Where is the specialty of Ganzhou fabric?

Ganzhou cloth art is a unique representative work of folk handicrafts circulating in Ganxian County, Shaanxi Province, and it is a comprehensive art integrating folk paper-cutting, embroidery and production technology. Cloth, that is, the art on cloth, takes cloth, silk, silk, satin and so on. As the main raw material, taking the content of people's longing for a better life as the theme, it uses the methods of deformation and exaggeration, and at the same time integrates and absorbs the production techniques of various categories in folk art, through cutting, sewing, embroidering, pasting, picking, pulling (tying), splicing, winding, collecting, folding and spelling. It is a wonderful flower in Shaanxi folk arts and crafts. Ganzhou fabric has a long history. The Book of Songs records the scenes of people weaving, making clothes and embroidering in Gansu and Shaanxi. She is a symbol of Wei Zhen's disaster and a concrete embodiment of divine power to survive in the slave society and feudal society for thousands of years. In the process of fighting against nature, when encountering unexplained natural phenomena such as diseases and earthquakes, she worships heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, and asks all animals for help in order to improve herself. With the help of the reproductive ability of fish frogs, some homophonic auspicious patterns, symbolic and symbolic mascots and symbols are gradually formed, which has become the image carrier of folk culture to meet the spiritual needs. Ganzhou cloth is made by rural women. The works are diverse in modeling, changeable in style, simple in tone, light and practical, showing fresh and simple folk customs. Embroideries are mostly based on animals, and they are embroidered into different patterns and images by means of binding, cutting and pasting, piecing together and embroidery. Cloth embroidery is full of deformation and exaggeration in modeling. In color art, simplicity is emphasized, and embroidery is coarse and fine. Quite folkway. Ganxian cloth absorbs traditional embroidery techniques and combines China's calligraphy and painting art. Embroidery is fine, bright, elegant in color, diverse in style, light and practical. She is the condensation of culture, and she is a photo album of Qin's 5,000-year history. Folk fabrics in Ganxian mainly decorate festivals and weddings, such as Spring Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. On Dragon Boat Festival, grandma gave her grandson "five poisons wrapped in belly" and "five poisons sandals" and so on. Every door should be plugged with an EPP, and children should wear a five-flower rope on their wrists and a sachet on their chests to ward off evil spirits and strengthen their bodies. When a child is full moon or one year old, grandma will send a tiger hat, a fat doll bib, a collar, a long life lock, a bracelet, a cloth tiger, flower sleeves, a tiger pillow, a lion pillow, a unicorn pillow, a tiger and pig's head shoes to show good luck and pray for its blessing. Cloth is a comprehensive process that integrates folk paper-cutting, embroidery and production technology, such as decorative flower patterns on animals, which are made by cutting and embroidery. Fabric mainly relies on the traditional folk customs of Ganxian county, with elegant and generous shapes, simple and bright colors, vivid and lovely images and natural interest. Before getting married, the woman had to embroider pillowcases, insoles and door curtains for the man, and at the same time, she had to prepare some sachets and needlework for his relatives and friends, so that everyone could evaluate whether she was ingenious or not. When the child is full moon, Aunt menstruation will give the doll tiger shoes, a tiger hat, a tiger headrest, a Chinese-style chest covering and a cloth tiger, so as to save the child from fire and water and keep him alive. The embroidery given by the girl to her sweetheart is more subtle and meaningful. Put a hook pattern on the sole with a string. I hope my relatives who go out will go quickly and return early. The insole is embroidered with the patterns of "full moon" and "fifteenth day of the first month" to express the feeling of reunion. Fabric is not only a beautiful art, but also a profound meaning. Flowers, insects, birds, plants, etc. Express the author's good wishes of praying for blessings and avoiding evil spirits; The theme of "happiness, luck and longevity" is often used in the articles of the elderly, wishing them health and longevity; Children's products often use tiger, "five poisons" (scorpion, snake, centipede, gecko, toad) and other patterns to ward off evil spirits, hoping that children will be as strong as tigers; Newlyweds like to play with Yuanyang, lotus (lotus) gives birth to your son, and carp makes lotus (symbol of marriage harmony) patterns, hoping for a happy family and many children. The girl gave her lover a love bag, handkerchief, etc. In the past, the flower pillow embroidered by women, "fish playing with lotus" symbolizes men, while lotus symbolizes women, implying the combination of men and women. Another example is "pomegranate competing with peony". Pomegranate symbolizes that men have many children and grandchildren, and peony symbolizes that women are like flowers. The production process of Ganzhou fabric is quite complicated, and the production of a fabric needs more than a dozen processes to complete. First of all, according to the types and characteristics of the fabric, choose a cloth with moderate size and appropriate color, and use scissors to make a plan. Then small pieces of cloth with different colors are spliced into various patterns, and the patterns are fixed on the plan by embroidery, which is also called patchwork or cloth applique. Embroider the details of patterns and graphics with various colored lines. There are many methods of embroidery, such as laying needles, plain needles, scattered needles, punching holes, looping, coiling gold, knitting embroidery, locking embroidery and so on. Then, cross-stitch, also known as cross-stitch, requires strict cross-stitch with equal distance and length according to the longitude and latitude of the fabric, and arranges it into various embroidery forms with unique deformation and auspiciousness. Embroidery doesn't hurt silk, but it can strengthen the wear resistance of cloth, and then splicing the floor plans together is called pulling (binding). In order to be firm, it is often necessary to put on the lining and fill it with soft filling cotton, rags and silk floss, so that a fabric handicraft is completed. With the development of society, people's aesthetic standards are also different. Now these handicraft fabrics are becoming less and less common, and fewer and fewer women can do this kind of craft. At present, the production of Ganzhou fabric is mainly concentrated in Liuchi, Shima, Lingqian and other villages at the foot of Ganling. At present, more than 100 people have participated in Ganzhou fabric production, and more than ten varieties with historical, cultural and regional characteristics have been developed, such as vests, hats, quilts, zodiac signs and tiger pillows. Handicraft market and retail stalls have been set up in the tourist area, with 73 dealers. At the same time, several enlightened people, such as Yang Zhiying in front of the mausoleum, trafficked their tourist souvenirs to Wuhan, Shanghai, Shaanxi, Guangdong and other places, making the tourist souvenirs in Ganxian sell well in the market. In Ganling, the "Five Poisons Vest" embroidered by women has exquisite craftsmanship and elegant shape, which has both the effect of paper-cutting and the characteristics of embroidery, and has become a hot commodity for foreign guests. Won people's love.