Chinese traditional arts and crafts: four major embroideries:
Embroidery is a decorative fabric that uses needles and threads to pierce certain patterns and color patterns on embroidery materials. In the Ming Dynasty, the embroidery product "Gu Embroidery" of the Gu Ming family in Shanghai was particularly famous. Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Guangdong embroidery and Sichuan embroidery are known as the four famous embroideries in my country.
In art, it has formed a local style with beautiful patterns, harmonious colors, bright lines, lively stitching and fine embroidery work, and is known as the "Pearl of the Orient". What best embodies the artistic characteristics of Suzhou embroidery is "double-sided embroidery", which allows people to watch it from both sides. The double-sided embroidery "Cat" is a representative of modern Su embroidery works.
Hunan embroidery--Changsha, Hunan:
It is characterized by rich layers of coloring and painting-like embroidery. Hunan embroidery uses lions and tigers as its representative works, and there is a saying of "Su Mao and Hunan Tiger".
Guangdong embroidery - Guangdong region:
It is famous for its full layout, luxuriant patterns, lively scenes, bright colors, strong contrast, and emphasis on gorgeous effects. Another unique phenomenon of Austrian embroidery is that most of the embroidery workers are men. Cantonese embroidery often uses gold thread as the outline of embroidery patterns. Gold and silver thread cushion embroidery is one of the distinctive types of Cantonese embroidery. His representative works include "A Hundred Birds Paying Attention to the Phoenix", which is lifelike and full of vitality.
Shu Embroidery--Chengdu, Sichuan:
The embroidery techniques are very unique, with at least 100 kinds of exquisite stitch embroidery techniques. Representative works include the hanging screen "Pictures of Musical Daughters from the Shu Palace", the two-sided "Fish among Water Plants" and "Panda" with different colors on both sides, and the "Hibiscus Carp" displayed in the Sichuan Hall of the Great Hall of the People.