Suzhou Held "Splendid Neighborhood" Sino Thai Handicraft Exchange Forum.

The second Saturday of June is China's "Cultural Heritage Day", this year's cultural heritage day.

Endows it with special significance.

In Suzhou, Jiangsu, the theme of the "cultural exchange day" forum is "closely related to the theme of" cultural heritage integration into modern life ". In the traditional process," silk "is taken as the breakthrough point, and a dialogue is held on the topics of traditional craft research, inheritance and innovation.

New uses for excavating intangible heritage

As the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award for the National Cocoon and silk industry, Qian Xiaoping, the representative of the national intangible heritage of song brocade and the founder of Suzhou Silk Museum, introduced the protection, inheritance and contemporary development of brocade weaving techniques.

She said that the art of song brocade has extensive historical value, scientific value and application value.

Song Jin should innovate on the basis of inheritance, and work hard to expand the new uses of song brocade.

Song brocade is not only used for mounting calligraphy and painting, gift boxes and cultural works of art, but also for modern clothing, especially for women.

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And so on.

Today, we are in the best historical period for the protection of ancient silk culture, the excavation, inheritance and innovation of intangible cultural heritage.

Nowadays, the culture of non heritage is losing and traditional culture is gradually fading away. We should focus on excavating and inheriting the lost and representative artifacts of song brocade and song brocade skills.

Nanjing's Brocade flower weaving handicraft, the representative of the national heritage, Kim Wen, in his speech, described the traditional technology facing the future -- how to combine the innovation of Yun brocade with the times.

He said: "when we talk about carrying forward traditions, the first task is to pass the good skills intact.

To inherit and carry forward the brocade technology, we must be rooted in our traditional culture, and close to life and innovate on this basis.

Our task is to make it more and more rooted in the public rather than into the museum.

Only when young people like it, can cloud brocade be truly inherited.

In the view of Jin Wen, the current lack of cloud brocade is mainly the mechanism and platform for opening the market.

How to make up for this short board, Jin Wen believes that we need to work hard in the design of the brocade, while introducing the Western expression of visual arts, we can also absorb fashion elements.

In addition, we need to constantly update the types of products, market oriented technological gifts, meet the needs of ordinary consumers, and stress the strength of brands.

Innovation takes account of tradition and fashion.

Tess is famous for its handmade weaving, superior quality, soft texture and bright colors. It is the most famous and valuable commodity in Thailand.

At the exchange forum, the famous Tess expert, the instructor of the Queen's Craft Training Center, and the Thai silk designer, Xi Ti guai, introduced the protection and inheritance of Thailand silk handicraft, the development of Thailand Royal silk handicraft and the modernization of Tess.

"Over the years, through the joint efforts of the government, the royal family and the people, Thailand has constructed a three-dimensional pattern of heritage preservation and inheritance.

For example, the support fund and the Queens handicraft training centre have been set up to help poor farmers increase their income by learning to make traditional handicrafts, and to revive traditional handicrafts.

Nowadays many Thai people like to wear Tess dress, and more than 20 traditional handicrafts have been effectively protected and inherited.

In the past few years, Tess has made some innovations in color and pattern design. The traditional red color is the base color. Now there are four or five kinds of color schemes. The patterns are combined with traditional elements and popular elements in the city. Through the "Tess fashion show" project and Tess design competition, the traditional handicraft is continuously injected with new vitality.

In the operation of the brand, Jim Thompson's practice is worth learning. He pays attention to the content core of the design, pays attention to innovation, follows the trend, pays attention to elegance and refinement, and also uses silk in home decoration, wallpaper and other fields.

Jim Thompson, the chief executive of Thailand's high-end brand, said: "as a luxury brand in the royal family, Jim Thompson has a smaller market in the local market. When facing the export market, we should design and develop new products according to the likes of Europeans and Americans.

In order to make innovations in technology and design, we also set up our own university design center, integrating the avant-garde trend of college students into the traditional Thailand silk culture, colliding new products, and making more people realize the natural pollution-free dyed Tess.

Make it a leading luxury brand in Southeast Asia.

Strengthening cooperation and mutual benefit

"Falling in love with silk makes you fall in love with quality life."

A keynote speaker from Thailand said.

He said that the variety of silk in Suzhou was varied and the culture was extensive and profound. Suzhou embroidery, Song Jin, silk, Wu Luo and Zhang Satin were all the intangible cultural heritage of the Suzhou and Chinese people.

Parana, Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of Thailand in Shanghai, said that through the exhibition of silk Suzhou 2016, she had seen the advanced Chinese silk craft.

Thailand has carried out various cooperation with China, hoping that both sides can win win benefit and jointly strengthen cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, attach importance to and strive to protect, revive and inherit the Chinese heritage.

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Xu Yi, expert committee member of the National Committee on the protection of intangible cultural heritage, believes that handicrafts have the elegance and simplicity that can not be replaced by machine production. We hope that through the efforts of all walks of life, more and more people will fall in love with handicrafts and promote the great development and prosperity of Chinese handicrafts in the new era.

Suzhou silk is gradually embarking on an international road. It has been valued and passed down. It has discovered and carried forward the manual spirit of Suzhou silk, promoted traditional crafts into modern life, and made modern design go into traditional crafts.

Learning skills need not only integrate theory, art and technology, but also study and accumulate in order to produce results.

But there are too few people to really concentrate on skills.

Inheriting this skill is hard and tiring, and it is hard to see economic benefits in the short term, so most people are unwilling to do this. Lack of funds has been troubling the inheritance of song brocade weaving skills.

Qian Xiaoping said.

It is understood that the government has led the protection of intangible heritage for 15 years.

Approved by the State Council, the four batch of 1372 national intangible heritage projects were approved. 11042 provincial non heritage projects were approved by the provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), and four national, provincial, municipal and county levels have been formed.

Correspondingly, the Ministry of Culture named the four batch of 1986 representative successors of national intangible heritage projects, and 12294 provinces (districts and municipalities) approved the promulgation of 12294 provincial project representative successors.

A total of 38 projects have been selected in the relevant list of UNESCO. Among them, 30 are the "representative works of human intangible cultural heritage", 7 are "the list of intangible cultural heritage urgently needed", and 1 are the "best practices list".

Ma Shengde, inspector of the Department of intangible cultural heritage of the Ministry of culture, said, according to the "China Intangible Cultural Heritage Heritage training and training program", in 2016 ~2020, selected and commissioned a number of universities and enterprises and related units in the whole country to organize the national intangible heritage heritage projects nationwide to participate in research, training and training. The number of participants will reach 100 thousand people, and the first batch has identified 57 colleges and universities.