Origin of Qiang Embroidery

In the Qiang area, Qiang people wearing national costumes can be seen everywhere, with beautiful patterns on their clothes, mostly hand-embroidered, and these embroideries can be said to have a long history in the history of the Qiang people. Qiang embroidery, folk crafts done by rural women in between their labor, and most of today's Qiang people still maintain the custom of wearing traditional national costumes.

Yunyun shoes and embroidered girths are the most representative crafts of Qiang embroidery. There are other Tibetan-style bags, satchels, hats, serge,

felt, mattresses, wall hangings and so on, all of which are also exquisite.　Embroidery itself is on the fabric with a needle threading the color threads embroidered into the pattern, is China's traditional art crafts, while the Qiang embroidery has its own unique aesthetic value, aesthetic modeling, decorative motifs and color norms, contains a deep Qiang history and cultural connotations. As early as in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Qiang embroidery was already prevalent, and then it gradually absorbed the technique of flower picking and developed into flower picking embroidery. Flower picking and embroidery have always been the specialty of Qiang women, and almost every Qiang woman is good at flower picking and embroidery. Almost every Qiang woman is good at embroidery. As the saying goes, "one learns to cut, two learns to tailor, and three learns to pick flowers and embroider cloth shoes", they have received strict training since they were young. Embroidery has become an important standard for measuring the intelligence of a Qiang woman. Especially on the eve of their marriage is the climax of their embroidery. They put their hard-working hands, intelligence, simple nature and artistic talents together in this art world, and "Yunyun Shoes" is a piece of fertile soil in this art world, with unique artistic value and ethnic cultural flavor.

Editing individual items

Yunyun shoes" shoes look like a small boat, the tip of the shoe is slightly curved, the soles are thicker, the upper embroidered with colorful cloud and azalea patterns pattern, Yunyun shoes

So the "cloud shoes", "flower shoes" or "flower shoes", "cloud shoes", "flower shoes", "flower shoes", "flower shoes", "flower shoes", "flower shoes", "flower shoes", "flower shoes", "flower shoes" or "flower shoes". Yunyun Shoes", "Flower Shoes" or "Hook Pointed Cloth Shoes", Qiang people like to wear them on festive days. Qiang embroidery "Yun Yun shoes" craft with the help of the dense stitches, cotton thread embroidery in the shoes easy to wear parts of the body, to enhance the wear-resistant performance, so that the body of the shoes not only has a practical value, but also has a fairly high artistic ornamental value, not only shows the Qiang Yun Yun shoes craft skills, but also reflects it as a part of the culture of the Qiang people, originating from the life and higher than the life, enriching the artistic characteristics of life. It also reflects its artistic characteristics as a part of Qiang culture, originating from life but higher than life and enriching life.

Related Information

The Qiang's ancient costumes are characterized by the most distinctive feature, the felt production process is much simpler than the production of textile cloth, and the age of the Qiang is 3,000 years old. Literature records, the two Han Ganqing Qiang people "women wearing large Chinese felt for decoration", the Tang and Song dynasties, Qiang felt

has been very popular. The New Book of Tang. Danghang biography" said "men and women fur and brown, was felt". In recent times, the Qiang people have basically inherited the system of robes.

Editing the Qiang Clothing

The traditional clothing of the Qiang people is that both men and women wear long linen shirts, sheepskin kangs, head wraps, waistbands, and wrapped leggings.

The clothing of the Qiang men is usually a blue cloth long shirt, a sheepskin coat and a green head scarf. Men's long shirts above the knee, braid and wrap, belt and tie legs with linen or wool weaving, generally wear grass shoes, cloth shoes or cowhide boots. They usually wear grass shoes, cloth shoes or cowhide boots. They like to wear fire scythes and knives inlaid with coral on their belts.　Qiang women's costumes are more colorful, and they mostly wear blue or green lace long shirts with embroidered aprons and ribbons around their waists, and black bandanas.... Women's shirts are ankle-length, with silver ornaments in the shape of plum blossoms on the collar, lace embroidered on the lapel, cuffs and collar edges, embroidered aprons and belts at the waist, and floral designs embroidered on the belts. Unmarried girls wear plaits and coiffures, with embroidered headscarves. Married women wear buns and embroidered headscarves. They wear Yunyun shoes. Like to wear silver hairpins, earrings, earrings, collar flowers, silver medals, bracelets, rings and other jewelry.