Where does Sandushui ponytail embroidery belong?

Sandu Shui people's ponytail embroidery is a geographical indication protection product. Sandu Shui ponytail embroidery is a national intangible cultural heritage.

Sandu, Guizhou Province is the only Shui Autonomous County in China, located in the southeast of Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. The ponytail embroidery of Shui nationality is a special embroidery technique with ponytail as an important raw material, which has been passed down from generation to generation by Shui nationality women. This unique folk traditional craft of the Shui people is distributed in the Shui villages in Sandong, Zhonghe, Tingpai, Tang Zhou, Shuilong and other towns and villages in Sandu.

The ponytail embroidery technology of Shui nationality is unique and the embroidery products are exquisite. Some media even called it "the living fossil of embroidery art".

In the long history, ingenious Shui women have created rich and colorful national and folk crafts, and the well-known Shui ponytail embroidery is unique, known as the living fossil of Chinese embroidery, and is a must in the world.

It is a valuable artistic material for studying the folk customs, folk customs, totem worship and national culture of the Shui people. Recently, ponytail embroidery was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, which brought better opportunities for the protection of this ancient primitive art.

Embroidery is a popular folk art in the Shui nationality area, which has a long historical tradition and a broad mass base. Its artistic modeling is rich and colorful, which fully embodies the feelings of the Shui people about life and their persistent pursuit of beautiful things. There are many kinds of embroidery techniques of Shui people, including Ping Xiu, ponytail embroidery, hollow embroidery, pick embroidery, knot embroidery and spiral embroidery.

The history of ponytail embroidery of Shui nationality is not recorded in the relevant materials, but it is a skill that has been passed down for thousands of years and the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancestors of Shui nationality. The traditional water-saving festival (equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality) has the custom of horse racing. It seems that horse racing has a long history. In this long history, Shui women invented the art of ponytail embroidery. In traditional festivals, it has become a beautiful and moving custom for men to race horses and women to wear ponytail embroidery to participate in festival activities.

Perhaps the main reason is that the Shui people have the custom of horse racing, and ponytail embroidery came into being. In fact, this embroidery method of wrapping ponytail with silk thread has two obvious advantages. One is that ponytail is hard in texture, which can make the pattern difficult to deform, and the other is that ponytail is not easy to deteriorate at 1 and is durable. In addition, ponytail may contain grease, which is beneficial to maintain the luster of peripheral silk.

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Another feature of ponytail embroidery is that it is decorated with bronze ornaments. The bronze ornaments are shaped like ancient coins, but they are very small, and the thin diameter is only the size of soybeans. They wear ponytails and embroider red lines, such as small flowers. In addition to decoration, Shui compatriots also believe that copper has the function of exorcism. In feudal society, copper was a coin-making thing. In some dynasties, people were forbidden to cast copper, but there were bronze ornaments in the ponytail embroidery of the Shui people. This is another valuable place to embody ponytail.

With the changes of the times, the ponytail embroidery art is also changing. The main colors of the two suspenders have changed. Before liberation, the suspenders were mainly yellow. It is associated with the feudal society that yellow is noble, and the color of suspenders after liberation is mainly red, which is the same as the concept that red is auspicious today.

In the local area, people regard whether they are proficient in embroidery as a sign to judge whether a girl is smart or not. When the girls here get married, the mother should prepare a ponytail embroidered children's strap as her daughter's dowry, wishing her an early birth.

Sandu County, Guizhou Province is the only Shui Autonomous County in China, located in the southeast of Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. Bangao Village, Sandong Township, Autonomous County, is the birthplace of ponytail embroidery. The ponytail embroidery technology here is well-known and the finished products are exported at home and abroad. Girls in Bangao Village have been learning ponytail embroidery skills from their elders since childhood. Usually at the age of ten, you can make your own small crafts. Now, the female citizens in Bangao Village are proficient in ponytail embroidery, which has become a well-known sideline in the village and an important way for the village's economic growth. This unique folk traditional craft of the Shui people is distributed in the Shui villages in Sandong, Zhonghe, Tingpai, Tang Zhou, Shuilong and other towns and villages in Sandu. In the local area, people regard whether they are proficient in embroidery as a sign to judge whether a girl is smart or not. When the girls here get married, the mother should prepare a ponytail embroidered children's strap as her daughter's dowry, wishing her an early birth.

In the long-term process of production and life, Shui women have keen observation and aesthetic ability for all kinds of things in nature. After imagination and processing, they reflect all natural things and folk customs on the ponytail embroidery technology. The flowers, birds, insects and fish on the embroidery are unique in shape, full of national charm and artistic effect.

A peculiar feature of ponytail embroidery is that it is decorated with bronze ornaments. The bronze ornaments are shaped like ancient coins, but they are very small, and the thin diameter is only the size of soybeans. They wear ponytails and embroider red lines, such as small flowers. In addition to decoration, Shui compatriots also believe that copper has the function of exorcism. In feudal society, copper was a coin-making thing. In some dynasties, people were forbidden to cast copper, but there were bronze ornaments in the ponytail embroidery of the Shui people. This is another valuable place to embody ponytail.

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Sandu County, Guizhou Province is now the administrative region under its jurisdiction.

Letter of Sandu County People's Government on Delimitating the Protection Scope of Geographical Indication Products of Horsetail Embroidery of Sandu Shui Nationality, Sanduhan [2015] No.3.

Local standard of Qiannan Prefecture in Guizhou Province: DB522700/T075-20 15 "Sandushui Mawei Embroidery".