China traditional craft embroidery wallet

Embroidered with blue, red, yellow, white and black silk thread, the bag is colorful and naturally has the aesthetic function of decorating and appreciating clothes. Because it is filled with special Chinese herbal medicines, it also has the effects of exorcism, sterilization and refreshing. In modern times, sachet is an effective carrier of traditional culture, which plays an irreplaceable role in interpersonal communication, beautifying the environment, cultivating sentiment and expressing feelings. Send a sachet, convey a friendship, get rid of a good mood, express a good wish, and ask questions with rich cultural connotation and spiritual orientation.

Details are as follows:

1, definition

Wallet is a small bag of odds and ends that people carry with them when they wear traditional China clothes. The shapes of wallets are round, oval, square and rectangle, as well as peach, wishful and pomegranate. The patterns of the purse are complex and simple, including flowers and birds, animals, insects, landscapes, figures, auspicious words, poems and figures, which are very decorative. In modern southern dialects such as Cantonese, Hakka and Minnan, wallets are often used to refer to wallets.

2. Introduction to wallets

The predecessor of wallet is called "Lotus Bag". Load, load; Bag, bag also. The so-called "lotus bag" is a small bag used to hold odds and ends. Because ancient clothes had no pockets, some items that had to be carried with them (such as towels, stamps and coins) could only be stored in such bags. The earliest lotus bags can be used with both hands and shoulders, so they are also called "holding bags" or "pulling bags". Later, I gradually felt that my shoulder was inconvenient, so I hung it on my waist, forming a custom, commonly known as "side bag". Lotus bags are usually made of leather, so they are also called "bags". For example, a piece unearthed from Subhas's tomb in Shanshan, Xinjiang, is made of sheepskin, rectangular, 6.7 cm long and 3.7 cm wide, with a lace at the mouth for hanging. The earliest existing capsules are relics of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

3. Embroidered wallet

China's embroidery is famous at home and abroad. It came into being with the feudal society of "men plowing and women weaving" and adapted to the characteristics of small-scale peasant economy combining agriculture and handicraft industry. The varieties of embroidery are all over the daily necessities, and the content of embroidery almost reflects all aspects of life. Through those exquisite, bright and beautiful patterns, people can feel the pure beauty of working people. Among many embroidery techniques, the most prominent one is embroidered purse.