Folk Art
Ethnic Embroidery of Qiang – a Miracle in Chinese Folk Art (2)Qiang ethnic minority is one ancient nation in our Chinese ethnic family. For thousands of years, together with the other members of our huge folk family, the ethnic minority of Qiang have invented the Chinese nation's outstanding magnificent civilizations. From the nomadic times to the farming times, from ancient times until today, The Qiang nation has experienced innumerable glory and honor, likewise suffered from hardships and tribulations. They always keep the Chinese nation's fine calibers of hard-working, kind-hearted, simple and unadorned. In the mountains on the northwest Sichuan, amongst the canyons, they disseminate over and descended toughly from generation to generation, to retain a special, ancient folk culture gene in China. Embroidery is a kind of traditionalisti Chinese handicraft that using needles to draw respective color threads go amidst fabrics and produced drawings on it. The respective embroidery patches and embroidered effigy patterns on Qiang nation people's apparels are all belong to the conventional Qiang's ethnic folk arts and crafts, which has a long history. As to the production means, Qiang's ethnic embroidery were formulated by respective person families, also is through this method to achieve following and continuance traditionally. It is a distinguishable art invented own by Qiang nation's people, which is imbued with their wisdoms and originalities. Qiang's ethnic embroidery works full of free imaginations and followed regular norms at same time, it is a sort of art creation that featured with merits of spontaneity, amateurism and self-entertainment. In the long history of development, Qiang's ethnic embroidery formed it is distinguishable aesthetic styles, color specifications and functional forms naturally, also folk and self-embodied with national folk art rules which has aesthetic values. As to the function, Qiang's ethnic embroidery mainly employed for embellishing people's coats and skirts, shoes, head towels, belts, ribbons, bands, straps, cuffs, pants, trousers bodies, shoe-uppers, insoles, pillowcases, handkerchiefs, costume edges, sleeves and sachets, from these art patterns we may view the history line of Qiang's ethnic costume culture. As long as to do a bit statistics, we may learn that there are over 100 kinds of embroidery patterns merely in Qiang's ethnic apparels, that is in truth colorful! Containing Qiang nation people's fine aspirations for a better life, these exquisite embroidery works invented by fine proficiencies are simple, rigorous, arranged ingenuous and reasonable, likewise using moderate colors, thence to integrate the aesthetic forms and functional forms naturally: Not only for wearing beautiful, but likewise wearable, and the use lift extended consequently. As per to Qiang's ethnic embroidery, the aesthetic and practical functions of which could not be disunited sharply. The reason is referring the practical function, to increase it is wearable quality only is a necessary step; in a deeper sense, those finelooking and colorful effigy patterns on Qiang's ethnic embroidery actually congealed Qiang nation people's praying and benediction for life, which reflected their dreams of beyond reality. As the effigy patterns they selected: fishes, flowers and birds, worms, fowls and beasts, figures, fruits and melons, flowers, 'Fortunes smile upon and Favor you', Treasures Fill the Home, Hundreds of birds visit Phoenix, all these designs are unfathomed and lifelike. Although done with a great deal of geometric or other forms of transforming treatment, but are closely related to their reality all along, and the starting point of their ideas for a better life is just existed in such a reality of survival.
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