Representative schools of flower picking

Huang Meihua picking, also known as cross picking, is widely spread in Huangmei County, Hubei Province. For a long time, this craft has been perfected by the painstaking research of generations of peasant women, and its distinctive colors and exquisite pattern ideas highlight its unique artistic expression. Huangmei embroidery belongs to the category of picking, mending and embroidering, which is a long-term and widely circulated folk craft in Huangmei County, Hubei Province. Rich in content, diverse in variety, exquisite in design and rich in color, with strong local style and national characteristics.

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According to legend, Huang Meihua picking originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties and matured in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. According to the records of Huangmei County Records, as early as the Song Dynasty, Huangmei had very exquisite flower picking skills. 1958, in the tomb of Ming Jiajing excavated at the foot of Caishan Mountain in Huangmei County (A.D. 156 1), the female corpse in the tomb was covered with double peach square towels embroidered with colorful patterns, which can prove that the folk craft of Huangmei embroidery has a history of at least 500 years.

Huang Meihua picking is called color picking by many domestic folk craft research experts. The colorful flowers in the rural cotton area of Li Bai and Huangmei are more exquisite, colorful and full of local characteristics. There is a local proverb that Huangmei has both women and flowers. Caishan, Xinkai, Kong Long and other places have the most prosperous flower picking skills. As soon as a girl is sensible, she will follow her mother or aunt to do needlework until she gets married. The locals call a girl who can't pick flowers a slap in the face, which is a shame for the girl.

Artistic feature

Huangmei flower picking is different from ordinary embroidery, which emphasizes pricking and flower picking.

An embroidery made by a peasant girl on navy blue cloth is made by cross-stitch with colored silk thread with white cotton thread as the grain skeleton according to the pattern passed down from generation to generation. Among them, cross stitch is called X stitch and plain stitch is called plain stitch.

The flower-picking patterns of Huangmei include group flowers, edge flowers, filling flowers, corner flowers and lace. Patterns and shapes are very different. Wide range of materials, ingenious ideas, such as group flowers, wealth and longevity, dragons and phoenixes, etc. There are two dragons playing with pearls and eight immortals crossing the sea. There are turtledove pomegranate, dragon boat race and so on. Corner flowers have no certain format, and most of them are figures, cypress leaves and lotus flowers, forming triangular patterns placed at the four corners; Edge flowers are mainly connected by two sides, and are often used as lace for scarves with flowers. The breakdown is as follows:

Group Flowers: Phoenix Peony, Longevity Peach, Four Seasons Domino Flower, Carp yue longmen, Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang, Carp Crossing Lotus, Feng Dan Chaoyang, Enge Flat Peach, Domino Playing, Egret Playing Lotus, Phoenix Chasing Phoenix, Ten Brocades, Magpie Playing Plum, Four Tigers Drilling Mountain, Colorful Palace Lantern and so on.

Side flowers: send children to the Queen Mother, seven fairies, seven girls send children, heavenly girls scatter flowers, Fulu Xi Shou, two dragons play pearls, two lions climb the ball, two tigers come out of the hole, the champion swims the streets, Yuanmen beheads, Mu is in command, female generals array, Hunan plays lotus, makes love in Taoyuan, eight immortals cross the sea, marries a daughter-in-law, and four phoenixes love flowers.

Flower stuffing: butterfly melon, turtledove pomegranate, lotus domino, dragon boat paddling, Dysosma, vase lotus, lotus copper coin heart, pomegranate flower, longevity, happiness, gossip flower, fish, birds, people, etc.

Horned flowers: word flowers, cypress flowers, lotus flowers, etc.

Edge flowers: multi-purpose characters, butterflies, ducks, clouds, wishful patterns, silkworm heads (small triangles), jasmine buds (long hexagons), dog teeth (zigzag), melon seeds and rice (regular hexagons) and so on.

