2 Million Chinese Save "Cheongsam"

Recently, the Xuhui District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Office received a call to declare "cheongsam" for intangible cultural heritage.

The total number of 155 items was 2418, and the experts were shocked.

"I don't have any buttons on the market."

Salina, a German born in Shanghai, said proudly.

At its own expense of more than 200 million yuan and 11 years, she has passed down the traditional craftsmanship that has been on the verge of extinction.

She is now the world's largest maker of buttons.

Purple sand pot type, Shikumen type, plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum type, literati official female style...

If not seen with one's own eyes, it is hard to believe that these works are actually "buttons on clothes".

There are 155 cheongsam buttons designed by she and her younger brother in the design of Shan Na residence.

According to Shan Li Na, once, she sought to find a kind of button like pattern on her cheongsam, and ran away everywhere.

After a great deal of data collection and research, she found that all kinds of traditional cheongsam, the buttons on the skirts often play the role of finishing fine.

Before that, the ancient costumes were fasten by belts, and the buttons were the fashionable buttons that first replaced the tapes.

Since then, Salina has been puzzled by the link.

For hundreds of years, a lot of folk wisdom has been hidden in the skills of rolling up. However, with the change of times, many old tailors have died one after another, and handicraft is also on the verge of being lost.

So she sprouted the idea of learning and inheriting herself.

Spend 2 million on stunts

(source: Evening News)

With her husband's support, she will spend 2 million yuan on his business as a start-up fund. He specially invited a more than 80 year old banyan master to serve as an artist in Changzhou.

In addition to self-study, Salina employed 8 young apprentice stunts.

The master of RM was born in a tailor's family, and he had a sample of his inherited buttons.

After mastering the traditional patterns, Salina wanted to create new buttons on this basis.

She looked for and collected a lot of new patterns, and integrated into the tradition of the times.

Such as "birds to Phoenix", "Longfeng Cheng Xiang", "Shou Zi button", "butterfly button" and so on.

It takes 4 days to make a pair of buckle, and the design conception can not be calculated.

Salina and his younger brother, Song Tao, have now cooperated with 155 of the world's most exclusive series of buttons, which once received the praise and praise of the famous painter Chen Yifei.

As the world's largest maker of buttons, the world Guinness record is being applied.

She is a "European daughter-in-law", so she has long wanted to go out with her own collection. This year, her wish will be fulfilled.

"Some organizations have invited me to do exhibitions after hearing the news.

The plan is to be exhibited in Europe this year.

Maybe I'll go to Japan and other places later. "

"Don't belittle this button," said Shan Li, emotionally. "The hook is exquisite and exquisite, and the design is unique. Every button has a moving story.

The unique skills of the Chinese nation are worthy of inheritance and development, and deserve to be shown to the world.

Preparations for the exhibition are under way.

Reporters learned from Xuhui District's cultural department that Salina's "manual workshop" had been unable to pay wages for several consecutive months because of the lack of input in research.

However, she never gave up, and planned to display it at home and abroad in the form of family Expo. All these buttons were donated to the collection of National Museum, so that more people could learn about it.

At present, with the support of the office of the protection of intangible cultural heritage of Shanghai and Xuhui District, Salina is declaring the technology of non-stop cultural heritage protection.