Guangxi Zhuang Brocade Wants To Declare Guinness (1)

In July 7th, the world's largest Zhuang brocade, 6.6 meters long and 3.68 meters wide, was woven in Nanning and hung high in the hall of the Guangxi Museum. It proudly accepted the admiration of the world and presented it to Shanghai World Expo during the Shanghai World Expo Guangxi week in August. Meanwhile, the world's largest Zhuang brocade has declared the world Guinness record to Guinness headquarters of Shanghai world.

How did such a huge and seamless brocade be woven? How did the Zhuang brocade technique, which was selected as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, inherit and develop?

On the 96 day, more than 100 thousand knitting is the biggest in the world. Zhuang brocade

The most powerful brocade in the world is yellow, with all kinds of patterns woven from 16 kinds of colored silk. Dance, this is because the Zhuang people regard Phoenix as auspicious divine bird. There is "ten pieces of brocade and nine pieces of Phoenix, like Phoenix coming out of the brocade". It also means Guangxi is the place of Phoenix. The Phoenix underneath has Hydrangea, representing the warm hospitality of Guangxi people; the middle of the pattern is the word "Guangxi Zhuang Jin World Expo" in Chinese, Zhuang language and English; the middle design of Zhuang brocade is a map of the world composed of pigeons, symbolizes world peace; the 12 living nations of Guangxi under the dove are surrounded by the bronze drum jubilation, representing the people of all nationalities in Guangxi to celebrate the World Expo; the bottom of the Zhuang brocade is a peaceful knot, wishing the people of the world peace and good fortune. In the top design, two lifelike multicolored Phoenix is dancing beside the emblem of World Expo, Shanghai.

This picture Zhuang brocade The rich ethnic elements embodied the distinctive national and regional cultural characteristics of Guangxi, and its weaving process is extremely complicated. More than three months ago, the reporter walked into the brocade room of Guangxi Institute of Arts and crafts, and took part in the brocade ceremony of Zhuang brocade. Before the iron guy with a length of 4.5 meters and a height of 3 meters, Tan Xiangguang, the master of Chinese brocade technology, led four skillful Weaver girls to the "idea map" hanging above the machine. In order to make the weave patterns more exquisite and vivid, they improved the weaving line and thinned it from coarse to thin. At the same time, the machine was also reformed to solve the problem that the Zhuang brocade could only weave 45 centimeters wide in the past, for this huge Guangxi. Zhuang brocade No joint and one forming provide technical support.