The expression technique is concise, highly exaggerated and deformed, highly stylized and geometric; The objects depicted are dragons and phoenixes, flowers and birds, people and animals, insects and fish, utensils and a small amount of words; The contents reflected are auspicious and rich marriage, entertainment, opera stories and so on; There are two kinds of picking methods: single-sided picking and double-sided picking, and the same patterns on both sides are picked by stunt needling; There are nearly 40 kinds, from quilt cover and curtain to sachet and garter, which are all part of the articles worn by women and children in daily life and bedroom, and some of them are used for women's articles that men need, such as wallets, belts, tobacco bags or tokens of love. Huang Mei's flower picking works express people's feelings and entrust people's ideals through patterns and words, some of which contain different meanings respectively.

1, well-fed for more than a year. In Huangmei flower picking, "fish" is the homonym of "fish", which means abundance. "Carp" is the homonym of "profit", which means "more than good luck". Some connect "fish" with "lotus" and take the homonym of "lotus" and "fish", which means more than one year. "Dragon" is a totem worshipped by our ancestors. In the flower picking of Huangmei, the myth and legend that "dragon" can call the wind and rain symbolizes that after human beings conquer nature, the weather is favorable and the crops are abundant.

2. Love is faithful and marriage is happy. In addition to using "Yuanyang" as other folk arts to show that husband and wife will never separate and love each other, Huangmei has many unique moral expressions. For example, carp, magpie and crane are regarded as men, while phoenix, lotus and plum blossom are regarded as women, and they are combined into "good luck with dragons and phoenixes", "carp wearing lotus", "magpie climbing plum blossom" and "crane playing lotus", symbolizing the beautiful life and bright future of husband and wife loving each other and growing old together. In Huang Mei's Flowers Picking, some works simply express the yearning for a happy marriage and family through direct narration. For example, in the picture of The Wedding Banquet, more than 20 characters are connected in four rows with "S". The front row is covered with canopies, red lights and colorful flags, followed by sedan chairs. According to Huangmei custom, the first is the matchmaker, the second is the bride, and the third is the groom. Behind the house is a band of marriage and percussion, which vividly symbolizes the sweet love of the people from the warm atmosphere of drums and firecrackers.

3, exorcism town demon, rich and happy. In Huangmei's designs, dragons, phoenixes, lions, tigers and other animals that people worship and fear are widely used, which means driving away diseases and avoiding disasters, being safe, auspicious, prosperous and so on. If the lion is the king of beasts, it has the supreme power to subdue evil spirits; Tigers can be very powerful and have strong vitality; Dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, which can call the wind and rain; Phoenix stands for good luck. In ancient times, there was a saying that "the phoenix never falls into a land without treasure". There are also many auspicious plants for picking in Huang Meihua, such as lotus, which means many children; Bing Xu's love symbolizes the harmonious feelings of husband and wife and a happy marriage.

The main raw material for picking flowers in Huangmei is local homemade cloth, also called big cloth. This kind of cloth takes cyan as the background color, and the artist alternately picks and embroiders various patterns on it with a needle and a thread (seven colors). In terms of pattern composition, there are many patterns that express certain stories besides vertical, left-right symmetry (such as "Golden Melon" by Hua) and rotation (such as playing lotus with a crane and chasing a phoenix). ), centripetal type (such as Fushou Shuangtao, Baihua, etc. ) and radial (such as Dysosma, Bagua and so on. ). For example, seven women sent their children, the top scholar paraded the streets, Mu took the lead, and Taoyuan became sworn. This kind of pattern does not obey the rules, and increases or decreases the number of stitches at will by art, but it does not break away from the unique procedures naturally formed by the people and produces a unique composition effect. A painting is a story, and a painting is a history. This extremely rare and unique artistic expression originated in Huangmei, because Huangmei is the hometown of China traditional drama.

Huangmei embroidery is embroidered with colored threads, and colored silk threads are selected on the grid where the warp and weft of the base fabric intersect with the needles to form a colorful and three-dimensional pattern.

In color processing, except for a few monochromatic embroidery, they are basically embroidered with colored lines. Huangmei embroidery takes blue coarse cloth as the background color, white as the basic skeleton, red, pink and light red as the main colors, and orange and light yellow as the background color, forming the warm colors of the works. In the meantime, some cool colors such as lake blue and plain green may be embellished to make the whole work beautiful but not bright, warm but not dry, and show harmony in complexity. It not only strengthens the color contrast, but also enriches the level of change. In addition, the works are mostly based on the deep sapphire blue. The exquisite craftsmanship and simple patterns make the whole work gorgeous, steady, colorful, fresh, calm and smooth, giving people an elegant, simple and holy feeling.

