The name of "inch gold"

Guangxi Zhuang brocade is known as "inch brocade inch gold".

Zhuang Brocade was listed as an intangible cultural heritage in 2006, and it is also known as the four famous brocade in China along with Yunjin, Jin Shu and Jin Song. It originated in the Song Dynasty and is a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation. Wen Zhuang means a page of the sky pattern. This exquisite handicraft made of cotton thread or silk thread is vivid in design, rigorous in structure, colorful, full of love and cheerful national style, which embodies the Zhuang people's worship of heaven and earth and their pursuit and yearning for a better life.

Guangxi national brocade art, represented by Zhuang brocade art, has become an important part of China traditional folk art after more than one thousand years of development. Zhuang brocade has produced colorful patterns in the long-term labor practice of people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi, which strongly reflects their love and reverence for life, nature and national culture, permeates the optimistic spirit of national culture, embodies people's yearning for beauty and expresses sincere feelings.

Present situation of Zhuang brocade in Guangxi

Due to historical and practical reasons, Zhuang Brocade is facing a serious inheritance crisis and needs urgent rescue and protection. With the collapse of natural economic structure, commodity economy and urban civilization are constantly impacting ancient folk culture, and the inheritance and development of traditional craft tapestries are facing unprecedented difficulties.

In the past, brocade technology has been widely developed, and one of the main factors is that it is the basic skill for many Zhuang women to make a living. Brocade craft has been passed down from generation to generation. A tapestry master or a very clever girl will teach her some basic principles through her master, and with her own understanding of life, her creation will be integrated into the magnificent tapestry.

Therefore, Zhuang brocade is constantly developing, supplementing and sublimating. In today's commodity society, brocade art no longer needs to bear the pressure of survival, but simply returns to the status of a folk craft, and the significance of brocade is only accepted as a national craft.