Folk Art Animals

The embroidery is a traditional Chinese folk industrial arts styles, is an integral part of popular culture in China. Qiang folk embroidery art is the image carrier of Qiang nation's culture, there is a direct and aesthetic symbolic performance of customs and lifestyle of the minority nation with a long history.

Qiang folk embroidery popular transmitted from generation to generation through traditional folk style, rich exotic moods and sophisticated art that combines the convenience and beauty in one, is one of the favorite items people used to decorate and embellish life.

When creating the new China, the Qiang people's folk art developed further, become more attractive and dazzling. In July 1959, embroidered belt created by Mrs. Wang Yuhua named "Happiness of the ocean" of Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province has been sent to Chengdu to attend the State Industrial Art Exhibition and won first prize.

Containing simple and rich ancient rustic flavors and superb artistry in 1978 Qiang folk costumes won lot of national academic reputations at home and abroad. At the end of the year, Japan National Museum of Ethnology bought clothes Qiang folk nation for the collection.

In 1980, the carpets produced by factories in Aba county were exported to the United States, Canada, India, Nepal, the Philippines and other countries, and Qiang folk art has won the National People's reputation and wide praise.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, embroidery has become very popular in the region of Qiang minority. embroidery Qiang nation on 16 different embroidery stitches, there are pick embroidery, embroidery Nahua, flower embroidery, embroidery, crochet chain, emboss finish embroidery, embroidery, jacquard, embroidery applied, embroidery and crochet hand embroidery mainly.

Among them embroidery selection technique is the most preferred practices used by Qiang nation women. Pick Embroidery images from the reality of life in nature, like flowers, birds, fish, animals, etc., which are familiar in everyday people. These natural beings full of rich organic spirits, through skillful embroidery pick processing, have been created in various patterns and color images, they mostly symbolizes people blessings of auspicious fortunes, fine aspirations for bright future as "bouquets of flowers and piles of Brocades", "Harmony in the water and" Fish "Phoenix Flight of the peony.

embroidery pick also called "cross embroidery", is a sort of embroidery technique in strict conformity with the flexibility of the fabric and longitude lines, through a set of tight embroidery stitches and make cross patterns in equidistance and the same length, which embroider on a variety of models of visual forms, which have regular, symmetrical, distinctive features. With this method, the images of all natural beings are formed Cross-angles to the right and cross the lines straight, and formed unique styles of geometric deformation, it is fantasy and interesting.

Qiang minority nation's women mostly using their son in cotton embroidery work, sometimes silk color son applied too, the colors are mainly black and white in vivid contrast. Colors in the image of embroidery are often lively and varied to create clear, simple and generous visual effects ..