Huangmei Carving 1938 won the gold medal of Panama World Expo; 1954 won medals and prizes in Polish art exhibition and medals in Polish socialist national folk arts and crafts exhibition; 1956 won the first prize of the first folk arts and crafts exhibition in Hubei province; 1959 Among many Hubei handicrafts, Premier Zhou Enlai personally chose it to decorate the Hubei Hall of the Great Hall of the People. Since the reform and opening up, Huangmei Diaohua, as a national and Hubei handicraft, has toured abroad for many times, and has been favored by the vast audience and customers and highly praised by experts and scholars from all walks of life. It is called silent lyric poetry and three-dimensional Chinese painting. 1990 won the silver prize of "the first national light industry exposition"; 199 1 won the gold medal in the second Beijing International Expo; In 2006, it was listed as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture. At the same time, Huangmei Opera, another intangible cultural heritage declared by Huangmei County, was also selected at the national level, making Huangmei County the only county in China with two items selected as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Shi Jiumei, a flower picking artist in Xinkai Town, Huangmei County, was listed as the inheritor of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage Huangmei flower picking projects. 20 10 In mid-August, the protection of geographical indication products declared by "Huangmei Tiaohua" passed the expert review and will soon be approved by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. At the same time, the local standard "Technical Specification for Huangmei Carving" drafted by the County Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision and Huangmei Haixin Vocational and Technical Training School provides a basis for organizing production and sales acceptance. brief introduction

Huayao is located in Laohushan Yao Township, Xiaoshajiang Town, Dashuitian Township and Matangshan Township in the north of Longhui, with an altitude of1.300m and a population of more than 7,000.

Flower waist is a treasure of China traditional culture and a masterpiece of folk crafts. Flower waist flower is a unique handicraft of Yao women in Longhui County, Hunan Province. Longhui Yao is called Huayao because of the gorgeous flower picking on women's skirts.

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Huayao has a long history of picking flowers. Before the Han Dynasty, the flower picking of Huayao had risen. According to Ying Shao's "Custom Yi Tong" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the ancestors of Huayao built blocks, dyed them with grass and dressed them with five colors. Wei Zhi in the Tang Dynasty recorded in Sui Shu that there were various dragons in Changsha County, named Mo Yao, whose female was blue-shirted, with a spotted skirt and no shoes. This description is exactly the same as the woman who returned to Huayao today: colorful scarves, blue round necks, ribbons around her waist, colorful tube skirts and lace on her legs. Flowers were picked in their headscarves, collars, skirts, leggings, children's suspenders and skirts. Except for the back of the skirt, other places are generally colored embroidery. On the back of the skirt, all kinds of patterns are picked out with white lines on navy blue plaid cloth. Due to the large area of the back of the skirt, the size is generally about 100 cm long and 50-60 cm high, so the theme of the pattern is the richest, the theme is the most prominent and the cultural awareness is the most vivid. It is the essence of flower picking in Longhua Huayao.

Huayao has no figures, and flower picking has become an important carrier to record the history and culture of this nation. With profound cultural connotation, it is listed as a treasure by China Art Museum and National Museum. Mr. Shen Congwen, a famous writer in China, called it the best flower picking in the world. 1994, Huayao Tiaohua won the bronze medal in the China Folk Art Exhibition held by the Ministry of Culture, and won the gold medal in the first China Cultural Relics Imitation and Folk Craft Exhibition in 2003. Therefore, the Huxingshan Yao Township in Longhui County was named as the hometown of culture and art by the Hunan Provincial Department of Culture.

Artistic feature

Huayao has a wide range of materials, rich content, diverse forms and thousands of kinds. The theme of the main pattern can be divided into four categories: first, animals, of which snakes, dragons, birds, eagles, tigers and lions are the most common. Second, plants, mainly flowers and trees; Third, historical stories and historical figures, mainly showing the historical stories of Yao ancestors' resistance to foreign aggression; Fourth, daily life, such as reflecting the traditional customs of Huayao, making love to songs, getting married and so on.

