Complete works of traditional embroidery

As a cultural heritage of our country, Suzhou embroidery is of great significance. It is not only the painstaking efforts handed down from generation to generation, but also the representative of our traditional culture. Suzhou embroidery is the abbreviation of Jiangsu, because this embroidery method originally originated in Jiangsu. When it comes to southern girls, we always feel gentle and virtuous, soft as water, but it is this meticulous feature of Jiangnan girls that brings us this extremely meticulous craft of Suzhou embroidery.

In the past, we always associated embroidery with mother mending our old clothes under the lamp at night, but now it has become a commemorative collection. Yao Huifen, one of the talented embroiderers, inherited and improved Suzhou embroidery and embroidered an embroidered version of Mona Lisa with a needle. Yao Huifen's embroidery works are so lifelike that everyone will wonder if it is a photo after seeing it. Of course, the value of this excellent embroidery work is also high, reaching 1 10,000.

Su embroidery art and talented woman Yao Huifen

Embroidery is to use colorful silk thread to pass through fabric products, and finally form beautiful embroidery. Let alone Su embroidery, a traditional skill of Su embroidery has been passed down in China for more than two thousand years. Embroidery has been a traditional decorative skill of our people since ancient times. Many clothes, fabrics and so on left over from ancient times have traces of embroidery. It can be said that embroidery bears the aesthetic and use value of China for nearly a thousand years.

Nowadays, people's clothing materials and styles have become rich and colorful, and the decoration methods are varied. Hand embroidery, a complicated and laborious process, has gradually withdrawn from the clothing market and been replaced by convenient and quick mechanical embroidery. Embroidery has gradually evolved from traditional practical skills into a cultural heritage.

Among many embroidery techniques, Suzhou embroidery is the most famous. Many people who have been to Suzhou will make a special trip to buy some handicrafts related to embroidery to go home. Many people's impressions of Suzhou embroidery stay on basic products such as scenery and flowers. Nowadays, craftsmen gradually carry forward Suzhou embroidery and re-create. Yao Huifen is one of many Suzhou embroidery craftsmen.

Yao Huifen is not only good at Su embroidery, but also one of the best talents. She brought her embroidery skills to the extreme, made many innovations in Suzhou embroidery, integrated tradition and innovation, and led Suzhou embroidery to the world. Yao Huifen seems to be born with this embroidery material. He began to feel the art of constantly shuttling between stitches since he was a child. In addition, influenced by his father, who is a top embroidery painter, Yao Huifen loves embroidery even more.

Yao Huifen pursues the transformation of traditional embroidery skills.

Usually, Suzhou embroidery is not a difficult skill in the eyes of many of us, but a simple embroidery needle shuttles on the embroidered cloth. Even many people think that with the continuous development and progress of social economy, convenient, fast and low-cost mechanical embroidery will soon replace this time-consuming and laborious traditional embroidery. However, these people actually underestimated the art between needle and thread. A truly qualified embroiderer needs not only edification and training from childhood, but also more than ten years of hard work and hard training to reach the standard.

Suzhou embroidery is actually a very rigorous craft. Every piece of work is accumulated bit by bit, and every piece of work has devoted all the efforts of the embroidery worker. Simple industrial assembly line can not reproduce the sense of life injected by embroidery workers.

Yao Huifen is a traditional embroiderer. She was deeply influenced by the art of Suzhou embroidery since she was a child. When she was five or six years old, she began to learn embroidery needles and practiced hard to embroider excellent works. With the increasing age of Yao Huifen and the continuous improvement of Suzhou embroidery skills, Yao Huifen gradually began to be dissatisfied with the traditional Suzhou embroidery skills. When Yao Huifen's skills reached perfection, she began to make some minor changes in her works.

Yao Huifen, who is naturally suitable for Suzhou embroidery, began her journey of innovation. She doesn't like that all her work is methodical. By chance, Yao Huifen came into contact with western oil paintings, so she thought about whether Suzhou embroidery and oil paintings could be combined and whether they could be integrated with various paintings.

Yao Huifen, who had an idea, immediately began to study, and soon she made great changes to her Su embroidery works. Of course, these changes are not limited to oil painting. Yao Huifen mentioned other China landscape paintings, prints and sketches. After a long period of research and constant experiments to find the law, she was finally able to skillfully use the embroidery needle as a brush. Yao Huifen combined various painting styles and integrated them into the traditional Suzhou embroidery.

Yao Huifen created her "Jane Needle Embroidery", the essence of which is simplicity and blank space. Yao Huifen thinks that the simplest works are often the most beautiful, so she created her own unique style.

Create countless new generations of Suzhou embroidery works that amaze the whole world.

Yao Huifen has created countless exquisite works with her "simple needle embroidery", among which the most famous and popular one is created to pay tribute to Leonardo da Vinci's oil painting Mona Lisa. Yao Huifen used her embroidery needle as a brush to draw an embroidered version of the Mona Lisa on the embroidered cloth stitch by stitch. Yao Huifen's works are so effective that they can even be confused with the real thing. Many people can't help sighing when they first see this photo-like skill.

Yao Huifen, who led Suzhou embroidery to the world with Mona Lisa, is known as the surrealist goddess of embroidery. Her works have been collected by many collectors, and the price has soared to one million yuan, which shows the sophistication of this work.

After becoming famous, Yao Huifen still didn't stop learning and creating herself. Through repeated research, she constantly combined traditional Suzhou embroidery with western painting art, presenting a picture of harmony and conflict, and thus won numerous awards, large and small. Later, Yao Huifen also created many calligraphy and Chinese painting works.

What's more commendable is that Yao Huifen not only studied and updated her Suzhou embroidery art all her life, but also remembered her identity as the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage. Over the years, Yao Huifen has been determined to inherit and develop the art of Suzhou embroidery. She knows that inheriting traditional culture is not only inheritance, but also innovation. Yao Huifen has established his own talent training base, which trains and transports a large number of embroidery talents for the country every year. Yao Huifen taught her skills and innovative spirit of Suzhou embroidery to students without reservation.