Reaction of Anshun batik technology

The Miao batik category in Anshun batik technique reflects the ancestors' awareness of nature worship and totem worship.

Anshun batik is mainly divided into Miao batik and Buyi batik. The former pattern includes ancient legends and primitive cognition, which reflects the ancient ancestors' awareness of nature worship and totem worship. The latter pattern is mostly natural elements, which shows people's cognition of the universe, reverence for natural mountains and rivers and pursuit of a better life. Anshun batik is a specialty of Anshun City, Guizhou Province, and a symbolic product of China's national geography.

Guizhou Anshun batik is known as "the first dyeing in the East", and Anshun is also known as "the hometown of batik". Batik is to dip a wax knife in melted wax to draw flowers on the cloth, and then dip it in indigo. When the wax is removed, the surface of the cloth will show various patterns of white flowers on a blue background or blue flowers on a white background. During dip dyeing, due to the natural cracking of wax in resist agent, the dye liquor will penetrate into the white cloth along with the crack, leaving natural patterns that are difficult to be drawn manually, such as ice flowers and turtle patterns, which are similar to the "opening" of porcelain glaze and have a very artistic effect, making the cloth surface present a special "opening".

Characteristics of Anshun batik products;

Batik is a famous traditional folk handicraft in Guizhou, and it is also one of the ancient traditional printing and dyeing methods in China. Batik is known as "the flower of ancient oriental art", among which Anshun is the most famous. Anshun batiks are mainly Miao and Buyi batiks, which have inherited ancient crafts. Due to different nationalities, there are some differences in patterns. Its patterns are meticulous and colorful, and the common patterns are mountains and rivers, flowers and birds, insects and fish, ladies and figures, ancient cultural relics and so on.

The materials are very extensive, and the shapes are eclectic, which is very romantic. The colors are usually red, yellow, brown and other multicolor sets, which have strong national characteristics. The traditional batik process is to melt beeswax, dip a wax knife in wax solution, draw various patterns on white cloth, and then put it into a dyeing vat. The dye solution permeates along the cracks on the surface of the waxed cloth, leaving natural patterns that are difficult to describe manually. Then after wax removal and rinsing, a beautiful batik work is finished.