Batik is a traditional festival of which ethnic group

Batik, Miao, Buyi and other ethnic minorities folk traditional textile printing and dyeing handicrafts, the ancient name of wax, and stranded val (tie-dye), clip val (hollow printing) and known as China's ancient three major printing techniques. Guizhou, Yunnan Miao, Buyi and other ethnic groups specialize in batik. Batik is to use wax knife dipped in molten wax to draw flowers on the cloth with indigo dyeing, both dyeing and wax, the cloth will show a variety of patterns of white flowers on a blue background or blue flowers on a white background, at the same time, in the dyeing and dipping, as a dyeing agent, the wax naturally cracked, so that the cloth shows a special "ice pattern", especially charming. Because of the richness of batik patterns, color and elegance, unique style, used in the production of clothing and all kinds of daily necessities, appear simple and generous, fresh and pleasant, rich in national characteristics.

Batik, the ancient name "wax val". It is one of the traditional folk printing and dyeing techniques. It is a kind of traditional handmade printing and dyeing technique that uses wax as the anti-dyeing material. According to evidence, "batik" in the literature of the earliest and most accurate record of the word is the Tang Dynasty Hui Lin wrote "all the sutra sound righteousness" Volume 50 of the "all val": "Today, it is said that the western countries have a light juice, the point of the into the val, so the square wax point val. " "Val" is to auxiliary dyes to assist the printing and dyeing process and dyeing fabrics, the emergence of val marks China's ancient silk printing and dyeing techniques significant progress. Batik is still very popular in Buyei, Miao, Yao, Gelao and other ethnic groups, dresses, blankets, bags, etc. are mostly decorated with batik. The main method is to dip the wax knife into the wax liquid, depict geometric designs or patterns of flowers, birds, insects and fish on the white cloth, and then immerse it into the indigo tank (mainly in blue color), and then use water to boil off the wax to show the patterns. The structure is rigorous, the lines are smooth, and the decorative interest is very strong, with a distinctive national style.

The invention of batik is based on people's repeated knowledge and utilization of material properties and requires certain environmental factors and technical conditions, so it is produced and developed under specific material conditions and cultural background. Batik is based on people's need to beautify their costumes and was produced after human civilization had progressed to a certain degree, and it is based on many kinds of dyeing and weaving crafts, so the time when batik was produced should be after the maturity of textile, printing color and painting feed crafts. From the raw materials, batik has no special requirements for fabrics, cotton, linen, silk, wool fabrics can be used; anti-dyeing materials are not bound to specific varieties, animal and plant waxes can be used, usually with resin and beeswax; dyeing can only be used in cold-dyeing process, usually plant dyeing, indigo-based. In terms of scope, batik technology exists in many parts of the world, and there is a wide variety of styles and ways of using it. Due to the influence of geography and climate, batik is not suitable for cold northern regions, so batik is distributed in tropical and subtropical regions.