Craft Embroidery of Mongolian Costume

Mongolian costume embroidery art has a long history as Mongolian costume. The charming way to show the beauty of Mongolian costumes is Mongolian embroidery.

Embroidery is called "Tatagomala" in Mongolian. Mongolian embroidery, like many traditional handicrafts, has left a deep impression on the distant memory of the Chinese nation. Speaking of embroidery, people will immediately think that it is the patent of Jiangnan women's training. In fact, Mongolian women on the grassland are strong and plump, not only can shepherd sheep, but also are experts in embroidery.

Since ancient times, girls in the grassland have learned the art of embroidery since childhood. I mainly learn from my mother, and embroidery will accompany her all her life. Documents such as "Guide to Mongolian Customs" recorded that before the Yuan Dynasty, ancient Mongolians paid great attention to embroidery art in their lives and used it widely. Ingenious Mongolian women skillfully sew and embroider all kinds of clothes and daily necessities that condense the philosophy of life and contain humanistic interests with only a wisp of silk thread and a few pieces of satin, which can be described as a beautiful flower group, but they compete with each other. If you come to the vast Inner Mongolia prairie, you will find that Mongolian herders live in a colorful embroidery world. In the long nomadic life, they created Mongolian embroidery with rough patterns, bright lines and strong color contrast with their smart and hardworking hands, which has the style of northern nomadic people.

The embroidery art of Mongolian costumes shows the exquisite skills of Mongolian women and the infinite charm of Mongolian costumes in a unique artistic form. Those artistic treasures full of rich Mongolian cultural connotations attract future generations to explore and feel the exquisite spiritual realm of Mongolians.

Embroidery art of Mongolian costumes, attached to the local culture, also records the history, beliefs, ideals and aesthetic tastes of the Mongolian people, and shows the cultural accomplishment and spiritual outlook of a nation, an era and all walks of life. Mongolian costume embroidery is mainly used in hats, headdresses, collars, cuffs, hem of robes, long and short vests, boots, shoes, wrestling suits, racing suits, purses, purses and other places. Embroidery patterns all contain a potential symbolic meaning, or symbolize wealth or life reproduction. Through the modeling performance of different themes, it is expressed by metaphor and exaggeration. For example, the variety of plate length patterns, combined with different patterns such as rolling grass patterns, symbolizes auspiciousness, unity and blessing. Tattoos represent the prosperity of five animals. Bats symbolize longevity and good luck. Palindrome symbolizes strength. This pattern symbolizes the rotation of the sun and the four seasons. Moire has the meaning of good luck. The pattern of fish symbolizes freedom, while the tiger, lion and eagle symbolize heroes. Another example is apricot blossom symbolizing love, pomegranate symbolizing fertility, and butterfly symbolizing prolific mother. Birthday, happiness and plums represent good wishes.

Mongolian culture has been influenced by Han culture since ancient times, and various cultures have been infiltrated imperceptibly in the art of Mongolian costume embroidery. Mongols worship dragons and phoenixes very much. They believe that dragons and phoenixes are sacred and do not have the ruling significance of the Han nationality, so they are decorated with dragon patterns in costumes, purses, architectural murals, silver bowls, Mongolian knives and other places. The embroidery patterns of Mongolian costumes all contain people's wishes for a better life. This symbolic technique is combined with embroidery techniques to form a unique pattern connotation feature of "having a picture must be intentional, and being intentional must be auspicious". Mongolians live in vast and beautiful grasslands, which leads to the cultural differences between the East and the West. From costumes to embroidery patterns, we can appreciate the strong life atmosphere of Mongolian people. For example, the Uzhumuqin Mongolians living in Xilin Gol League, through hard work, have created a happy life with six animals thriving and milk fragrance overflowing, leaving a glorious record in the cultural history of Mongolian national costumes. Its robes are rich and colorful, and it is famous for its hemming technology, and its headdress is simple and luxurious. Clothing embroidery patterns mostly adopt traditional patterns such as rolling grass pattern, back pattern, long pattern and moire pattern. The Horqin Mongolians living in Zhelimu League have created lively rap art and Diane dance in their long life. Robes, coats, long vests and headdresses are all made of hairpin and hairpin. The embroidery patterns of clothing are mostly decorated with various flowers and fish patterns, and their embroidery skills are famous for their exquisiteness.

Among all kinds of Mongolian costume embroidery, Mongolian wrestling clothing is famous for its distinctive national style and regional characteristics. At the "Nadam" conference, the wrestling clothes worn by Mongolian men, that is, "Benjile" pants, are embroidered with auspicious patterns such as dragons, phoenixes, tigers and elephants and various grass-rolling patterns, which are majestic and simple. It has extremely high artistic appreciation value. Clothing embroidery is naturally unpretentious, unpretentious, and colorful silk threads are always decorated with Mongolian clothing regardless of the price. The manifestations of Mongolian costume embroidery are exaggeration, contrast, symbol, addition and conciseness. According to different uses, various exquisite patterns are embroidered on various silks and leathers with colored silk thread, cotton thread, camel hair thread and beef tendon. Embroidery techniques are generally divided into embroidery, mending flowers, coiling flowers, digging flowers and mixed embroidery. Exquisite patterns made of embroidery are decorated in any part of clothing, which makes Mongolian clothing and embroidery perfectly integrated.