Miao Embroidery -- The Treasure Of Chinese Arts And Crafts

Art is a treasure of Chinese arts and crafts developed on the basis of traditional Miao embroidery.

Miao embroidery is the embroidery and painting of the Miao people to everything in the world and to their natural ecological life, and is a natural craft art passed through the mother's daughter.

It fully demonstrates the cultural connotation of Miao people advocating nature, pursuing "spirituality", and embracing ancestors and heroes.

For thousands of years, the Miao people have been migrating, living and breeding in the mountains and mountains. They have been exposed to nature for years. Miao embroidery women have unique national savvy, keen observation and exquisite feelings for the natural world.

Their embroidery expresses their dependence on nature, their love and advocation.

It reflects the mental journey of the Miao people's friendly and equal treatment of the natural world.

The essence of the Miao people's ancestors' advocating witchcraft culture and the witchcraft culture's "spirit of all things" is fully reflected in Miao embroidery. They hope to get good and blessed spirituality, and avoid the evil and evil spirit, becoming the ideological theme of Miao embroidery.

Respect for ancestors and heroes is the traditional virtue of the Miao people.

Totem, symbol associated with ancestors, and heroic characters in Miao people's legend are often embroidered in Miao embroidery.

It shows that the Hmong people want to connect with their ancestors and heroes, and get spiritual prayer from their ancestors and heroes.

Miao embroidery has a specific cultural function for the Miao people:

Miao embroidery is an external symbol for the Miao people to identify and distinguish ethnic groups. The Miao nationality has hundreds of ethnic groups (branches), the same ethnic group, and their embroidery.

This is the same as decorating, which plays an important role in enhancing the cohesion of the ethnic group, making marriage choices convenient and maintaining survival and reproduction.

Miao embroidery costs a lot of time, energy and effort.

The costumes are to show their beauty and diligence during the festival, get the attention and chase of the young people, and express their love.

It can be seen that beauty shows the cultural function of Miao embroidery.

Miao embroidery also embroidered ghosts and gods by embroidering special patterns, pleasing ancestors, and blessed by sensing spirits and ancestors' spirituality.

For the Miao people without words, Miao embroidery records their history with their specific decorative symbols, conveying the information of their ancestors, expressing and inheriting their culture.

The pattern decoration of Miao embroidery has a specific symbol and directivity.

The butterfly in the Miao embroidery is the ancestor of the Miao nationality, represented by "mother butterfly". It is the symbol of women and the eternal life of the Hmong life, generation from generation to generation and life.

Miao embroidery is considered a "soul carrier" by the Miao ancestors.

It is the messenger of the "life circle" of the descendants and the "Underworld" who lives in the dead ancestors.

All forms of dragon are the unified direction of different ghosts and gods.

Fish are symbols of survival, reproduction and prosperity.

Horny animals are symbols of extraordinary strength and divinity.

Plants also have "spirituality" and are interlinked with animals (human beings) and ghosts (Dragons). They are the ultimate display of the spirit and spirit of the Miao people's ancestors, and all symbolic meanings are harmonious expressions of nature, man, ghosts and gods, so as to achieve the eternal theme of the Miao people's survival and reproduction.

Miao embroidery's artistic features:

Miao embroidery has a special cultural connotation, making Miao embroidery and the four embroidery styles represented by Han embroidery art forms have obvious differences.

Symbolic expression is the expression form of Miao embroidery art.

The specific image and symbol decoration in Miao embroidery often represent a story, a history, a kind of desire and a trace of feelings. Therefore, Miao embroidery is a form of "meaning".

Miao embroidery has the artistic soul and spiritual core of "spiritual change".

Witch culture "all things have spirit" and "spiritual interchanges" extend the imagination of the emergence of the people, support their illusion and expand their exaggeration. The Miao people seem to be born with the spirituality and savvy of artistic creation.

Miao embroidery has an artistic style of exaggeration and individuality.

The nature of its "spiritual change" makes Miao embroidery women often use the special emotions and special creative logic to make patterns, combinations and collocations in the pcendental creative artistic conception of borrowing things with heart and borrowing objects in ideographic way.

The pattern of Miao embroidery does not imitate, nor does it look at reality and perspective.

Gorgeous colors and strong segmentation and contrast of colors are another feature of Miao embroidery art.

Miao embroidery's bold colors, exaggerated collocation and ultra conventional color combinations make Miao embroidery show a new sense of color and rhyme.

Miao embroidery has thirty kinds of rich and strange needles and techniques. Miao Miao's creation seems to have magical powers. Weird needles and techniques make the Miao embroidery's texture distinct.

It highlights the exaggeration and mystery of Miao embroidery and makes the design more personal and vivid.

Miao embroidery art has long been in the folds of the mountains, so few people know and appreciate its charm and value.

However, the art of truth is bound to conquer time and space.

Miao embroidery, a "meaningful form" full of "emotional imagery", will also bloom in the near future with the splendour of Su, Xiang, Yue and Shu embroidery.