The Living Fossil Of Chinese Textile History -- Hainan Brocade Brocade Embroidery Technique

"Where do you come from China?" in 2012, Lishui, World Expo, China, the exhibition hall of the intangible cultural heritage of the hall of love at the China Pavilion in World Expo, Korea, two women wore different scarves in different dialect areas of the Li nationality.

Sitting on the ground, the Li Jin brocade technique is on the scene, attracting many Korean visitors to stop and ask.

The two aunts are Liu Xianglan and Rong Ya Mei, who are from Hainan Island Five Fingers Group and Ledong Li Autonomous County.

China Pavilion Hainan event week is gorgeous, and they also show their skills in Li brocade.

Li brocade textile technology is the ancient dyeing and weaving technology of Li women in Hainan Island. It is known as "the living fossil of Chinese textile history". In 2009, it was included in the list of the first batch of intangible cultural heritage urgently needed by the United Nations Educational, scientific and cultural organization. Liu Xiang LAN and Rong Ya Mei were recognized as the only two national textile brocade artists in Hainan.

Liu Xianglan, who has more than forty this year, answers with a smile when he asks questions.

She told reporters that she came from Hainan Five Fingers Group Li Minority dialect area, at the age of 13 began to learn brocade technology with her mother.

"The year before last, World Expo, Shanghai, we also received attention from all walks of life when we were performing at the scene."

She said she not only mastered the brocade, but also brought fifty or sixty students to teach them.

Skill.

On the other side, Rong Yami constantly immersed himself in "flying flowers" while speaking Mandarin with a strong Hainan accent.

This year, at the age of 57, she went out of the country for the first time to perform her unique skills. "We belong to the Kazakhstan dialect, and the brocade tools are different from Qi dialect. They need 31 long bamboo sticks."

At the age of 8, she began to talk with reporters. He skillfully waved "Dazhu knives, bamboo knives," and "yellow and purple" lines of different colors.

Pu Minzhi, a Korean citizen of Lishui, saw the live tapestry demonstration constantly praised. "When we traveled to Beijing, we saw Li brocade on TV. It is a very beautiful art."

She kept asking questions to the next interpreter and pressed the camera in her hand.

Standing aside, Li Xizhen picked up a Li Jin cell phone bag on the side and looked at it. He took out 20 thousand won and bought it happily, and turned away happily.

Officials from the Hainan provincial sports and recreation hall said that more than 9000 Li women learned to Handcraft brocade skills in Hainan, and 13 of them were identified as the traditional brocade and embroidery people at the provincial level.