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What are the styles of emblem embroidery?

In areas where Hui people live in compact communities, especially in mountainous areas, Hui girls often regard embroidery as an auspicious artistic interest. Every girl or daughter-in-law; There is usually a small bag for embroidery. Usually, we should pay attention to buying all kinds of embroidery needles, chopping needles and silk threads. Every time a village vendor comes to the head of the mountain village, women scramble to buy colorful flowers. During the slack season, they visit each other, sit together in groups of three or five, take out embroidery and are busy with embroidery work. Hui female embroidery has its own unique ideas and "routines" of flying needles. The girl and daughter-in-law sit together, complement each other and compete with each other. The more beautiful embroidery is, the more patterns are embroidered. It can be said that a hundred flowers are blooming and colorful. Various patterns and patterns are embroidered on the surface of toe cap, sock bottom, insole, vest, Chinese-style chest covering, sachet, waist cloth, pillowcase, brim, earmuffs, wallet, apron, covering and mattress.

Hui embroidery is full of imagination and artistic charm. Although Islamic teachings prohibit idolatry and the representation of living objects (people and animals) in plastic arts, when they create daily necessities and birds and animals, they often embroider them into complex patterns, so that birds and other bodies are entangled in flowers and plants to look similar.

Embroidering flower patterns and geometric figures is a unique skill of Hui women's embroidery. In the Hui people's homes in the northwest mountainous areas, we saw their pillows, vests, wall charts, aprons and other embroidered flowers. These images are very lifelike, like butterfly flowers, delicate petals, elegant and quiet, as if making people feel faint fragrance.

Some embroidery works attach great importance to changing decoration, giving people an overall aesthetic feeling. They often take leaves from different plants in nature to form their own imaginary flowers and trees. The harmonious unity of branches and leaves and Hua Teng is a bit like the creative method of a tree with flowers and fruits in Han embroidery patterns. Suzhou Hui woman Quan Jingfen's embroidery works caused a sensation in Chinese embroidery field and won international awards.

Embroidery of Hui women not only expresses the beauty of nature and the generation of life, but also artistically expresses their religious beliefs. A Hui girl or daughter-in-law bought a clean cloth, washed it and asked the imam to write it in the Awentang, and then embroidered it day and night. After the characters are embroidered, they are usually embroidered with traditional Arabic geometric figures or moire patterns and hung on the wall, which is deeply loved by people and fully reflects the aesthetic psychology of Hui women ~