Besides Ou embroidery, what other traditional crafts are there in Wenzhou?

Ou embroidery is called ou embroidery because it is produced in the Oujiang River basin. Ou embroidery began in Tang and Song Dynasties. More than 800 years ago, Wenzhou people used embroidery to beautify their clothes, and their embroidery skills reached a considerable level. Ou embroidery is a traditional handicraft in southern Zhejiang, which can be compared with Xiang embroidery, Su embroidery, Yue embroidery and Shu embroidery. It is called one of the most famous embroideries in China. In the third year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1853), a professional embroidery shop appeared in Wenzhou. The number of embroidery workers once reached 600 to 800. It is said that Ou embroidery originated from the hands of folk women who are good at embroidery. Wenzhou girls had an embroidery tradition of "eleven women combing their hair and twelve women teaching embroidery" in ancient times, which shows the popularity and prosperity of Ou embroidery at that time. Ou embroidery is a traditional sideline of Wenzhou folk women in past dynasties. At that time, the embroidery varieties were clothes, children's hats, bibs, brocade bellies, women's uppers, pillows, purses and so on. The themes are only flowers, birds, fish and insects. As a once brilliant traditional craft, the government has the obligation to support and guide it and create a good environment for it.

What restricts the development of Ou embroidery is that manual embroidery takes a long time and the wage profit is low. Embroiderers have to embroider for more than ten hours every day, and it costs five or six hundred yuan a month. Moreover, female embroidery workers rely entirely on their love for traditional crafts and their inheritance as family crafts.

As early as the Song Dynasty and the first year, embroidery was popular on shoes, hats and clothes, which is Ou embroidery. After hundreds of years of circulation, its colors are becoming more and more beautiful, and there are more and more varieties of designs and colors, gradually forming a technically unique embroidery variety. Ou embroidery is characterized by clear theme, concise composition, changeable stitches, bright colors, bright embroidery surface, uniform stitches and vivid charm. Ou embroidery products are divided into two categories: appreciation products and daily necessities, mainly appreciation products. The content includes people, animals, mountains and rivers, landscapes and so on. , especially people. Generally, auspicious patterns that people like to see and hear are chosen as the theme, such as "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and "Ma Gu Offering a Birthday". Ou embroidery, which embodies the elegance of vulgarity, is deeply loved by ordinary people because of its vivid characters and flexible stitches, and is of great ornamental, decorative and collection value. Especially popular with Chinese in Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and overseas. During Guangxu period, transferred embroidery was exported to Europe, America and Southeast Asia. In the 5th year of the Republic of China (19 16), the embroidery bureau was established in Wenzhou, and embroidery clubs were established in Fu Qian Street, Wuma Street and Dalongqiao in Wenzhou city. The embroidery works of early arts and crafts artist Cai He Jin Jingzhi have been exhibited in Panama, Canada and the United States. In 1960s, Ou embroidery was exported to more than 50 countries and regions overseas, and the main markets were overseas Chinese gathering places, Southeast Asian countries, Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong.

Since the founding of New China, there have been many Ou embroidery works that caused great sensation. From 65438 to 0979, the China Silk Clothing and Embroidery Fair held in Hong Kong showed 12 gold hairpin in the Red House, which attracted the attention of Hong Kong people. In this huge work with a length of 2 meters and a width of 1 meter, the flowers of the four seasons bloom at the same time, and the "Twelve Golden Hairpins" gather together. The sixteen characters in the picture have different faces, bun, jewelry and demeanor. The embroidered surface is colorful and dazzling. 1998, a masterpiece of giant ou embroidery, He Lu Tongchun, with a length of 3.5m and a width of1.4m, once again caused a sensation at home and abroad. This work brings together all the traditional techniques of Ou embroidery and adopts 100 embroidery thread colors. It is the first Ou embroidery work that integrates figures, flowers and birds, landscapes and animals in history.

All these fine products of Ou embroidery are made from the past to serve the present, combined with traditional technological achievements to innovate, which fully shows the inclusiveness and innovation of Ou embroidery, indicating that Ou embroidery is a very vital technological variety.