What are the specialties of Linxia?

Linxia handmade carpet has a long history and exquisite craftsmanship, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. It has a long reputation for its strong local and ethnic characteristics. The main varieties are sacrificial carpets, ethnic tapestries, antique carpets, art tapestries, living room carpets and Tibetan carpets. The products are made of domestic high-quality native wool, dyed by special plants and hand-made. After chemical washing, they are mercerized cotton satin. After cutting, they are as strong as relief. After technological treatment, its appearance is antique, elegant and unique, and it has high artistic appreciation value and practical value.

Step 2 carve gourds

"Gourd carving" has a history of about 100 years, and it is a wonderful flower in Linxia folk art. With needle carving, two steel needles, one thick and one thin, the big needle outlines and the small needle depicts, the art of gourd carving is more and more perfect and dazzling. Its raw materials mainly come from domestic gourd, paying attention to uniform size; It is mainly made by carefully drawing figures, ethnic customs, landscape patterns and celebrity poems on its surface with special techniques such as sun exposure and polishing. There are generally three kinds of carved gourds. One is a small round gourd, which can not only be viewed, but also be used as a fitness ball. Second, single hanging, pay attention to being round and not knotted, so as to gather sound; Third, naturally occurring gourd with bumps is covered with grotesque bumps, which is extremely rare because of the variation of seeds. With a little carving and decoration, with a touch of hands, it becomes brighter and brighter, quite natural and boring. Nowadays, carved gourds, with the intelligence of Hezhou people, have crossed the ocean and been welcomed by compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

3. Brick carving of Hui nationality

It is a colorful flower in Hezhou folk art, which originated in the Northern Song Dynasty and matured in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is an architectural art material made of clay or blue bricks. It has been inherited and innovated by countless skilled craftsmen, and its works are colorful, rigorous in composition, fine in carving, natural and full of strong imagination and expressiveness. Brick carving has its own unique knife method. A pair of brick carvings are often composed of three or four layers of patterns, which overlap and echo each other, and are integrated like a knife, giving people a strong three-dimensional sense. It skillfully combines calligraphy, painting and sculpture, with novel conception, poetic and rich flavor of life, extensive materials, strong local characteristics and national colors, strong local flavor, simplicity and touching. Exquisite and colorful carvings are good at absorbing moments in life and realizing vivid and changeable shapes with extraordinary ideas. Looking through Hezhou brick carvings, no matter what patterns, there are few scenes of people's activities, which is an important symbol of Linxia Hui brick carvings. Mosques use auspicious themes and patterns instead of words. Today, Linxia brick carving, as a folk art with a long history, is active in the north and south of the river with a group of classical construction teams. This splendid flower of art has spread all over China.

4, safety waist knife

"Baoan broadsword" is a traditional handicraft of Baoan people and a treasure of Baoan culture. As a national handicraft, it has the characteristics of exquisite workmanship, sharp blade, durability and convenient carrying, and is an indispensable daily necessities for Tibetan, Mongolian, Hui, security, Kazakh, Uygur and other ethnic minorities. The production of "Baoan waist knife" has a history of 130 years. The waist knives produced in the early days were black-bore knives with scabbard-Borigi and horn handle. Nowadays, with the continuous improvement of production technology, there are more and more varieties, and the technological process includes design, blank forming, carving, tattoo and so on. This waist knife has beautiful shape, bright lines, exquisite decoration and exquisite craftsmanship.

5, straw stickers

Wheat straw craft painting is a decorative painting made of wheat straw through several processes. On the basis of inheriting the tradition of Chinese painting, the painting adopts the expressive technique of Chinese painting and the perspective technique of western painting, and combines modern photography, sculpture, embroidery and other technologies to form a unique arts and crafts. It has the characteristics of bright colors, clear patterns, bright luster and strong three-dimensional sense. Especially indoors, according to different angles of view, several different colors can be transformed, which are not only decorations of modern families, but also works of art, and are excellent products for viewing and collecting.

6. Yellow River Stone

The Taohe River and Daxia River basins, tributaries of the Yellow River, with their unique geological structures, have formed unique rare stone resources, such as sponges and coral fossils, with perfect stone forms, wonderful composition, gorgeous colors, changeable patterns, strong contrast, firm rocks and vivid images, which vividly reflect people, flowers, birds and animals. "Ingenious craftsmanship" is amazing, and it is called "the treasure of the Yellow River", which makes collectors amazed and can't put it down.

7. Horned handicrafts

This product takes yak horn and goat horn unique to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as raw materials, adopts traditional Chinese manual technology, and after degreasing treatment, it is carefully made into three series of cow and sheep skull ornaments, decorative handicrafts and health care combs with unique plastic arts, which maintains the natural features of the wild beauty of the plateau and is an indispensable high-grade decoration for modern families. Its shapes are different, exquisite and beautiful, and it is known as "a must in Long Yuan".

8. Hezhou embroidery

It is made of high-quality satin, silk, cotton and other fabrics with unique design, embroidered with various silk threads and colorful. It is a good gift for relatives and friends, and also a souvenir of tourism.