Qiang'S Cloud Shoes Display The Perfect Handcraft Art.

It is a kind of homemade cloth shoes worn by the Qiang people in the festive days. The shoes are similar to the small boats, the shoe tips are slightly warped, the soles are thicker, and the upper is embroidered with colorful moire and azalea pattern patterns. Therefore, it has the name of "cloud shoes", "flower shoes" or "Gou Jian cloth shoes", and Qiang people like to wear them on happy days.

With the dense stitches, the Qiang embroidery "Yun Yun shoes" enhances the wear-resisting properties by weaving and embroidering cotton threads on the parts of the shoes, which makes the shoes not only of practical value, but also has a high artistic appreciation value, which shows the craft skills of Qiang people's cloud shoes, and reflects the artistic characteristics of Qiang's culture as a part of Qiang's culture.

In the Qiang Folk Literature, oral literature occupies a very important part. Literary materials reflect the Qiang's historical and cultural life from side to side, and there are many and widely spread myths and legends about "Yun Yun shoes", among which the origin of "Yun Yun shoes" is vividly depicted.

Legend has it that a carp fairy living in a lake embroiders a pair of beautiful cloud shoes with a beautiful barefoot shepherd boy with the clouds in the sky and the azalea flowers on the lake.

It also embroidered "love shoes" to young people and embroidered their love on them. They also became a happy couple with a pair of children.

Up to now, there is a traditional folk custom in some parts of the Qiang Minority: as long as the boy is in love with the girl, he can not avoid wearing the "cloud and cloud shoes" embroidered by his own hands as a token of mutual affection.

The Qiang girls have to sing a series of ancient narrative songs on the day they get married.

There is a love song like this: "I heard that love elder brother wants to travel far away."

There is also a love song: "I send a pair of cloud shoes, brother wear love do not love? Shoes are sister embroidered personally, not to change money tree; I send a pair of cloud shoes, brother need not hide; if you go along the road, as long as you do not forget the sister."

These beautiful and sentimental folk songs show that the Qiang girls give away their own "cloud and cloud shoes" to their love brothers, which is regarded as a very precious gift, so as to entrust their hearts with boundless affection and affection.

On "Qiang Ge war"

The Qiang Folk Literature is a vivid commentary on its ancient history. It sets aside the mysterious cloak in the epic and reveals a true experience in Qiang's history.

In the narrative poem "Qiang Ge war", there are also descriptions of "Yun Yun shoes". Qiang people rely on a white haired white bearded old man to defeat the Gorky people with white stone. The Qiang people give Bai Shi a symbol of God in order to thank the old man and commemorate the victory of this war.

They also sampled the shape of the white clouds, and poured their rich thoughts and emotions into the interpretation of the cloud pattern, so as to make a beautiful "buckle cloud rental", that is, "cloud and cloud shoes" with cloud patterns.

Another said that the Qiang ancestors had been subjected to the oppression of the ruling class in the past and had been driven to the Minjiang River. There was no way to escape from them. There was only a rope that twisted with bamboo sticks. Many people fell into the river and killed their lives.

Therefore, the Qiang ancestors used to embroider needles to embroider a colorful cloud on their upper limbs in their misery, symbolizing the desire to step on the clouds, strike a good fortune, and fly like flies.

"Auspicious clouds"

In the title of "Xiangyun", "cloud" is a reference to natural meteorology or celestial phenomena. "Xiang" shows a subjective will, such as auspicious, auspicious, auspicious and other concepts. It is auspicious, peaceful, ideal, beautiful and even sacred. Literally, Xiangyun is not an objective portrayal of "the clouds in heaven". It contains the concept and emotional attitude of the theme to natural phenomena. It is the product of "unity of mind and matter" and the expression of the clouds in the heart.

The reason for "cloud" lies not in clouds, nor in the shape of clouds, but in the cultural concepts and aesthetic understanding of clouds or clouds.

As far as art form is concerned, moire is a traditional decorative pattern or pattern with Chinese cultural characteristics and national style.

It usually takes the scroll curve as the basic constituent element, according to a certain structure mode and combination way.

Characteristics of Qiang embroidery

The pattern of "Yun Yun shoes" is mainly red, blue and white.

These three colors are directly related to their survival and living environment: red is the symbol of the sun and fire in the eyes of the Qiang people.

Yan Qiang, the legendary ancestor of the Qiang nationality, was "emperor of fire" and "Yan Di". "Yan Emperor is the master of fire, and Jiang's surname is also later" ("Zuo Chuan AI Gong nine years").

Due to the worship of ancestors and the importance of fire in life, the custom of keeping fire continues to this day.

Red symbolizes fire and has been favored by the Qiang people in decoration.

Qiang people are good at drawing materials from nature, and blue is the symbol of the sky.

The Qiang people live in the mountains, and the purity of the blue sky and white clouds has created the broad mind of the Qiang people. The use of blue in decorations can be understood as the worship of the Qiang people to heaven and the embodiment of the simple and bold character of the Qiang people.

Qiang people are still white.

The Qiang nationality has the tradition of Bai Shi worship. Bai Shi has played a decisive role in the survival of Qiang people in the legend of Qiang people, and is a totem of Qiang people.

White is also a symbol of purity, but also the color of the clouds, and white Shi Ke fire, closely related to survival, and become the main element of the Qiang people's decorative color.

Embroidery itself is a pattern and pattern embroidered with needles, which is embroidered by various color lines on the fabric. It is a traditional art in China. Qiang embroidery has its own unique aesthetic value, aesthetic shape, decorative patterns and color codes. It contains profound historical and cultural implications of Qiang people.

As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Qiang embroidery became popular, and gradually absorbed the skills of cross stitching and developed into embroidery.

Cross stitch embroidery is good for Qiang women, and almost every Qiang woman is skilled in embroidery.

The so-called "one study cut, two study cuts, three schools embroidered embroidered cloth shoes", they were trained strictly from urine.

Embroidery has become an important criterion for measuring the intelligence and intelligence of a Qiang woman.

Especially on the eve of getting married is the climax of their embroidery.

They unite their industrious hands, intelligence, simplicity and artistic talent in this artistic world, and "cloud shoes" is a fertile land in this artistic world with unique artistic value connotation and national culture flavor.