When The Silk Thread Is Cut Off, The Old Embroidery Man Is Facing "Lock Embroidery".

"Guangdong embroidery" has flourishing and is now almost lost. Shunde's aunt was heartache.

One stitch is shuttling on the pattern painted by white cloth.

Yesterday, the reporter came to Zeng aunt's home in Lecong, Shunde. He saw that he was sitting in an old, wooden simple machine. He was skilled in needling a embroidery called "green grass, proud snow and red plum".

A girl can be a joke without embroidery.

Born in 1965, when she was 8 years old, she began to learn the skills of "Guangdong embroidery" for her elders.

"When I was young, the village was mainly farming, and life was very difficult.

Later, when there were some textile factories in the village, women and children at home were looking for embroidery as a sideline, making money for living expenses.

Zeng said that embroidered clothes or table towels were all abroad.

In front of the quiet country house, under the big trees, there will always be rows of girls embroidering before the wooden machines, occasionally telling jokes to break the stillness of embroidery.

"This has become a unique scenic spot in our village."

"If any girl can't embroider, it must be an idiot," she said.

This will make people laugh. "

So every time she came back from school, she ran to her neighbor's house to learn embroidery with the girl.

Six months later, aunt Zeng can independently embroider some simple patterns, such as grass, branches, leaves, mountains and stones, and so on.

Zeng said that when she first started studying embroidery, she would not be used to embroidery life for a while.

"Because, when embroidery, there must be Nai Xin, but also meditation, needle stab, sometimes stabbed for a long time, posture can not be changed, waist and backache."

With the changes of the times and the economic benefits of manual embroidery, the traditional "Guangdong embroidery" technology has been gradually forgotten since 1980.

"After 1984, no one went to embroidery."

She said that since then, she has only taken the remaining lines more than 20 years ago in her spare time to help people who come to ask for embroidery to "embroider".

Last year, Zeng Yi promised a childhood friend who had settled in Singapore and sent her a embroidery of "green grass, proud snow and red plum".

Last year, he also embroidered a large character of "Great Exhibition and grand plan" to Hongkong friends.

Zeng said, "Guangdong embroidery" has not been available in the market.

"I was deeply grieved to see her embroidery slowly coming out of people's sight.

Now no young people are willing to learn. Embroidery really has no successor. "

"Last year, I decided to donate two of my collection of" Guangdong embroidery "works to the city museum as a time to commemorate the once prosperous Shunde embroidery time.

Zeng aunt told reporters with great sadness.

It is understood that two pieces of "Guangdong embroidery" donated by Zeng Yi to the Municipal Museum are embroidered pieces of Red Satin Embroidered Flowers and stripes embroidered on a summer vacation at the age of 10, and embroidered pieces of white silk "flowers and riches" embroidered in the 80s of last century.

Because the embroidery thread has ceased production, Zeng said that she would face the possibility of "lock embroidery" after running out of her remaining few lines.

"The remaining lines should still be able to stab 20 out of them, and they will not be embroidered if they want to be embroidered later."

Shunde was once a prosperous place for Guangdong embroidery.

According to the chronicles of Shunde County, the folk embroidery techniques in Guangzhou and its ancient territories, such as the South China Sea, Panyu and Shunde, are collectively referred to as "Guangdong embroidery".

Shunde embroidery is one of the most brilliant branches. The number of employees in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China reached more than 3000, accounting for more than 70% of the total number of employees, mainly in Beijiao, Lin tou, Guang Kau, Xian Yong, three Chau, Sha Kau, Lecong, Lao Cun, Chencun and Xincun, and the products were exported to Spain, Philippines, Britain, France, the United States, Germany and other countries.