The main pattern of flower waist embroidery is made of ordinary dark blue cloth with thick white lines, and the pattern is very rough in Gu Zhuo. Taking the intersection of the latitude and longitude of the cloth as the coordinate, the oblique needle is X-shaped, commonly known as cross, or in a straight line. It's basically a geometric figure. Its basic form is that several parallel long lines are juxtaposed, some are made into squares by adding horizontal lines between two parallel long lines, some are folded into U-shapes, some are made into single-line or double-line diamonds, some are covered with large squares in zigzag, and some are crossed into a net by multiple straight lines. If there is a big gap between various forms, pick small flowers to fill it. Common florets are X, #, X, mouth, back, V, dot and vortex.

There are many patterns of Huayao, and the most commonly used ones are: sun pattern, Wan Ziwen pattern, lantern pattern (also called pumpkin pattern), copper coin pattern, peony pattern, fern leaf pattern, furrow vine and so on. There is also one of the most commonly used flower-like patterns (called Hualuyan in Chinese), which imitates the pattern of a biological bacterium growing on a rock. It is said that the pattern of this Huadaoyan is particularly exposed every year. Miss Huayao regards this beautiful and auspicious pattern as the basic pattern of flower picking.

Huayao's flower picking technology is very particular, and the length of the hour hand and the tightness of the thread must be consistent. In dense places, the needles are placed together and there is no background color. Concise place, only a flower and a few lines. On both sides of the main pattern are colorful flowers embroidered with colorful silk threads such as red, yellow and green. The whole picture of flower picking is black and white, dense, dynamic and static, with sharp color contrast and strong visual impact.

Huayao picking flowers is unique in technology. It is completely different from machine embroidery and Xiang embroidery. You don't need to describe the design, and you don't need a mold to make an embroidery frame. You rely on the dexterous hands and skillful skills of flower pickers, and follow the longitude and latitude lines of homespun with your own composition and understanding of beauty. From the age of seven or eight, Huayao girl has been taught to pick flowers by her elders, and it will take several years to master the basic skills of picking flowers. Every girl carries an embroidery needle and thread with her, and uses the intermittent time of labor to pick flowers. Groups of flower picking girls can be seen everywhere in front of the diaojiao building, on the rocks by the stream and in the ancient forest. According to statistics, a skirt has more than 300,000 stitches, which takes 180 working days to complete.

Many historical figures and events are vividly represented in Hua Yao's Flowers Picking. For example, Lapras Crossing the Sea, Wang Pan Going to the Temple, and Langqiu (Yao language, meaning Tusi) Defending the Enemy. King Pan in Lapras Crossing the Sea, wearing a three-pointed crown, is full of heroic spirit, riding on the back of a dragon. The proud dragon held his head high, walking, whistling and blowing. The crown is elegant, and Longteng congratulates you from top to bottom. The sun on the head of King Pan and the phoenix flying on the faucet make the whole picture feel flying, which is very vivid and has deep historical connotation. In "King Pan Ascends to the Temple", King Pan sits in the temple in royal costume. Palace is a typical Yao architecture with unique style. The word "longevity" is written horizontally on the cornice palace, which means eternity. Shouzi is embroidered with rich flowers, and flags are planted on both sides, fluttering in the wind. Wang Pan has bamboo embroidered on both sides of his head, and Shuanglong embroidered on both sides of the temple column. The whole design is childish, expressing the good wishes of Yao ancestors who often suffer from war and live in poverty to pray for peace, auspiciousness and prosperity. Nirvana in fire Defending the Enemy directly shows the scene of Yao soldiers guarding their homes and bravely killing the enemy with realistic techniques. Langqiu rode on a horse, wearing a crown and armor, holding an arrow, and the head of the uninvited guest was under the horse. This design is not only a record of history, but also a tribute to heroes and a reverence for ancestors.

