China Traditional Arts and Crafts: Four Major Embroideries

China traditional arts and crafts: four major embroideries;

Embroidery is a decorative fabric with certain patterns and color patterns on embroidery materials with needle leads. In the Ming Dynasty, the embroidery of the Gu family in Shanghai was especially famous. Suzhou embroidery, Hunan Xiang embroidery, Guangdong Yue embroidery and Sichuan Shu embroidery are called the four famous embroideries in China.

In art, it has formed a local style with beautiful patterns, harmonious colors, bright lines, lively stitches and fine embroidery, and is known as the "Oriental Pearl". Shuang Mianxiu, which best embodies the artistic features of Suzhou embroidery, enables people to watch Suzhou embroidery from two sides. Shuang Mianxiu's Cat is the representative of Suzhou embroidery's modern works.

Xiang embroidery-Changsha, Hunan;

It is characterized by rich color levels and picturesque embroidery. Xiang embroidery is represented by lions and tigers, and has the saying of "Su Mao Hu Xiang".

Guangdong embroidery-Guangdong area:

It is famous for its full layout, lush patterns, warm scenes, bright colors, strong contrast and gorgeous effects. Another unique phenomenon of Austrian embroidery is that embroidery workers are mostly male workers. Guangdong embroidery mostly uses gold thread as the outline of embroidery pattern, and gold and silver thread pad embroidery is one of the distinctive jobs in Guangdong embroidery. His masterpiece is "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix", which is vivid and full of vitality.

Shu embroidery-Chengdu, Sichuan;

Its embroidery techniques are very unique, with at least 100 exquisite needle embroidery techniques. Representative works include the hanging screen of Musicians in Shu Palace, fish in different colors of aquatic plants on both sides of the strait, pandas and lotus carp displayed in Sichuan Hall of the Great Hall of the People, etc.