"I want to learn representative traditional embroidery, many people say, is it to learn cross stitch? ...... Of course not!!! !!!PS, I'm in Beijing."

There are many traditional Chinese embroideries, from the Song Dynasty court embroidery, the Ming Dynasty Lu embroidery, Gu embroidery, to the four famous embroideries in the late Qing Dynasty, and even a variety of local embroideries, as well as modern messy needle embroidery, simulation embroidery, portrait embroidery and so on.

At present, the domestic embroidery research is more prominent in the Beijing Shao Xiaocheng Embroidery Research Institute, based on the capital, in line with the history of responsible for the cultural heritage of the concept of responsibility for the famous embroidery of the past dynasties have been research, creation, teaching and inheritance, "in order to the teaching and research of traditional Chinese culture, protection and development, inheritance of exchanges as its own responsibility, the main research projects include the traditional art of embroidery in the vicinity of being lost. lost traditional arts of embroidery, woof and ancient calligraphy and painting."

The content of its research and work includes:

One, accepting customization and reproduction of collections from domestic and foreign museums and private collectors;

Two, appraisal and appreciation of weaving and embroidery collections;

Three, further discovering the millennium silk weaving art of China and striving to restore the ancient techniques, cultivating the younger generation of heirs with higher education backgrounds, and changing the ever-prevailing folk masters' apprentices' The limitations of the folk art of silk weaving, and effectively put an end to the narrow-minded conservative thinking, to avoid the decline of these national cultural wisdom, so that the Chinese silk weaving art and culture can be restored and inherited.

Biography of Shao Xiaogeng:

Embroidery and woof artist, painter, conscious researcher and practitioner of the protection of Chinese embroidery, educator of traditional culture and art

Shao Xiaogeng, also known as Shao Xiaocheng, Shao Xiaocheng, was born in July 1957, and has been engaged in the traditional Chinese silk weaving art with his personal ability. She has been engaged in the research and creation of traditional Chinese embroidery for more than thirty years, covering almost all kinds and schools of embroidery in the past and present, and her research works have been collected by collectors at home and abroad; she has also introduced the art of embroidery into colleges and universities, and has been engaged in the study of "research-practice-protection". -Inheritance - protection" academic experience, opened up in the creation of research, excavation in practice, in the inheritance of the protection of an effective way, specializing in the use of historical evidence combined with the heirloom objects, give full play to personal technical expertise, for the research and excavation of the generations of fine embroidery body, more safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of traditional embroidery, the research works have been collected by collectors at home and abroad. More to defend the protection of traditional embroidery intangible cultural heritage, do unremitting dedication, but also to the recovery of lost embroidery, development, innovation has made remarkable achievements, comprehensive research content over the years, the book "Chinese embroidery appreciation of the treasures" book, dissemination of Chinese embroidery through the ages to appreciate the knowledge of embroidery, often the appreciation of embroidery published in the collection of articles in magazines, by the readers' trust and welcome.

Other staff member of the institute, Xiao Yao, has recently published a book entitled "Appreciation and Investment of Chinese Embroidery and Woof"

Xiao Yao, born in the year of Azi

-Bachelor's degree of Literature from Beijing Normal University, and Master's degree in the direction of Ethnology and literature and blogging from the Central University of Minorities

-State-level arts and crafts masters

-UNESCO International Member of Folk Art Organization

-UNESCO Folk Art Organization. International Member of UNESCO Folk Art Organization

-Delegate of the 2nd and 3rd World Youth Congress of UNESCO Folk Art Organization

-Currently Deputy Director of Shao Xiaoqian Embroidery Research Institute in Beijing

-Winner of "Outstanding Young Inheritor Award" of the World Youth Congress of UNESCO Folk Art Organization in 2010.

-Published many articles on embroidery tasting in "World of Cultural Relics" and other national collection magazines, which are highly praised by collectors

-Professional papers and embroidery and painting works have been published in international symposiums, exhibitions, and won many awards