China Textile Federation’s inspection delegation to Guizhou Miao embroidery industry visited Huangping and Danzhai
On July 14, the China Textile Industry Federation went to Guizhou Miao embroidery industry inspection team and visited Huangping County and Danzhai County. We visited the National Costume Street in Longzhen Resettlement Site, Huangping County Mogui Miao Costume Factory, Plum Blossom Hand Embroidery Professional Cooperative, and visited Ninghang Batik.
The fifth stop
Huangping County
On the morning of July 14, the China National Textile and Apparel Council went to Guizhou Miao Embroidery Industry Investigation Team to Huangping County for investigation.
In recent years, Huangping County has adopted a new model of “Party Branch + Jinxiu Plan + Rural Women” to encourage Miao women to combine traditional embroidery skills with modern life and fashion creativity, and transform traditional Miao embroidery skills into modern consumer goods. It has vigorously promoted the development of the Miao embroidery industry, enabling more and more Miao women to embroider a better life with their own hands.
While visiting the ethnic costume street in the resettlement site of Gulong Town, Huangping County, the research team happened to come across a market held every five days in the town. The market was crowded and very lively, and everyone felt the excitement. A daily life of local ethnic minorities.
The stalls are filled with a variety of daily necessities, mainly clothing. Local Miao women are carefully selecting Miao embroidery products and trying them on. It is understood that a purely hand-embroidered Miao traditional The costumes cost about 12,000 yuan, and it takes an embroiderer one and a half years to complete. However, currently, manufacturers cooperate with multiple embroiderers to divide the fabric of a garment into multiple parts. After matching the embroidery threads, they are distributed to different embroiderers respectively. The embroiderers then accept the work according to the standards, and the embroiderers are paid on a piece-rate basis.
Accompanied by Huangping County People’s Congress Standing Committee Director Liu Guangxin, Deputy Director Lei Guanghua, County Party Committee Standing Committee Member and Deputy County Magistrate Ma Jihong, County Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau Director Wu Tao and other leaders, the delegation also arrived at Huangping County’s model Miao costumes Factory and Plum Blossom Hand Embroidery Professional Cooperative conducted surveys. After communicating with the company leaders, we learned in detail about the development of the Miao embroidery industry, product types, market sales and other development conditions, and watched embroiderers embroidery, sewing, silk drawing, and spinning on the spot. Practical operations such as thread and brocade weaving, and appreciation of the patterns and stitching techniques of each Miao embroidery work and Miao costumes (Miao costumes).
According to Zheng Rongjiang, director of the Huangping County Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Huangping County organizes embroidery competitions and uses traditional festivals such as Gulong’s “927” Lusheng Festival and Feiyunya’s “April 8th” Miao Cow Sacrifice Festival. Miao embroidery is a living display, Miao embroidery training classes are held in Miao villages, and measures such as establishing a management mechanism for inheritors to pass on, help, and guide are established to increase the inheritance and protection of Miao embroidery, in order to revitalize national culture, develop rural tourism, and promote local economy make positive contributions to development.
Huang Pingmo Gui Miao Costume Factory was established in May 2017. It is dedicated to the research, development, design and production of Miao costumes and Miao embroidery works. As of now, the factory has more than 20 kinds of Miao costume brands and Miao embroidery products. In 2020, the total sales volume was more than 200,000 yuan and the profit was more than 80,000 yuan, creating employment for more than 50 rural Miao women (including temporary employees). The person in charge, Long Mogui, also said that among the embroiderers in the costume factory, five are county-level inheritors and two are national embroidery masters with professional titles. As the leader, Long Mogui attaches great importance to the promotion of local Miao embroidery and impatiently introduces the pattern stories to the delegation.
Huangping County Plum Blossom Hand Embroidery Professional Cooperative is located in Railway Station Village, Gulong Town, Huangping County. It is a typical cooperative workshop supported by the town government. The workshop is not large, but the products on display are relatively rich, and you can also see the scene of hand reeling. . The main business of the cooperative is handicrafts and clothing processed and sold by hand embroidery and hand needlework. Under the leadership of legal person Liu Changying, more than 80 rural Miao women have been employed. In order to effectively protect and inherit the Miao costumes and Miao embroidery culture, Liu Changying often actively participates in various competitions and exchange activities in the province. The embroidery she designed and produced has won many awards. Liu Changying also carries out Miao embroidery training activities. So far, she has taught apprentices. More than 500 people.
Sixth stop
Danzhai County
On the afternoon of July 14, the China National Textile and Apparel Council’s inspection delegation to Guizhou’s Miao embroidery industry arrived at its sixth stop, Danzhai County.
After visiting Ninghang Batik, I deeply felt the charm that batik technology brings to the times. Painting girls in national costumes quickly turned the wax knife in their hands, and their skillful hands made the wax paintings appear on the fabric instantly. They like large flowers with natural patterns as the main materials. Natural patterns use flowers, birds, fish and insects in nature as materials, and they can create unique patterns at will. The shapes are vivid, lively and smooth, among which birds have the most abundant changes, and their imagination is extremely bold, concise and expressive. , rich in rustic flavor and full of fairy tale-like dreamy color.
Famous fashion designer Cheng Hao took everyone to visit the batik production process, classic works exhibition hall, product exhibition and sales hall, and introduced to the delegation the founder of Guizhou Danzhai Ninghang Batik Co., Ltd. “Ning Mama” and the Miao ethnic group The touching story of “Venus” Yang Erlang’s painting girl. Over the past 12 years, Ning Manli has led nearly 200 Miao painters from 8 villages in Danzhai County, adhering to the “group of”One person, one life, one thing” concept, using crafts to start a business, find a job, get rid of poverty and become rich. Yang Erlang is one of Ning Manli’s followers. She lost her right arm due to an accident in her early years. Now she uses her left hand to draw dreams with everyone, her wax paintings The work has been used in designer Cheng Hao’s fashion and moved from Danzhai to London Fashion Week. Cheng Hao and Hua Niang joined forces to use the power of design to revitalize batik and realize the economic and cultural value of Miao batik. and social value.
At present, there are 178 people working in Ninghang Batik, and the number of registered poor households is 28, including 48 resident painters, with an average salary of 3,500 yuan per month; orders have driven 8 villages, and 130 painters are at home. Relying on batik to increase income, the per capita income increased by 8,000 yuan/year.
After the visit and discussion, Zeng Qingrong, a member of the inspection team, chairman of Songlei Group and president of Harbin Cultural Industry Association, was moved by their ingenuity and decided to launch a long-term cooperation with Ninghang Batik with an upfront payment of 100,000 yuan. Product orders serve as the beginning of cooperation. Zeng Qinghua said that these painters and dyers are good daughters of the Miao people. They use wax knives and dyeing cloths to adhere to the beliefs passed down by our ancestors. They are worthy of respect and their works will be fully displayed on all cultural platforms through different carriers. exhibit.
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