Han embroidery enters “China’s beautiful countryside” Xiangshan Village, Xinzhou, Wuhan, Hubei Province
Cangbu Street, Xinzhou District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, was originally named “Qilong Town” and has a history of more than 2,000 years; and Xiangshan Village, an ancient village located in the backing store of Cangbu Street, is now It is also one of China’s most beautiful leisure villages on the national list. On July 28, with the support of the Ministry of Education’s Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance Base (Han Embroidery), the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Xinzhou District Youth League Committee, the Cangbu Street Youth League Working Committee and the Women’s Federation, a group of 16 people from Wuhan Textile University’s Han Embroidery Inheritance Practice Team People came to Xiangshan Village to carry out Wuhan’s “New Youth Going to the Rural Areas” in 2021 – “Han Embroidery Art Enters the Rural Areas, Young People’s Creative Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage” practical activities. The inheritors and college students taught the villagers how to understand and embroider Han Embroidery , make works to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China with traditional craftsmanship of intangible cultural heritage.
Xiangshan Village is an ancient village composed of 10 villager groups, 386 households, and 1,462 villagers. As soon as you walk into it, you will see a large number of Huizhou-style buildings with green tiles, white walls, and cornices. The walls and stone walls are covered with colorful paintings, with small bridges, flowing water, and low hanging wickers interspersed among them. According to reports, Xiangshan Village has demolished 4 natural bays, built 12 Jiangnan-style residential buildings, and resettled 181 households of demolished residents through additions and reductions since 2014; in 2015, the Beautiful Countryside Project was approved, and within three years it has reached a high levelQuality Completed the renovation of 215 households in the beautiful countryside project, built new cultural squares, closed football fields, basketball courts and other infrastructure to attract young entrepreneurs and create a city based on “innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship” The concept of agricultural entrepreneurship industry. In 2019, Xiangshan Village was listed in the “China’s Beautiful Leisure Villages 2019” by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, becoming the most beautiful “Maker Village” in the country, with dozens of technological innovation, It is a cultural and creative enterprise and has a resounding name – Patron Town. On the basis of increasing the income of villagers, the sub-district and Xiangshan Village Party branch are also paying more and more attention to improving the cultural quality of villagers and the rural cultural environment. Therefore, they very much welcome the Han Embroidery inheritance team of Spangda to enter Xiangshan Village, and through Han embroidery, the most representative of Wuhan City This unique intangible cultural heritage project allows the villagers to have a glimpse of the thousand-year history of Wuhan and the ingenuity of Jingchu women.
In the morning, Teacher Wang Yan, the representative inheritor of Han Embroidery at the municipal level, popularized the Han Embroidery intangible cultural heritage project to more than 60 villagers at the scene through PPT and physical explanations of Han Embroidery works. Teacher Wang said that Han embroidery is an outstanding representative of folk embroidery in the Jingchu area. It not only carries the essence of thousands of years of folk traditional culture in Wuhan and Jingchu area, but its pattern shape, color and composition also have the aesthetic characteristics of Jingchu.
After the lecture, 30 villagers began to practice Han embroidery under the guidance of college students. The villagers were divided into five groups. The team designed different embroidery drafts and appropriate stitching methods for each group, and guided each villager in color matching, drafting, and embroidery. Finally, the embroidery pieces were processed into bags, pendants, necklaces, Practical items for daily use such as bracelets and decorative paintings. Through a day of practice, the villagers felt and experienced the traditional handicraft of Han embroidery, learned basic stitching techniques, and completed a handmade work that can be used in daily life. Villager Zhou Xiumei embroidered a piece of Tiananmen Square and said happily that she had never touched embroidery before, and she was very happy to do it this time. Han embroidery is so beautiful and interesting, and there are so many beautiful meanings in the pattern. I hope you will do it next time I want to come here to learn… Villager He Guixiang made an embroidered handbag and was so happy that she embroidered her name on the bag…
During the one-day practice, the team also took to the streets to conduct a questionnaire survey on “Han Embroidery Helps Rural Revitalization” and randomly interviewed cadres of streets, villages, women’s federations and villagers, hoping to understand the rural attitude towards traditional crafts and intangible cultural heritage. Understand and disseminate the current situation, and provide suggestions for reviving traditional crafts and exploring local cultural resources.
During the summer vacation, the team will continue to popularize and teach Chinese embroidery to villagers and left-behind children in rural areas of Xinzhou, produce works, and complete questionnaire surveys. In mid-to-late August, the team will also hold an exhibition of practical achievements in the countryside, “Han Embroidery Art Enters the Rural Areas, Embroidering Spiritual Shows and Presenting Gifts to Jingchu for Centenary”. The exhibition includes red memory, nine-headed bird, and melon embroidery designed and embroidered by team members. Han embroidery works such as Mian Mian and Classic of Mountains and Seas, Fu Blessing Nine Provinces embody the traditional culture of Jingchu and the villagers’ hands-on practice, and present traditional handicrafts to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. By giving full play to the professional expertise of art college students, allowing Han embroidery to be brought to the countryside, the excellent traditional culture of Jingchu can be internalized into the villagers’ own cultural cognition through an immersive experience. It can not only serve as skills training for rural women, but also explore familyEmploymentThe possibility of increasing income, and more importantly, promoting the spread of local traditional culture in the countryside and promoting the cultural development of beautiful countryside.
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