An Attractive Embroidery Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties

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From about the Han Dynasty,

It is said that 5000 years ago, Huang Di Fei Zu taught people to grow mulberry, raise silkworms and rewind silk.

At the time of Yu Shun, people began to embroider multicolored flowers and colors on their costumes, and to distinguish the high and low official positions with the variety and variety of patterns.

This dress system influenced China for thousands of years until the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

After thousands of years of embroidery, Chinese embroidery reached its peak in the two generation of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Folk embroidery techniques and silk materials have made amazing progress. Some of the embroidery we can see now are embroidered with twisted threads, such as trunks, rocks, and so on. Some are embroidered with untwisted silk threads, some especially fine parts such as human faces, and even by stitching with silk threads.

Gold is placed on very thin sheepskin or cotton paper and used for embroidery. Gold is twisted into gold strips and twisted with silk threads. Gold and silver wires are gold plated copper wires or silver wires.

In the dream of Red Mansions, the fine gold paste made by Qingwen Bu Qiu is a thick thread twisted by peacock tail feathers.

Ming Dynasty famous "Gu embroidery", often used to the human hair.

In embroidery, common needles include pin embroidery, needle embroidery, zipper embroidery, thread embroidery, dozen embroidery, and so on.

Among them, zipper embroidery is the oldest embroidery method. As early as the Warring States period of Western Zhou Dynasty, it was already the main acupuncture method. The most important way to express the color of the needle was embroidery. Embroidery with gold thread was also called "plate gold" or "flat gold". Embroidery is also called knot embroidery. The practice is to stitch every stitch on the cloth, because each knot should be evenly beaten, and when embroidered, it will hurt the eyes very hard, but because of the beautiful texture of embroidered patterns, it is especially popular among people.

A large number of embroidery themes in the two dynasties of Ming and Qing Dynasties are auspicious patterns with Chinese characteristics.

There are hundreds of thousands of auspicious patterns in China.

There are entrusted things, such as mandarin duck symbolizes conjugal love; pomegranate represents many sons; pine and plum represent high integrity; Peony symbolizes riches and honour; and pine crane implies longevity.

There are also homophonic themes, such as bats and "Fu" homonyms; fish express happiness; deer and "Lu", bottles and "peace"; goldfish and "Golden Jade"; lotus and "harmony" and so on.

There are several ways to unite the design, such as the word "Wan" and "Peony", which are called "rich and expensive".

In addition, different people's clothing and decoration on different occasions will also be different.

For example, in the day of birthday celebration, embroidery should be celebrated with eight immortals, longevity, pine, crane, longevity, longevity, more than 3, Fu Shan Shou Hai and so on. While wedding celebrations should be done with mandarin duck and water, lotus and lotus, and lotus (Lotus) will give birth to precious seeds and continuous patterns. Congratulations on promotion will be promoted to three degrees (halberd) by the rising of the day, and the celebration of opening up is a great achievement.

The old embroidered pieces with auspicious patterns not only bring good wishes to the ancients for the happiness of Fuki Zuki, but also a collection of valuable collections.

Putting it in a picture frame and hanging on the wall of the living room can also make the four walls brighten up and add the master's cultural taste and accomplishment.