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China's largest embroidery was born in Hunan

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Hunan embroidery "Chairman Mao and the Fifty-Six Nationalities" was completed , 7 meters long and 3 meters high, will be sent to the Great Hall of the People as a National Day gift

The huge Hunan embroidery work "Chairman Mao and the Fifty-six Nationalities" was unveiled at the Hunan Embroidery Research Institute yesterday and will be It was shipped to Beijing on September 20 and displayed in the Hunan Hall of the Great Hall of the People as a gift to the 55th anniversary of the National Day. This work is 7 meters long and 3 meters high, setting a record for the largest size in the history of Hunan embroidery and even Chinese embroidery. ?

More than 400 colors were used

The reporter saw this breathtaking work in the embroidery hall of the Provincial Hunan Embroidery Research Institute. There are 57 people on the embroidered face. Chairman Mao is walking in the center, full of energy and friendly expression. People of all ethnic groups are wearing brightly colored costumes and smiling happily. The scene of national unity is very lively. According to reports, more than 30 kinds of stitches were used in the entire embroidery to show the characters' skin color and facial features vividly, with flexible expressions and smooth lines. At the same time, workers used more than 400 colors to make the ethnic minority costumes colorful and bright. Texturally expressed.

Creating the largest embroidery work in China

In February this year, the Provincial Hunan Embroidery Research Institute successfully embroidered the first batch of Hunan embroidery products "Zhangjiajie", "Yueyang Tower" and Chairman Mao's poem "Qinyuanchun·Changsha". Among them, the single-sided embroidery "Zhangjiajie" is 2.3 meters high and 4.9 meters wide, and the double-sided embroidered "Yueyang Tower" is 2.05 meters high and 4.25 meters wide. At that time, they set the largest single and double-sided embroidery sizes in Hunan embroidery. . "Chairman Mao and the Fifty-Six Nationalities" embroidered this time is the second batch of embroidery sent to the Hunan Hall of the Great Hall of the People. Its scale is larger, setting a record for the largest size in the history of Chinese embroidery.

More than 80 people embroidered for 216 days

This embroidery is based on the oil painting of the same name created by the famous artist Hou Yimin in the 1960s, which depicts Chairman Mao and 56 ethnic groups. A passionate scene together. According to reports, in order to transplant this famous painting into Hunan embroidery, the Provincial Hunan Embroidery Research Institute organized a group of design and embroidery experts including arts and crafts master Song Dingguo, Hunan embroidery masters Liu Aiyun and Rao Biyou, and chief craftsmen Wang Xiaohui and Wang Jianyi***80 It involved multiple people, lasted 216 days, and cost 170,000 man-hours. Liu Aiyun, who participated in the production, said that in the past, when embroidering oil paintings, random stitch embroidery was mainly used, but the effect looked better from a distance. This time the embroidery breaks through the tradition, mainly using cross stitches, supplemented by random stitches, oblique stitches and other stitches to embroider the facial texture of the characters, making the embroidery more natural and delicate. Industry insiders praised: This work not only has the weight of the original oil painting, but also adds a grandeur unique to the new era in the re-creation.

"Chairman Mao and the Fifty-Six Nationalities" was praised by all walks of life as soon as it was released. According to Zhou Ce, director of the Hunan Embroidery Research Institute, it was the pioneers of Hunan Embroidery who broke tradition and created the Got this huge masterpiece. ? The embroidery of human faces is the most difficult. Traditional embroidery uses silk threads to refract light to make the characters vivid and expressive, while oil painting characters are rich in color and have a thicker feel. They cannot be reflective, otherwise the characters will be deformed and steal the light, affecting the relationship between primary and secondary. In the past, embroidered oil paintings were mainly done with random stitches and could only be viewed from a distance. This time, artists from the Hunan Embroidery Research Institute mainly used cross stitches, supplemented by random stitches and oblique stitches to embroider the facial texture of the characters. The skin color and facial features are processed according to different situations in terms of color conversion, stitching trend, and thread thickness. The eyebrows, eyes, and hair tips are embroidered extremely fine, and the passionate and unrestrained emotions make the face flexible and smooth, and achieve a non-reflective effect. ?

The second difficulty is the character’s clothing, which is also the most outstanding aspect of this work. The chairman's woolen coat, the worker's coarse uniform, the Uyghur girl's silk skirt, the Miao daughter's brocade, etc., are either thick, rough, light, or elegant, especially the clothing of ethnic minorities, which are colorful, rich, and colorful. The national characteristics are dazzling. Embroidery artists use nearly 30 stitch systems, and match the thickness of the embroidery thread to reflect the texture. For example, artists creatively apply sweater knitting stitches to embroidery to express straw ornaments; twist two different colors of embroidery threads together to embroider the leggings, skirts, cuffs and other parts of national costumes, which can better reflect the rough and delicate style. Characteristic beauty. At the same time, in the work, the embroidery threads are bold and rich in color, and the entire embroidery has as many as 400 colors. It makes full use of the "all colors available" feature of Hunan embroidery, which not only highlights the characteristics of the embroidery, but also obeys the main body and highlights the center.

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