What are the traditional handicraft cultures in Hubei?

Abstract: Handicraft refers to products made by hand or tools. Mechanical tools can be used, but only if the direct manual labor of craftsmen is still the main source of finished products. Nowadays, with the mass production of large-scale industrial mechanization, the market of handicrafts is gradually weakening. So what other traditional handicraft skills are there in Hubei now? Let's take a look at what traditional handicrafts are still preserved in Hubei with this article! What are the traditional handicraft cultures in Hubei?

1, Cao Zhengxing kitchen knife

Wuhan traditional famous brand products. Before cutting, cut ginger without shredding, meat without cutting tendons, and bone without curling. Cao Zhengxing Knife Shop was founded in the first year of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty. According to the living habits of Hubei people who like to chop bones and simmer soup, a conical cutter head with thin front and thick back was explored. Because of its strict requirements and unique technology in material selection, forging billet, steel clamping and quenching, it is very popular and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.

2. Wuhan leather shoes

It is a famous brand in Wuhan, which is famous for its superior leather, reasonable ingredients, fine workmanship, beautiful appearance and durability. There are many varieties of colors, among which the "Mao Ji" and "Xiu Cheng Ji" leather shoes shop founded in the early years of the Republic of China is the most famous. Maoji hard-headed leather shoes are known as the "king of small squares" and are deeply loved by customers.

3. Turquoise carving

Precious handicrafts in Hubei. Turquoise is produced in Yunxian county of this province, with excellent quality, bright color and strong texture. Wuhan Jade Carving Factory and Hubei Arts and Crafts Factory carry forward traditional techniques and absorb modern western sculpture techniques, forming a local sculpture style with concentrated modeling, full rigor, coordinated proportion and fine carving. Ladies, flowers and birds, animals and other products are novel and lifelike, all of which are excellent works.

4. Wuhan silk flower

On the basis of making grass flowers and scraping velvet flowers, Wuhan artists have absorbed the advantages of North and South silk flowers for more than a hundred years. The raw materials are wheat, satin, silk and spinning. The main products are peony, rose, rose, wintersweet, cliff chrysanthemum, brooch, flower arrangement and bonsai. Form a three-dimensional, realistic and natural style.

5. Wuhan woodcut boat

Founded by Long Yun Hua, it became famous in 1930s. In his life, Long created more than 30 woodcut boats in different styles and waters, such as navigation, inland river and classicism, with vivid images and simple shapes. Among them, the heroine Liang Hongyu's warship, based on the story of the Southern Song Dynasty's resistance to gold, is her masterpiece, which has a strong artistic appeal. After Long Yunhua's death, there were successors in the production of woodcut boats in Wuhan, and a generation of rookies emerged. His works have participated in many national arts and crafts exhibitions and have been selected for exhibitions in the United States, France, Singapore and other countries. At the previous China Export Commodities Fair, orders for woodcut ships in Wuhan were in an endless stream.

6. Huangpi clay sculpture

Huangpi is a famous hometown of clay sculptures, especially Buddha statues. Bodhisattva Mulan Mountain and 500 arhats in Guiyuan Temple are masterpieces of clay sculpture in Huang Bei. In recent years, through innovation, many excellent works with novel themes, ingenious ideas, fine craftsmanship, soft colors and both ornamental and practical values have been created. Such as Mulan, Nezha, the Monkey King, Chaplin and Qipin Sesame Officer, are all praised for their vivid shapes. In addition, funny plastic deformation has also been successful.

7. Plum picking flowers

Similar to embroidery, but not the same, it has a long history and is a unique folk handicraft of Huangmei, which is famous for its exquisite weaving, simplicity and elegance. The traditional flower picking began in the Song Dynasty. Local people use self-spun, self-woven, self-dyed blue-blue-black cloth as the base cloth, and use red, yellow, black, white and green cotton threads to pick out the blue yarn on the base cloth according to a certain coordinate pattern, and then add colored yarn according to the pattern color. Women in Huangmei often decorate headscarves with flowers, which are widely used in daily necessities and decorations such as door curtains, curtains and towels.

Traditional themes include "Carp Fighting for Lotus", "Twin Phoenix Rising in the Sun", "Carp yue longmen" and "Yuanyang Playing in the Water", "Fairy Descending", "Prince and Dancer", "Flour Xi Shou" and "Lion Grabbing for the Ball", etc. These patterns are reasonable in layout, simple and rhythmic. Huangmei embroidery crafts have been selected by the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for many times and exported to Southeast Asian countries.

8. Han embroidery

Wuhan has a long history of traditional crafts, which flourished in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, especially in figures and floral decorations. The stitch of "Ping Jin Embroidery" is different from other famous embroideries in China. It has rich colors and colorful features, and it is suitable for embroidery decoration.

9. Yangxin paste

Yangxin paste is a traditional handicraft of Han nationality in Huangshi City, Hubei Province. The corners cut by local rural women when sewing clothes are mostly on black or dark blue cloth, carefully collaged into various colorful patterns. It is used to decorate clothes, shoes, hats, shawls, curtains, streamers, cloth pillows and children's games. Many newspapers, such as People's Daily, Guangming Daily, China Culture News and Decoration, published pictures and articles, saying that Yangxin Sticker has "unforgettable artistic appeal." There are many kinds of heart-nourishing patches, involving nearly 30 series of household necessities, women's wedding accessories, children's clothes, temple futons and hanging banners. Most of them are animals and plants in daily life and traditional auspicious images.