Guess: Tujia brocade weaving technique has a long history, known in folklore as?

Beating flowers.

Xiangxi Tujia brocade technique has a long history, since the formation of more than 1,500 years of history, reflecting the basic characteristics of China's ethnic minorities brocade technique system. The Tujia brocade is made of cotton thread, commonly known as "playing flowers", and there are two main varieties of playing flowers (Tujia language, Xilan Kapu) and flower bands.

Xilan Kapu throws off the conventional sense of the weaving shuttle, color weft all by hand feeding, disconnecting, changing and color weft weaving into the irregularity, so that the penetration of modern mechanical means of processing, the formation of process barriers. In addition, due to the scientific and reasonable fabric organization selection, although the weft line is broken, but by the organization of the Yin ground firmly fixed, the overall fabric strength has not been damaged. So there are "Tujia people's bed of flowers can be used for several generations".

Tujia brocade cultural value

Tujia brocade is the outstanding representative of the traditional culture of the Tujia people, in the whole national craft culture occupies a major position, the witness of the Chinese nation's multi-cultural has a unique value.

First, cultural and artistic value: Tujia brocade embodies the cultural traditions and cultural origins of the Tujia ethnic group in northwest Hunan, fully reflects the aesthetic sentiment and national consciousness of the Tujia ethnic group, honors the ancestors and heroes, worships heaven and earth and nature, and reveals the material and cultural attributes of the Tujia ethnic group in a unique way. It has become an important window for the world to understand the brand image of the Tujia nation and study the Tujia culture.

Second, social and historical value: the historical origin of Tujia brocade and its development is also a microcosm of the social development process of the Tujia area in northwest Hunan, which is a reflection of the development of productivity of the Tujia community on both sides of the Youshui River. It tells the historical process of the ancient civilization in the form of rich patterns, which is called "written" on the fabric of the Tujia history.

Third, ethnographic value: Tujia brocade and Tujia language, Tujia folklore **** with the Tujia constitute the most notable symbols of the Tujia, affecting the entire Tujia community. And Tujia brocade is the only one of them can be fixed in time and space, across the long history of the plane intuitive visual image.

Fourth, the scientific value: "Warp flower" is China's oldest flower weaving process, has long been replaced by the times, but the Tujia flower belt to the modern world to show a "through the warps and wefts" of the "Warp flower" typical, there is a weaving of the "Warp flower". Tujia Flower Belt is a typical "warp and weft" weaving technique, which is known as the "living fossil" of weaving. Silankappu's waist-type slant loom is amazingly similar to the slant loom of the Han Dynasty more than two thousand years ago, and its principle of leverage, the use of heddles and so on provide a realistic basis for today's study of the process of weaving science.

Fifth, the value of inheritance and utilization: Tujia brocade occupies an important position in the Chinese craft culture, which is a collection of various types of brocade, inclusive, with a very broad space for development and inheritance and utilization value.