Modern Folk Art

Paper-cutting and embroidery are both folk industrial art forms of China, both are inseparable elements of Chinese popular culture. Like a miracle marvelous art of Qiang nation's culture, Qiang embroidery, in terms of design, color, shape, or point styles are all imbued with rich deposits of the ancient culture of the ancient nation and Qiang Qiang people's ideas for life.

The author believes that the merits and meaning to dig embroidery popular Qiang nation and paper cutting art are not only exists in art scope, for us it is not certainly valuable and meaningful to learn more about the history of this nation and be aware of the relationship between popular art Qiang and other nations.

Qiang nation, also called "costs the nation in the clouds, especially live together in Mao County, Aba Prefecture, County and Wenchuan County, Li County and Beichuan Qiang Autonomous nation in the city of Mianyang in Sichuan province in China. "Qiang Embroidery" is a cultural heritage remaining Qiang nation become more intense so far the closest and Qiang nation people's lives, he is the best bridge the art of communication in real world form, color matching and stitching styles are described with significant ethnic characteristics.

Qiang Costume National People are beautiful and simple, and whether men or women in Qiang nation are all prefer to wear the veil, they usually wear long dresses of linen woven by themselves, wear dresses long cloth coats, sheepskin vests too, and "shoes Yunyun" (a kind of embroidered cloth shoes Qiang nation) on the feet. A variety of geometric patterns of embroidery are familiar Qiang on women's clothing and they usually wear silver jewelry such as earrings silver plates, and so on, and wear embroidered shoes with toes angle bracket. Men in Qiang nation generally tie hanging knives and wallets at the waist, they wear cloth shoes or straw sandals, and packing the wool leggings, as with seat belts fastened on. Today, in areas near towns and villages of the Han people, affected by the Han people's clothes, they wore primarily clothes Qiang Han Qiang and did costumes on vacation.

With the evolution of history and turns of time with the development of Chinese cities, the modern preferred to go after the changes and curious adventures, lifestyles and changing aesthetic concepts, embroidery traditional folk appeared in the cities of the country gradually, not only the feelings and aspirations of citizen members were infiltrated with embroidery, but also thousands of families effected by and began practicing the art of embroidery together.

Qiang folk art might voltage response at the time, so naturally find a new life. In particular, as the new millennium prosperous greet people the opportunity and are eager to be rich, the art of embroidery is to catch the popular fancy and concentrate on displaying connotations of hope people who pray for the rich, profits, good luck and safety. So, has served as national product, Qiang embroidery could be lowered and developed simultaneously. To this end, we can conclude that there is a significant market potential for improving national and folk art development.