To Explain The Manchu Folk Embroidery Culture By Writing With A Needle

Manchu Folk Embroidery In this sense, embroidery is a "painting" art. Among them, the Manchu's pillow top embroidery is the most brilliant: it has a large number of products, many kinds of products, many embroidery works and many generations handed down.

Shamanism is a primitive religion which believes that all things are spiritual, and then produces natural worship, totem worship and ancestor worship. The Manchu history of China believed in Shamanism, which produced rich and varied Shaman culture. Pillow top embroidery is one of the best among them.

In China, the history of pillows is far away. From the physical evidence left, China's pillows include porcelain pillows, Tao Zhen, wooden pillows, bamboo pillows, stone pillows, and cloth pillows.

In the north, because of the cold weather, they use cloth pillows and pillow under the head when they sleep. Pillows can protect the shoulders and protect the cold. The Manchu and their ancestors in the white hills and black waters also used this cloth pillow as black or blue after heading for farming and settlement.

The Manchu cloth pillow is made of cloth and is a rectangular hexahedron, so it is called a square pillow. However, there are many differences in the length, width and height of the square pillow. There are single side pillows, double side pillows, flat pillows, ear pillows, empty pillows, pairs of pillows and so on. The pillow should be stuffed with plant stuffing, and the pillow will be warm and soft. These fillers are the leaves, flowers or fruits of wild plants, which are economical, affordable and medicated. Such as buckwheat husk, iron leaf, grass, chrysanthemum, and so on.

In order to decorate this cloth pillow, we need to embroider it in two blocks. This is the colorful pillow top embroidery.

The embroidery of pillow top was originally originated from the influence of Han culture. However, because Manchu's marriage custom is unique, Manchu's pillows top embroidery is various, embroidered beautifully and rich in content, compared with the similar embroidery of the Central Plains Han nationality. The category of yarn, embroidered, embroidered and embroidered is even more exclusive.

In those days, girls from Manchu families had to embroider from primary schools and embroidered dowry in person, including embroidered shoes, flower clothes, mantle axes, and embroidered pillows. Embroidery with pillows was the most important. Neighbors and sisters often work together to embroider, learn from each other, and often humming folk songs and small notes while wrapping them. Green hemp What is hidden inside? Green flute, white flute, green flute, and green floral needles.

Before marriage, girls should embroider dozens of pairs, dozens of pairs or even hundreds of pairs of pillows. They should be shed on the big tarpaulin, called "pillow curtain", and the upper end will be worn on wooden poles. Two people carry them along with other dowry, from the mother's home to the husband's family, and drum music should be done, and around the village for a week, called "dowry dowry" to attract people to watch along the street, the colorful pillow top embroidery is the most attractive.

The dowry was sent to the men's houses one by one, especially the pillow curtain, hanging in the most conspicuous place. On the day of the day, "the red men and the green girls salty to admire, not to exaggerate embroidery, that is, to live high".

After the wedding, on the top of the Kang, the neat lattice is red and green, with four pillows on both sides stacked up, and the top of the pillow is outward. Between sister-in-law and sister-in-law, between the sister-in-law and the sister-in-law, the embroidery skills should be exchanged on each other. The remaining pillows are embroidered and preserved for the rest of their lives, showing their important role in a woman's life.

Because of the unique marriage custom of Manchu, the art of pillow top embroidery was created. Its themes include: landscape, flowers and birds, grass insects, animals, characters, characters and so on: its forms include Satin Embroidery, cloth embroidery, yarn, yarn weaving, cutting embroidery. Cross stitch Embroidered, embroidered, and so on: its needles include flat needles, inverted needles, long needles, and locks.

Some of these pillows embroidered works are the totem worship or Shaman sacrificial scenes advocated by Shamanism, with strong Shaman culture.

From Manchu myth and legend, we can see that Manchu takes magpie as totem, so in the eight scenes of old Shenyang, there is a scene of "palace crows", that is, to scatter food on the west side of Shengjing palace to feed the crows.

At the same time, a tin bucket was placed on the rod of the shaman sacrificial offering. "When the meat is sacrificed, there must be a crow to peck and eat it." (Liu Bian Ji Lue)

Because of the profound influence of the Manchu Shamanism, the Raven totem, it is reflected in folk art products. This "crow" pillow embroidered with exquisite skills. Embroidery skills This theme is reflected.