Flower picking in Huayao has profound cultural connotation. The religious beliefs, unique festivals and wedding customs of Huayao people have been fully reflected in many daily life of picking flowers with animals and Huayao. Among a large number of flowers with animals as the theme, snake patterns are the most abundant, including coiled snake, crossed snake, head-holding snake, tailless two-headed snake, snake-wrapped totem snake and so on, with hundreds of kinds. Moreover, snakes have different shapes and are full of whimsy. Such as Xunzi Snake, Bishi Snake, Spitting Snake, Gathering Snake, Double Snake Playing Beads, etc. Flower picking by Huayao gives these snakes spirituality. This is because Huayao has lived in a hot and humid environment for a long time, and there are many snakes, so he is very familiar with the habits of snakes. Snakes have the ability to swim, climb trees, drill into the ground, live long and starve, which is beyond the power of early humans. Therefore, Huayao is regarded as a spiritual thing, becoming the totem of Huayao tribe, similar to the worship of dragons by Han people.

The love songs and wedding songs in Huayao Picking Flowers are treasures, which vividly show Huayao's unique customs. Unfortunately, because of the difficulty of these flower picking techniques, they are on the verge of being lost, and only a few works are left, which is rare.

Huayao depicts the spirit of exquisite flowers, which is concise and vivid, with less and more, distinctive theme and great decoration. Bold exaggeration in modeling, bold choice, combination of realism and romanticism, extraction from natural images, processing to create vivid images, reflecting rich charm, resulting in unreasonable and harmonious beauty of grotesque taste, showing simple aesthetic feeling. When Yao women embroider animals, they often embroider small animals and flowers on animals, such as a tigress and a tiger. Or why do you choose flowers like this? You will get a witty and simple answer: tigers should have children and eat, so embroidered tigers are alive. This way of dissecting thinking is bold and romantic.

Huayao picks flowers to make wonderful artistic treatment and combination of different visual objects, and the composition is balanced or symmetrical. For example, using the pattern combination of trees and flowers to make the main pattern according to the geometric arrangement is neat and generous; Sometimes in an embroidery, dozens of patterns should be selected and combined into a main pattern freely and irregularly, or flowers should be hidden in flowers, or several birds and insects should be combined into flowers freely; Or a few birds with a wing. Such ingenious ideas make the whole pattern full of richness, form a lively atmosphere, fully reveal the theme, and achieve good decorative effect.

Huayao's flower picking is not only practical, but also pursues beautiful color decoration. Looking at colors from a distance and flowers from a distance, they like to use strongly exciting colors, such as bright red headdress hat (called Paitedian in Yao language) and headscarf (called children in Yao language), dark blue coat (called snow in summer), colorful belt (called special file in Yao language), and gray uniform floral skirt (called Dun in Yao language) set off one after another with two red skirts (called complement code in Yao language). If the headdress and dress are mainly grayish white and the color is dim, it is a dress to wear when mourning. brief introduction

Flower picking in Wangjiang County is a family handicraft skill that spreads in Wangjiang County. It originated in the Tang Dynasty and made sacrifices with hemp and hair as materials. In the late Tang Dynasty, using local cotton as raw material to produce clothes and home decoration products gradually formed a handicraft skill that every woman in every household must master.

Wangjiang flower picking is loved by Wangjiang people because of its exquisite composition, positive and negative interest, rich connotation, beautiful and practical, which has been passed down from generation to generation and has been preserved so far.

In the process of inheritance and development, Wangjiang embroidery has gradually formed four weaving techniques: picking, drilling, swimming and weaving. Composition elements come from life. In addition to various geometric figures, common plants include vines, flowers and fruits, stems and leaves, such as plum blossom, bamboo leaves, peony, golden melon, lotus flower, chrysanthemum, pomegranate, cypress and gardenia. Common animals are butterflies, bees, peacocks, happy birds, mandarin ducks, pine cranes and the Chinese zodiac. Other characters such as Taiji, Bagua, Palace Lantern, Sun, Moon, Stars, Clouds, Mountains, Water, Boat, Boat and Ruyi, Yuanbao, Money, Shouzi, Fuzi, Pleasant Goat, Ping 'an, etc. Other activities include life, production, games, celebrations, totems and religions.

