Jingxi hydrangea with hydrangea

The most exquisite hydrangea is the "heap embroidered hydrangea" made by the old artists in Jingxi with ancient and complicated embroidery techniques. Generally, hydrangeas are relatively large.

They are all embroidered with single thread, and various patterns are embroidered on the fabric of petals. The pattern on the petal fabric is relatively flat, the lines and colors are picturesque, and the embroidery method and technology are relatively simple. The "heap embroidery and hydrangea" of double-thread embroidery method has more exquisite graphics and extremely complicated patterns, and the things outlined are lifelike and full of three-dimensional sense, such as fresh things coming out of generate and counting the best hydrangeas. The earliest recorded hydrangea in Jingxi contains seeds of crops such as soybeans, millet, cotton or grain, which not only makes hydrangea have a certain weight and easy to throw, but also has a deeper meaning, that is, hydrangea is an "auspicious thing". Because Zhuang is a traditional rice-growing nation, they are very concerned about the annual harvest of crops. Therefore, in all kinds of rituals of offering sacrifices and praying for the New Year, crop seeds, sowing, farming and other forms of production and labor are often the themes of expression. For example, when building a new house in the rural areas of Zhuang nationality, sprinkle some whole grains at the four corners of the wall base; When erecting a girder, two strings of ears of grain should be hung on the girder; Old people usually send some polished rice as gifts on their birthdays. These phenomena all symbolize growth, richness, prosperity and peace. Hydrangea throwing is held during the Spring Festival and the "March 3rd" Song Festival every year. Hydrangea is full of five-grain seeds, which is the spring sowing season, which means that "five grains are abundant" in a year. At the same time, hydrangea, as a love thing for young men and women, means "fertility prosperity". Today, the outstanding sons and daughters of the Zhuang nationality continue to inject new vitality into the ancient art of hydrangea, making it glow again in the new era.

Jingxi hydrangea pays attention to hand-made and fine workmanship, with red, yellow and green as the base and fabric. Most hydrangeas are 12 petals, and each petal is embroidered with various mascots. Except for the middle four petals, all the others require that "the upper four petals must pick birds, and the lower four petals must be animals". In Jiuzhou Town, Jingxi, the hometown of hydrangea, it is called "the top grade of hydrangea in Guangxi" because of its unique structure and exquisite materials, and all hydrangeas are made by hand, small and exquisite and brightly colored. Jingxi once made super-large hydrangeas for the collection of the National Museum of Nationalities in Japan, and specially made super-large hydrangeas with a diameter of 1.97m and 2m to welcome the return of Hong Kong and Macao. Now it is famous at home and abroad.