, Bai, Zhuang, Mongolia, Tibet and so on, have their own characteristics of national embroidery.

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