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"Emerald beads were, rotten Qi light. The text was served by the fiber, Li and not strange." -- Qu Yuan

Han embroidery, has a history of 2300 years, it began in Han, the rise of the Tang and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. Its long history can be traced back to the Warring States period, when the silk weaving industry in Chu was already quite developed.

In Qu Yuan's "Chu Rhetoric - Invoking the Soul", there are poems describing the luxurious silk fabrics of the Chu Palace. The Chu people sewed Han embroidery on their clothes and in their purses, which is a memento left to their deceased and a daily necessity within their reach, and it has evolved into a non-heritage item until now.

Han embroidery for the elderly Zhang Xian Song, not only a craft, but also his "second life", in his mind to do Han embroidery, is a romantic thing, it comes from life, is the needle and thread to give life to the fabric. But it is also a very difficult thing, because he has to take 3,000 pensions per month to subsidize the money to collect apprentices to pass on the art.

First encounter Han embroidery, "love at first sight"

Chu tomb excavated a large number of silk embroidery, is the world's earliest surviving embroidery in kind, known as the ancestor of embroidery. A robe of magnificence, opened the Han embroidery marveled, Guanpansheng posture, but a lifetime of years and the mystery of life, are embroidered into this amazing robe, embroidered into the shock of our hearts and feelings.

History records, the ancient Chu land, because of its special geographic environment, for the spread of the development of Han embroidery provides a cultural soil. Han embroidery fusion of northern and southern embroidery method to take its strengths. The flow of time for thousands of years, the hands of the needle and thread back and forth in a circular gesture, never stopped. How many delicate and tranquil time, accompanied by a small embroidery needle, is the daily practice of craftsmen.

The old man Zhang Xiansong, is the inheritor of the ancient craft of Han embroidery, but also Hubei Province, the only "Han embroidery" provincial intangible cultural heritage inheritor. When he was in junior high school, Zhang Xian Song experienced the feeling of love at first sight, which is different from love at first sight in love, because the other is Han embroidery.

The first time I recognized the Han embroidery was when Zhang Xiansong was in junior high school, because I lived close to the door of the Han embroidery factory, and I had to pass by here after school. Every time he passed by, he would stop and admire the embroidery works displayed in the window. Later, he chose to study for a teacher's degree and joined the workforce to teach in elementary schools, neither of which he felt suited him personally.

In 1961, Zhang Xiansong quit his job and entered an embroidery factory as an apprentice. At that time, the embroidery factory was also called the embroidery production cooperative, compared with other people's education is considered to be high, the leadership of the unit are very fond of him, so he arranged for him and Li Yushan to learn embroidery design, and at the same time also opened up the Zhang Xiansong to the Han embroidery up to 58 years of perseverance.

The first day of work, the master painted python robe on the embroidery satin, no draft directly on the hand, which made Zhang Xian Song was very surprised and y touched. Followed by Master Li learned half a year later, a Han opera troupe by the city of Sha mainly do costumes, props and choreography of the craftsmen selected, conveyed through others, asked Zhang Xiansong willing to learn with him, from then on, he learned Han embroidery design during the day in the factory and Master Li, and at night to the theater troupe to learn Han embroidery props production.

Han embroidery also has art requirements for craftsmen, who want to learn Han embroidery should have certain art skills. In elementary school, Zhang Xiansong's hand was injured by a bomb, in order to exercise the fingers, find some needlework to do at home, and occasionally draw some of their favorite small things, became the backbone of the school's art, but also with the folk Chinese painting artist Ma Huishan teacher learned for a while. In junior high school, the biology class wall charts are basically Zhang Xiansong painting.

Always adhere to, only for the inheritance

Decades of perseverance, Han embroidery for the 77-year-old Zhang Xiansong old man, more is the responsibility, he can not let this craft is lost, but also can not bear to see it become dull and forgotten. A move, a relaxation, in the view of Zhang Xiansong, that is the connection between people and things, endless.

Today, Zhang Xiansong put all his energy into the creation of Chinese embroidery, Songtao Villa and the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is only a few dozen meters apart, but occupies his entire day of life and work, a few years as one day in the two points for the embroidery of cultivation, dedication. As the only inheritor of Jingsha Han embroidery, cultivating successors for Han embroidery and finding a way out of Han embroidery is Zhang Xiansong's biggest worry at present.

So every month 4000 pension he will take out 3000 are used in the heritage of Chinese embroidery, but after all, Chinese embroidery is a slow work, and the contemporary young people are too impatient, and then rely on the Chinese embroidery can not support themselves, so in the end, Zhang Xiansong under the hands of full-time study of embroidery is only one person, the formation of such a situation, can not help but pathetic two words came out of his mouth.

Cultivating a successor, but there is no market, is the biggest problem facing the Han embroidery. Han embroidery is a folk art, it is too strong ethnic color, and now the fast food culture is not close.

Han embroidery fuses the four major embroidery techniques, so some people think that Han embroidery is a kind of nothingness, and some even call it unorthodox, making the communication with other embroidery culture in the interval.

The life of Han embroidery is romantic and eventful. In that era of war, the Japanese fire embroidery street, artists were displaced. Cultural Revolution to break the Four Olds, artists bear the pain of burning all their embroidery, style, Han embroidery nearly cut off, "sparse shadow curtain bar on the embroidered ping pong, want to tears first ." All sorts of unfortunate encounters have not worn out its light, it still exists to amaze the world.

Those rich colors, hidden in the understanding of beauty, Han embroidery can have a variety of carriers, it can be birds and beasts, ink and color, can also be a bowl of tea, elegant and light, in a familiar way, the preparation of unknown landscapes, which may be the Han embroidery of the "secret".

In the view of many people, Han embroidery is a kind of unattainable things, in fact, Han embroidery nothing else, in the full, simple and common on these words, the beauty of the beauty, due to the person and the manifestation of the only human favor and perseverance in order to let the beauty of Han embroidery in the new era continue to shine.

April 29, 2011, the Wuchang District Government to create a Han embroidery base in Tumhualin, for the development of Han embroidery set up a trilogy, today in the Han embroidery masters like Zhang Xiansong's efforts, the pulse of Han embroidery once again with the times closely linked to the Han embroidery reborn in the fire, the phoenix nirvana.

It is no longer an elegant object in the museum, but you can stop and fondle the beauty of the Han embroidery to inherit the tradition of pushing the boundaries of bold improvements to the traditional techniques of interpretation of modern fashion, and became the source of inspiration for the design of other areas, flying threads and traveling needles embroidered between the new sparkling.

No pity for the lonely, craftspeople with the hands of the embroidery needle to continue to write beautiful, so that we seem to catch a glimpse of Han embroidery again after the story of the colorful stitches. I hope that people on the Han embroidery, or traditional culture like Han embroidery a little more patience and a little more tolerance, but also hope that in the near future, there are more "Zhang Xiansong", love Han embroidery, like love their own lives.