Posted on February 7, 2010.
Ethnic embroidery of Qiang ae" a Miracle in Chinese Folk Art (3)
Qiang the ethnic folk art is rooted the history to old China and the folk culture, applied with the sons of colored silk and the sons of color of cotton, the peuplades of the nation of Qiang created various models of embroideries and the pictures as the flowers and the fruit, the poultries and the beasts, the pines, the bamboo, the plums, the chrysanthemums, a flower mass, And the Fish and so on. In these simple artistic forms, rich connotations are contained and out are posted.
The women in the nation of Qiang are all voucher to the embroidery work, that is one of essential competences that the women of nation of experienced Qiang, and the this is also a principal rule to measure if a girl of nation of Qiang is more intelligent, more skillful and more diligent or not. The women in Qiang often are taught by their elderships to practice competence of embroidery scarcely when they always are a granddaughter. When they are in their 6 or of 7 years, the will of mother began teaching his girl to learn embroidery competence, so when the girl grew in his marriage age, she became of ordinary a master of consummate embroidery, and when a man in to go nation of Qiang to sue for a woman, the basic condition is the girl must having seized the Of embroidery well, if the girl is not With the embroidery work, the man would not like it. Consequently, no woman in the nation of Qiang could not do the work of embroidery.
The women in the nation of Qiang ordinarily according to the intention person to choose the model of picture of embroidery, for example, the models of picture of "Fu", "Read", "Shou" especially is conceived and so on for the elderly persons, and by the presents to wish the good health and the good longevity of the elderly persons; For the children, the pictures to against the devilish spirits Especially would be chosen, and thus to bless the healthy growth of children, and the flower models would be choose also To Imply good healths of the children and the favorable growth.
The girl embellished of ordinary one of the cigarettes keep for his lover, there are two conceptions of model are the most familiar, the one is "The games of duck of Mandarin Chinese with Water", the other is "Them flying Stuffed the wing to fly of the winter to jump". The two the two models of embroidery are imply to like itself forever and the stay together forever, and that supposedly is "loves are contained in the sachet".
To used a part of culture of ethnic Qiang, the embroidery of ethnic Qiang carrying the love of the people of the nation of Qiang to the nature, their languishes for a better life, that all are posted on their embellished clothing, show their rich regional culture and their folk customs on one hand of blow of eye. It can be said that the folk embroidery of Qiang and the art paper cut are visual carriers of culture of ethnic Qiang, they are direct expressions and symbolic aesthetic of these customs of the groups and the ethnic very old life methods.
Nation of Qiang "the shoes of Yunyun" is the more of characteristic embellished shoes, that are done with fabric and in a boat form, with student a little the orteils of shoe and the thicker soles, jumbles embellished pictures on the superior shoe, the it are durable and mettables, is an embroidery of lyric one by typical.
Not only with the spirit call, but the so true spirit practices, this type of form of art froze people of nation of Qiang the simple desires of blessing of a favorable future and a better life, and its culture characters spread themselves that foresees that. This character is not only belongs to the nation of Qiang, but belongs also to all
