What is a flower wrapped around a mother?

Bao Hua hairpin is the person who makes Bao Hua hairpin.

My mother is a person who makes handmade hair clips. Hairpin is an essential jewelry for Manchu women to comb all kinds of bun. Usually, Manchu women like to embed precious materials such as gold, silver, pearl jade, agate and coral in their hair, such as big earplugs, small earplugs, beads, sideburns, crown hair and tap hair. Nowadays, Bao Hua has been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage.

Basic introduction

Perhaps most people will be unfamiliar with baohua, but as a traditional art project in China, the artistic flavor of baohua itself is unquestionable and undeniable. And wrapping flowers, like hairpin flowers, is a flower-making technology. The difference is that, compared with the well-known hairpin flower, the branch-bound flower technology is little known, and now most of it has been lost.

Only Hubei, Fujian, Taiwan Province and other places in China are scattered and preserved. Flower wrapping, as the name implies, is to wrap flowers and works of art in various shapes on a pre-fixed blank frame with silk threads of various colors. According to some old folk artists, the flower wrapping technique originated in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, but it has hardly been handed down.

Most of the current collections are newly developed flower-wrapping works during the Republic of China. The flower-wrapping techniques have been circulated for some time after the liberation of China, but there are few remaining collections.