Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional virtues - Eleven or twelve women comb their hair and thirteen women teach embroidery. What information did you get from this poem?

Eleven or twelve women comb their hair and thirteen women teach embroidery. What information did you get from this poem?

"Twelve girls comb their hair and thirteen girls teach embroidery." When Wenzhou girls still need to "comb their hair", they learned Ou embroidery. Wenzhou girls have been forced to follow art since childhood, and Wenzhou people attach importance to Ou embroidery, a traditional craft, which has been passed down from generation to generation.

Ou embroidery, also known as painting curtain, is one of the traditional arts of Han nationality in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, which is produced in Oujiang area. As one of the six famous embroideries in China, it is also one of the "three sculptures and one embroidery" special handicrafts in Zhejiang, which is developed from the traditional embroidery in China. Ou embroidery is one of the famous export embroideries in China. It is not only treasured by the state, but also given as a national gift, which is called "embroidery diplomacy". In ancient times, Wenzhou girls had a fine tradition of embroidery, that is, "1 1 girl combs her hair, 12 girls teach embroidery".