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Batik, the traditional production method is to use a special wax knife, dipped in melted beeswax in a piece of white cloth of varying sizes to draw a variety of patterns and designs, and then painted white cloth dipped in the dyeing tank dyeing, and then dyed the color of the cloth through the boiling water to remove the wax of water rinsing and spreading flat to dry, it will be a piece of colorful batik flower cloth. Due to the strong adhesion of beeswax, it is easy to solidify and crack. Therefore, when batik is used, the dyeing liquid will penetrate along the cracks, leaving a natural ice pattern that is difficult to depict artificially, showing a fresh and natural beauty. There are geometric patterns and natural patterns, and some of them can be traced back to the patterns of copper drums. The natural patterns are very vivid and evocative, using the most pomegranates, peonies, ferns and other flowers and plants, as well as butterflies, bats, magpies and other flies. Regardless of the pattern, the layout is mostly symmetrical and varied, the composition is mostly exaggerated and appropriate, and the lines are very smooth and natural, full of rich life flavor, implying people's good wishes and showing people's rich imagination and ingenuity.

The traditional dyeing of batik is done by dipping in indigo liquid, showing the effect of blue and white. Due to the coordination of points, lines and surfaces, the proper spacing of guests and masters, the size of the blue and white, and the naturally occurring changes in the reality of the ice pattern, the blue flowers on a white background or the white flowers on a blue background look even more elegant and elegant, and even more rich in flavor.

Miao wax dyeing legend

Miao is China's only a few population of more than 5 million ethnic minorities, but also one of China's most ancient ethnic groups, whose history goes back to the ancient times to Chi as the representative of the Miao barbarians group, and even earlier Jiu Li and the three Miao. Miao people have their own colorful national culture and folk arts and crafts skills, including batik art works and batik tourism crafts in the entire dyeing and weaving art world renowned, unique color.

Batik, anciently known as wax val, is known as one of the three major printing techniques in ancient China along with stranded val (tie-dyeing) and pinch val (openwork printing). China's dyeing and weaving crafts have been developed to a large extent as early as in the Western Zhou Dynasty (ll century BC - 771 BC). According to the Rites of Passage and other documents, the dyeing of fabrics was supervised by a special official called "Dyeing Man", and the state of Chu also had a special "Blue Yin" official in charge of the production of indigo. It is clear that the silk weaving and dyeing process at that time was quite large-scale. Batik should actually be called "wax anti-dyeing", which is a wax pattern painted on natural fiber fabrics such as hemp, silk, cotton, wool, etc., and then put into the indigo dye tank suitable for dyeing at low temperatures for dyeing, and the place where there is wax can not be dyed with the color, remove the wax that is, the wax is protected by the beautiful white flowers. It is not rare if it is only white flowers on blue ground, it is no different from blue printed cloth. The soul of batik is "ice pattern", which is a kind of dyeing pattern caused by uneven penetration of dyes due to the folding and bursting of wax blocks, and it is a kind of pattern texture with abstract colors. Batik has a long history as an ancient anti-dyeing process in China. As early as in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the ancestors of Miao, Yao, Buyei and other minorities in Southwest China (the tribes of the Southern Barbarians Group) have mastered the batik technique. According to Guizhou Tongzhi, "wax was used to paint flowers on the cloth and dye it, and when the wax was removed, the patterns were like paintings", and this kind of batik cloth was once known as "appendicled cloth", and because it is mainly produced in China, it is a kind of abstract color pattern texture. This kind of batik cloth was once called "Rangan Zebu", and because it was mainly produced in the Miao and Yao regions, it was also called "Yaoi Zebu" (the Yao people were also known as "ballad", "Yaoi", "shaking" and "猺" in ancient times). Batik flower cloth dyed with indigo, with white flowers on a green background, has a strong ethnic flavor and local flavor, and is a unique flower of national art in China.

The Miao originally excelled in spinning hemp and weaving cloth, and the weaved cloth can be dyed into various colors of blue, red, yellow and black by using the herbs of polygonum, safflower, gardenia and five times as much. Miao's batik has long history, Song dynasty five stream area "point wax mantle" (batik) has been very prevalent. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Miao people in Qianzhong also used batik clothing. In many places in the Miao area, there is a popular "batik song" (ancient song), sung from generation to generation, recounting the story of the origin of batik: there is a smart and beautiful Miao girl is not satisfied with the uniform color of the clothes, and always hope to dye all kinds of flower patterns on the skirt, but one by one, hand-painted is really too much trouble, but she could not think of any good way to do, and moped about it for the rest of the day. One day, the girl again looked at a cluster of flowers for a long time flabbergasted, not out of the way but in deep thought in a drowsy sleep. In a haze, a beautifully dressed flower fairy took her to a hundred gardens, there are countless exotic flowers, birds and flowers, butterflies and bees busy. The girl was so mesmerized by the garden that she didn't even know that bees were crawling all over her dress. When she woke up, she realized that she had just fallen asleep, but when she looked down again, the bees had really just flown away from the flowers, and had left her dress speckled with nectar and beeswax, which was very unattractive. She had to take the bodice to the dye bucket where the indigo was stored, and tried to dye the bodice once more to try to cover the wax stains. After it was dyed, it was taken back to the boiling water to bleach out the floating colors. When the girl took the dress out of the boiling water, a miracle occurred: beautiful white flowers appeared on the dark blue dress where the beeswax had stained it! The girl's heart was moved, and she immediately got beeswax, boiled it down and drew a wax flower pattern on the white cloth with a twig, then put it into the indigo dyeing solution, and finally melted the beeswax with boiling water, and all kinds of white flowers appeared on the surface of the cloth, and, oh, it was a miracle! The girl was so happy that she sang a mountain song. People heard the girl's song and came to her house to listen to her dream in the hundred gardens, watch her dyeing flower dresses and learn her skill of tracing flowers and drawing, and when they returned to their own homes, they all dyed a variety of flower cloths according to the method taught by the girl. From then on, the technique of batik has been spread among the Miao and the Buyi, Yao and other ethnic groups with which they live in mixed communities.

Since Batik can dye cloth with white flowers on a blue background, why has no one ever seen folk Batik cloth with white flowers on a red background, white flowers on a yellow background, or white flowers on a green background (modern dyeing techniques are fully capable of doing this)? This is because indigo dyeing belongs to the redox reaction, only need in ordinary cold water can be carried out; And safflower pigment and gardenia yellow pigment and other plant dyes can only be in the higher temperature of the hot water can be on the dyeing of cotton, otherwise it is very easy to lose color. And in this high temperature beeswax has melted, can not maintain the flower shape to prevent dyeing, so ancient times is very difficult to make other colors of batik flower cloth to.