Wangjiang picks flowers, inherits three points and creates seven points. There are rules and regulations and they are constantly changing. Pictographic and knowing, alone or in combination, flowers in flowers, etc. There are various forms of expression. Wangjiang's flower picking products are exquisite and elegant in color. They have been selected into Beijing for three times and become outstanding artistic decorations in the Great Hall of the People. He won many awards at various fairs and expositions, and his reputation spread far and wide.

Flower picking in Wangjiang has a profound cultural background, integrating artistry and practicality, and is a precious spiritual wealth of Wangjiang people. brief introduction

Huayao is a branch of Yao nationality, with a population of1.2000. It lives at the junction of Xupu and Longhui at the northern foot of Xuefeng Mountain at an altitude of1300m. Flower picking is a folk craft passed down from generation to generation by Huayao people. When making, Huayao women use indigo homespun as the carrier, and pick white or colored yarn into it through several needles. Huayao women have learned to pick flowers and make lifelong costumes since childhood.

Flower picking patterns of Huayao can be divided into color and black and white, and most of them are continuous and symmetrical. Themes include birds and animals, trees and flowers, the sun, the moon and stars, mountains and rivers and Yao's national totems and fairy tales. Rich in imagination, ingenious in conception and profound in connotation. When the bride gets married, she should put the wedding dress made of flowers on a big bamboo pole and put it on by her mother and aunt. The orange plate worn by the bride symbolizes the sun; The headband in the middle of the big plate symbolizes the moon; Surrounded by decorations symbolizing stars. Six pairs of red stripes and 12 pairs of yellow stripes on the skirt represent the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in the distance; Small patterns represent rivers, mountains, villages and villages. Flower-waisted people show the spiritual world of an ancient nation with their exquisite flowers. With the development of social economy, Huayao flower picking has become a tourism product and entered the market. brief introduction

