The Inheritance Significance of Brocade Skills of Zhuang Nationality

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 rich and wonderful 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, condenses people's yearning for beauty, expresses sincere feelings, meets the basic needs of life, and closely combines the practical functions of materials with spiritual needs to become a "living fossil" bearing the memory of national culture.

Zhuang brocade is one of the outstanding cultural heritages of Zhuang nationality. It can not only provide vivid materials for the study of textile skills of ethnic minorities in China, but also add vivid examples to the textile history of China and even the world, and play a positive role in inheriting and carrying forward national culture and enhancing national self-esteem.

However, due to various reasons, such as history and reality, Zhuang Brocade is facing a severe inheritance crisis and needs urgent rescue and protection. With the collapse of natural economic structure, commodity economy and urban civilization are constantly impacting the ancient folk culture, and the inheritance and development of brocade, a traditional craft, has also fallen into an unprecedented predicament. In the past, brocade technology has been widely developed, and a big factor is that it is the basic skill for many Zhuang women to live on. Brocade craft has been passed down from generation to generation. A spiritual brocade hand or a particularly clever girl will combine some basic principles handed down by the master with her own understanding of life to create brocade, so brocade is constantly developing, supplementing and sublimating. In today's commodity society, brocade technology 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 by people as a national arts and crafts. However, the inheritance and continuation of national folk traditional culture mostly rely on oral teaching, and the difficult survival dilemma makes the younger generation discouraged, which also makes the brocade skills lack of successors. Therefore, the personal living conditions of artists and craftsmen are the premise of the existence of folk arts.