Some people say: The history of the Miao people is worn on their bodies. Since there are no words, the embroidery on clothing has become a carrier for the Miao compatriots to inherit their culture. From creation myths to heroic epics, from mountains and rivers to vegetation and livestock, from history to life, Miao embroidery is an encyclopedia of the Miao people.
“I have watched my mother do Qing Miao embroidery since I can remember.” Lu Yinfei, a Miao woman, is the general manager of Qian Minglu Miao Embroidery Inheritance and Development Co., Ltd. in Nayong County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province, and is also a municipal-level Miao clothing non-profit organization. Hereditary inheritor. She has been learning Miao embroidery from her mother since she was 6 years old. The Qing Miao are the smallest of the four Miao branches in Nayong County. They live in the mountains and forests. They are a “ethnic group left behind in the mountains and forests.” They used needles as pens and threads as ink to embroider their migration memories on their clothes.
Lu Yinfei said that Qingmiao embroidery techniques include yarn embroidery, paper-cut embroidery, weaving embroidery, batik embroidery, collage embroidery, yarn embroidery, rolling embroidery, pan embroidery, etc., including the “tribe emblem” with totemic meaning. “type animal patterns, such as ox, dragon, phoenix, fish, etc., each pattern represents a different meaning.
“I am confident that our Qing Miao culture will be well inherited, promoted and developed.” Now using the company’s platform, Lu Yinfei organizes the Miao women in the village to produce Miao embroidery cultural and creative products to bring to everyone A lot of economic income has come.
In order to better inherit and promote the excellent traditional culture of Miao embroidery, Bijie City actively encourages inheritors to carry out the inheritance of Miao embroidery and batik skills through family methods, mentoring apprentices, and building workshops. There are 14 representative inheritors of Miao embroidery at or above the municipal level in the city. Each person is subsidized with inheritance funds of 5,000 yuan per year. There are also irregular intangible cultural heritage funds at all levels to support the development of Miao embroidery.
What belongs to the nation belongs to the world. Today’s characteristic Miao embroidery is both culture and industry. There are nearly one million Miao compatriots in Bijie City, who promote rural revitalization while inheriting and promoting traditional culture. Here, the traditional ethnic culture represented by Miao embroidery is facing unprecedented development opportunities.
In the twelfth lunar month, the spirit of the new year is getting stronger. In the Miao embroidery shop in Qianxi Huawu Village, Bijie, there are a dazzling array of exquisite handmade Miao embroidery clothing and special trinkets; in the poverty alleviation workshop, workers are busy sewing and sewing. Order.
You Huazhong, the person in charge of the workshop, said: “This is an industry that leads the masses to increase their income and become rich, and it must be made bigger and stronger. In 2021, the poverty alleviation workshop received more than 1,000 sets of Miao clothing orders, with an output value of nearly 3 million yuan. At present, A 1,000-square-meter Miao embroidery production workshop is under construction. Once put into operation, the production capacity will be greatly improved. We are also cooperating with a clothing production company in Huadu District, Guangzhou to explore integrating Miao embroidery elements into fashionable clothing to make Miao embroidery products more attractive. Many consumers.”
In Xiaotuoluo Miao Village, Dazhai Village, Guanzhai Township, Zhijin County, embroiderers gather in groups, either sitting around and communicating, or sitting around doing embroidery. Cai Qunzheng, the intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Miao embroidery, goes from house to house, instructing the embroiderers on their stitching techniques and making phone calls to discuss orders. The Caiqun Miao Batik Embroidery Co., Ltd. she founded has just successfully signed an order worth 5 million yuan.
Cai Qun was very excited when talking about his Miao embroidery career. General Secretary Xi Jinping praised Miao embroidery when he visited Guizhou on the eve of the Spring Festival last year: Miao embroidery is both traditional and fashionable. You embroider it stitch by stitch, how wonderful it is! The embroiderers were all inspired and their confidence increased greatly. Today, their Miao embroidery products are not only popular in surrounding counties and cities, but also exported to Shanghai, Guangdong and overseas markets. “This craft passed down from our ancestors is very valuable! It can help us live a good life. My daughter will also learn and inherit Miao embroidery in the future!” Cai Qun said.
At present, embroiderers in Xiaotuoluo Miao Village can earn an average of about 4,000 yuan a month. During the busy season, it is not unusual for young and skillful embroiderers to earn 10,000 yuan.
At the 2021 Shenzhen Cultural Expo, Bijie City built an exhibition hall with the theme of “Bijie, a Paradise and a Sea of Flowers”. Miao embroidery and other ethnic cultural and creative products were loved and paid attention to by the exhibitors. Zhang Min, member of the Standing Committee of the Qianxi Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department of Bijie City, said that as an embroidery skill inherited by the Miao people, Miao embroidery has fine workmanship and complex craftsmanship. It is famous for its beautiful composition, strong national style, and rich colors, and is known as It’s called “advanced customization” hidden in the mountains.
In 2021, Qianxi also increased its support for the Miao traditional clothing industry, supported Miao embroidery and other “intangible cultural heritage” inheritors through multiple channels to establish Miao traditional clothing production workshops, and introduced sewing machines, computer embroidery machines and other equipment combine traditional techniques with modern techniques, and traditional Miao embroidery is full of vitality. At present, 33 Miao traditional clothing production workshops have been established in Xinren, Honglin, Linquan and other towns. Ordered products are sold online and offline to markets inside and outside the province, becoming a cultural industry for local Miao villagers to increase their income and become rich.
According to the person in charge of the Bijie City Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, the city has now incorporated Miao embroidery and other traditional culture into extracurricular practical activities in schools in towns and villages where the Miao population is concentrated, and regularly arranges inheritors to give intensive lessons. Encourage Miao families to educate their children to love Miao culture from an early age and make Miao embroidery and batik essential skills. They also established Miao embroidery in villages where the Miao embroidery industry has developed.The embroidery intangible cultural heritage exhibition hall has an experience area and a sales area to attract tourists to participate in the experience. At the same time, online live broadcasts and other methods are used to let more young consumers know Miao embroidery, a cultural masterpiece in the mountains of Guizhou.
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