Huangyuan Tangjiaer ancient city specialty leather embroidery.

Tangjiarpixiu is an excellent handcrafted work of art created by Huangyuan people, with exquisite skills, unique artistic style and rich cultural connotation. It has a history of thousands of years and is a unique folk art on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The work "Plateau Elf" was collected by the Olympic Organizing Committee. Its origin can be traced back to the ancient Qiang times.

Huangyuan, also known as "Xirong Qiang people" in history, is the place where the ancient Qiang people lived. As early as more than 3,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Qiang people who lived here began to simply embroider the original totem symbols with wool, leather ropes and other materials as decorative or sacrificial objects. Since then, in the long development process, with the exchange of various nationalities and cultures, leather embroidery has gradually integrated the embroidery methods and techniques of the north and the south, and cultivated a simple and beautiful artistic style, with more and more rich, complicated and exquisite contents, materials and production techniques. Tangjiaer leather embroidery is becoming more and more mature, and even specialized leather embroidery works have appeared, including landscapes, flowers and birds, figures and religions. The picture is vivid and realistic, covering clothing, ornaments, daily necessities and so on. And the materials used are mostly all kinds of silk thread, wool, ponytail, etc. The whole work is primitive and simple, with rich background, and gradually has distinct artistic personality and regional characteristics, which has become a magnificent highlight in national culture.

Leather embroidery is made of various special leather materials, wool, leather rope, horse hair, silk, velvet, cotton and other colors of embroidery thread, with more than 70 kinds of stitches such as Ping Xiu, net embroidery, board embroidery and zipper embroidery. According to different themes, different images, different textures and different requirements, various colors of embroidery thread are selected to form various beautiful images and patterns. The structure and reality.

Leather embroidery includes not only the appreciated works of art, but also beautiful and applicable daily necessities. It can embroider natural scenery, flowers, birds, fish and insects, birds and beasts, portraits and other patterns, and the pictures are colorful and varied.

Nowadays, after artistic innovation, Tangkapi embroidery has adopted various modern embroidery techniques and new materials on the basis of retaining the tradition, making its forms more diverse and subject matter more extensive, and integrating techniques such as pile embroidery, plate embroidery, Tibetan embroidery and embroidery. And select educational allusions, literary works, folk stories, legends, local natural features, cultural relics and historical sites, and folk art to make Tangjiaer Pixiu more vivid and vivid.