What is the significance of embroidery to China?

The significance of embroidery to China is to be one of the representatives of Chinese culture and art.

Embroidery is one of the traditional Chinese folk handicrafts, which has a history of at least 2,000 to 3,000 years in China. There are four main categories of Chinese embroidery: Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery and Cantonese embroidery.

The techniques of embroidery include: wrong needle embroidery, messy needle embroidery, net embroidery, full-ground embroidery, silk locking, nashi, najin, flat gold, shadow gold, pan gold, piling velvet, scraping velvet, poking yarn, sprinkling threads, picking flowers, etc. The traditional embroidery is a kind of traditional Chinese handicrafts.

Traditional embroidery as a long history of handicrafts, which cohesion of the deep national cultural heritage, showing a strong Chinese culture and national characteristics, but also in the historical arena is widely popular and respected, attracted the eyes of countless foreign friends.

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Types of embroidery:

Su embroidery is famous for its fine stitches, light colors and fine embroidery, which is characterized by flatness, lightness, evenness, uniformity, harmony, fineness and density. The subject matter is mainly small animals.

Xiang embroidery is mostly realistic, bright colors, with Chinese paintings as the background, lined with the corresponding clouds and landscapes, pavilions, birds and animals, bold style. Characterized by embroidered tigers, lions, etc., with a unique needlework embroidered animal hair root and root strong.

Shu embroidery is concise in composition, mostly adopting traditional national patterns such as squares and flower strips, which are rich in decorative. The colors are rich and bright, the stitching is rigorous, the reality is suitable, the three-dimensional sense is strong, flat and smooth.

Cantonese embroidery is embroidered with gold and silver threads, and the embroidery threads are smooth and bright. The layout of the composition is tight, decorative and three-dimensional. The embroidery surface is rich and magnificent, dazzling, mostly used in theater costumes, wedding clothes, and so on.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese Embroidery Culture

Baidu Encyclopedia - Embroidery