The widespread spread of cotton textile technology in the Huangdaopo has formed the custom of widely planting cotton and spinning in Jiangnan and Luo Jing towns. Compared with the silk fabrics and embroidery used by the top dignitaries, homespun embroidery is more in line with the extensive clothing requirements of ordinary people. For a long time, the folk used patterns to decorate homespun clothing, used colored lines to "swim flowers", and then crossed with the "trend" of cloth to form patterns, which is "Luo Jing cross stitch". According to legend, it should have a history of at least 300 years in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Luo Jing cross-stitch flowers, which are taken on clothes or towels made of homespun, are used as decorative patterns of "pocket towel", "body hook", "belly pocket", "cloth skirt" and "vamp", especially "pocket towel" and "body hook", which are becoming more and more common in Jiangnan water towns. According to the field investigation records, the background color of "pocket towel" is different. Generally, elderly women often use dark homespun "pocket towel"; Girls and women use white, new wives must use green, and the patterns on them are all black; The pattern of "body hook" is picked at the two side corners of the top surface, and the lines of picking flowers are eclectic. In life, these two things are the bride's wedding preparations, which are used to "press the bottom of the box" and also to show the bride's "dexterity". Adding "body hook" or "ulcer" ceremony, the so-called "ulcer" is a custom to pay tribute to the elders who call on the bride. In embroidery production, Luo Jing cross stitch seems simple, but the requirements are quite high. It is required to form a pattern with a cross on both sides. The basic stitches are "walking needle", "twisting needle" and "snake shedding". After a long period of development, Luo Jing's cross-stitch pattern has formed a unique performance scheme, with dozens of independent patterns, such as iris, bird flower, lotus flower, waist ling flower, cypress flower, star anise flower, grass and climbing grass. The elements of these independent patterns form a colorful overall pattern. Cross-sectional painting has rich cultural connotations, including natural scenery, traditional patterns for praying for and eliminating disasters, description of legends and stories, and embodiment of personal will. Folk women's small skills are not desirable but difficult to be expensive and elegant. So there is no written record in local chronicles; After widespread spread, the top of the head and the top of the foot are still everywhere. Therefore, we can neither deny the brilliant tradition woven by highly skilled women, nor obliterate the wisdom creation of generations of peasant women. The cross-dressing of Luo Jing, known as the indigenous people, embodies the accumulation of local culture, which is really rare in this international metropolis. What is commendable is that the applicant has collected dozens of "flower picking" objects and found more than a dozen descendants who can weave good embroidery. A few of them can also show and teach skills, have started classes and raise funds to hold art exhibitions. In Xinghua, there is a long-standing tradition that a girl learns sewing from her mother, grandmother, aunt on the door, aunt among relatives and so on. Once you get this needle and thread, you can't lose it, and you must keep it until the girl gets married. Therefore, most of the last needlework a girl does at her parents' home is her own wedding dress. Among these numerous embroideries, picking flowers with green cloth is one of the important skills. If a girl doesn't know how to choose flowers, she is naturally inferior to others. Even if she marries her husband's family, she is too weak in front of her mother-in-law to lift her head so high. Technically, it is different from ordinary embroidery. Generally speaking, embroidery pays attention to "embroidery" and blue cloth pays attention to "picking". Most of the girls in the boudoir weave their own blue homespun and pick flowers according to the patterns handed down from generation to generation. The needle method of picking flowers is the "cross" method. Among them, the stitch method is "×", which is called "cross stitch"; If the stitch is I-shaped, it is Ping Xiu. In the "pick" method, there are two kinds of green cloth pick: single-sided pick and double-sided pick. It goes without saying that single-sided picking is much simpler than double-sided picking. Double-sided picking is to pick out the same pattern on both sides with a special stitch. There are nearly 40 patterns on the green cloth, including group flowers, edge flowers, corner flowers and heart-filled flowers. These patterns are embroidered on quilt covers, door curtains, curtains and other large items, but they are more common in sachets, garters, square towels, aprons and other female products. Of course, such a unique flower picking skill, its products will not exclude men. Such as wallets, belts, tobacco bags, etc. You can embroider a flower case. Among them, young girls like to embroider token of love for their Prince Charming. Even if it's a handkerchief, it's necessary to embroider an ice joint to show your mind. As mentioned above, the fabrics used in green cloth embroidery are mostly home textiles, commonly known as "home machine cloth". Dyed household machine cloth is also called "big cloth". This kind of cloth is dyed cyan as the background, and the flower picker alternately picks and embroiders on the "big cloth" with needles and threads in his hands, embroidering various patterns. The needle used here is no different from the usual embroidery needle. The line used is a white line. Flower pickers use needles to pick white lines on the grid where the warp and weft of the "big cloth" cross, forming a strong three-dimensional sense. When picking flowers, the length of the needle and the tightness of the thread must be consistent. Pick and embroider to a dense place, pay attention to the collocation of needles, and don't show the background color. To put it simply, there may only be a small flower and a few lines, and the needles need to be stuck in place, and the lines are smooth. Don't drag your feet. Green cloth usually has flowers on both sides of the main pattern and some tin foil decoration. These colorful ornaments are embroidered with seven colors of silk thread: red, yellow, green, blue, cyan, purple and orange, which enriches the whole embroidery. Let embroidery be rich in color, sharp in contrast, dense and appropriate in movement, showing a strong visual impact. Xinghua's blue cloth is embroidered with flowers, which embodies the bold pursuit of folk artists in composition and modeling. It is refined and summarized from daily life, and then exaggerated after bold choice, thus making the whole embroidery concise and vivid and highly decorative. It has both the high antiquity of bronze decoration and the roughness of Qin brick and Han tile; Both the elegance of Song porcelain and the simplicity of paper-cutting; There is both the exquisiteness of Suzhou embroidery and the beauty of brocade. The navy blue cloth and the white thread of cotton thread create such a colorful, simple and elegant pattern full of specific regional customs and folk customs on the "big cloth". This special folk skill shows the wisdom crystallization created by Xinghua women with a pair of discerning eyes and skillful hands. However, with the changes of living environment, times and society, this ancient craft, which originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties and matured in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is on the verge of extinction due to lack of materials and difficulties in production, and needs urgent protection and rescue.