Country Show: Liu Xianglan, The National Representative Inheritor Of The Traditional Textile, Dyeing, Weaving And Embroidery Skills Of The Li Nationality

The waist loom is wrapped around the waist, the foot tip supports the foot stick at the other end, the legs are straight, the right hand holds the brocade wooden knife, and the weft thread is tightened between pulling... Under the operation of Liu Xianglan, the national representative inheritor of the traditional textile, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills of the Li nationality, the simple silk thread weaves colorful colors, and the tourists around are amazed.

Liu Xianglan demonstrated Li brocade weaving skills at the "Village Show" of ethnic fashion in Wuzhishan City. Photographed by Yuan Rui, reporter of Xinhua News Agency

In Wuzhishan City, Hainan Province, the catwalk is integrated into the green water and green mountains. Since the middle of September, 10 national fashion "village show" series cultural activities performed by villagers have been carried out in Tongshi Town Island Park. At the activity site, villagers of all towns and villages dressed in exquisite ethnic costumes walked on the stage; The inheritor showed the traditional weaving and embroidery skills of Li and Miao costumes on site. While appreciating the feast of ethnic costumes, the audience can immerse themselves in the rich ethnic culture.

"The clothes we displayed on the stage were all made by ourselves!" said Wang Meihua, a member of the delegation from Maoyang Town, Wuzhishan City

The villagers interacted with the audience at the national fashion "village show" activity. Photographed by Fan Yuqing, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency

Li brocade is a traditional skill that has been passed down for thousands of years. It has been handed down from generation to generation. Through spinning, weaving, dyeing, embroidering and other textile techniques, Li brocade weaves and embroideries with solid texture, beautiful patterns and beautiful colors.

Li brocade was once a daily life skill of Li women compatriots. With the continuous advancement of the machine industry, fewer and fewer people are learning the skills of Lijin. In 2009, the "traditional textile, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills of the Li nationality" was included in the "List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Urgent Need of Protection" by UNESCO, which aroused great concern around the world.

The Li brocade skills training class attended by Wang Meihua is a project of Wuzhishan City to protect and inherit Li brocade skills. Wang Yuzhao, deputy director of Wuzhishan Cultural Center, said that the cultural center has invited inheritors of Li brocade skills to carry out Li brocade skills training in villages and towns for a long time, which not only meets the needs of the masses to learn Li brocade skills, but also enhances the awareness of the masses to protect intangible cultural heritage, and reserves talent resources for the development of Li brocade skills.

The scene of the "village show" of ethnic fashion in Wuzhishan City, Hainan Province. Photographed by Pu Xiaoxu, reporter of Xinhua News Agency

On the stage of "Village Show", some villagers put on the national fashion with modern design elements. The collision between nationality and fashion, tradition and modernity makes the national costumes with profound historical deposits glow with new vitality and vitality.

"In the future, we will copyright and digitize the design of Lijin, and encourage folk craftsmen to combine Lijin with international elements, so that our national costumes can go global," said Zhu Hongling, secretary of the Wuzhishan Municipal Party Committee in Hainan Province.

(Source: Xinhuanet)