Shanxi Embroidered Mother Saved &Nbsp For 3000 Years; She Wanted To Build "Embroidery Village".

"In the hometown of a" embroidery village ", let Houma Embroidery From generation to generation. Shanxi Guo Meiling, an ordinary village woman in Houma, Linfen, has such a "worry".

According to the Linfen cultural relics department, there are "Jin embroidery" records and relics found in the tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the tombs of Jiang County in Shanxi, which have a history of 3000 years ago. Guo Meiling's "Houma embroidery" is a kind of "Jin embroidery".

Guo Meiling was born in a remote but beautiful mountain village in Shanxi. He was deeply impressed by his ancestors and became Shanxi embroidery rapidly in recent years. Commoner The leader of paper cutting.

The local people said Guo's great grandmother was a famous and skillful hand in the early Qing Dynasty. Her grandmother is also the local "clever daughter-in-law". She was chosen to embroider the wedding dress for the lady of the county's imperial family. Her embroidery has survived to the fifth generation.

On the 13 day, when reporters saw Guo Meiling, who was over five years old in Houma, she was explaining embroidery needles to her disciples in her own embroidery workshop. The light embroidery needles flow between fingers, with the flowers winding up and down on the bottom cloth, and a flower butterfly on the coarse cloth is vivid and vivid.

Guo Meiling's embroidery works are unique. She applied the technique of paper cutting to embroidery, and then combined with cloth art to form fine works of art, such as characters, flowers, animals, and costumes.

Ma Gangquan, Secretary of the Party branch of Guo Cun, Houma, said that the embroidery art of Guo also inherited the characteristics of the combination of Jin embroidery court and the folk. Some embroidered shoes, such as "embroidered shoes", folk wedding "sedan chair shoes" and court costumes, had been reproduced in her embroidery workshop. Her original scissors art has revived the technique of cutting and cutting silk that China had lost since the Han Dynasty two thousand years ago.

According to Ma Gangquan, when he founded the professional textile and craft professional cooperative, Guo Meiling specifically visited some 80 year old artists in the region, collecting and collate their folk customs, embroidery and needlework skills, and imparting skills to local people. So far, there are more than 600 people.

In 2009, "Houma embroidery" was identified as "the intangible cultural heritage of Shanxi". Guo Meiling himself also won the title of "the outstanding inheritor of Shanxi intangible cultural heritage" and "the outstanding inheritor of Chinese folk culture".