The art and artifacts of hand embroidery in Hunan are collectively known as Hunan embroidery

Hunan's handmade embroidery art and artwork collectively known as Hunan embroidery is the right phrase.

Xiang embroidery is a general term for embroideries centered in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Xiang embroidery with distinctive characteristics of Hunan and Chu culture, is a specialty of Changsha City, Hunan Province, Hunan working people in the long history of human civilization, created a folk craft with Hunan and Chu culture.

Xiang embroidery originated from Hunan folk embroidery, which was developed by absorbing the advantages of Suzhou embroidery and Guangdong embroidery, and has a long history of more than 2,000 years ago. Forty or so pieces of embroidered clothing were unearthed in the Western Han Dynasty tombs in Mawangdui, Changsha, indicating that Xiang embroidery had already developed to a high level during the Western Han Dynasty. Hunan embroidery is one of the four famous embroideries in China and is a national geographical indication product of China, which has participated in international fairs held in Japan and Bama.

Story of Hunan Embroidery:

In the 24th year of Guangxu (1898), Wu Hanchen, the son of Hu Lianxian, an excellent embroiderer, opened the first self-embroidery and self-sale "Wu Caixia Embroidery Workshop" in Changsha, and his works were so fine that they were spread all over the country, and the embroidery was famous all over the country. In the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Shichuo, a painter in Ningxiang, advocated Hunan folk embroidery, and for a long time went into the embroidery workshop to draw embroidery scripts, and also created a variety of needlework, which improved the level of Hunan embroidery art.

The end of Guangxu, Hunan folk embroidery developed into a unique embroidery craft system, and became a handicraft commodity with independent style and strong local color into the market, at this time, "Hunan embroidery" such a specialized title came into being.

In the long process of development, Hunan embroidery also gradually cultivated a simple and beautiful artistic style. Embroidery artists transplanted the fine tradition of Chinese painting to embroidery, skillfully combining Chinese painting, embroidery, poetry, calligraphy, and jinshi into one, creating embroidery that "embroidered flowers give birth to fragrance, embroidered birds can be heard, embroidered tigers can run, and embroiderers can convey the spirit of the embroidery".