During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, many children wore colorful and elaborate dragon hats in Qingyang farmhouses in Gansu Province. Large, round eyes, high beard, and mighty fangs......The image of the dragon in the legend is vivid, and children wearing dragon hats are running in the courtyards and paths of the countryside, bright and joyful.
Screenshot of Gansu Satellite TV**.
Walking into the workshop of Liu Lanfang, the provincial inheritor of Qingyang sachet embroidery, the embroidery girls are drawing, cutting, embroidering, loading spices, and stitching. The sales experience area outside the workshop was crowded with people who came to buy, try on and photograph.
Photo by Liu Lanfang.
Just like the dragon hat of this year's Spring Festival, Qingyang sachet is an indispensable item in the festivals and important ceremonies of the local people, and on its body, it carries a long-standing memory of folk culture.
Xi Shigang, chairman of the Qingyang Civic Literary and Artistic Association, introduced that the Qingyang sachet is based on silk colored cloth, silver needle and silk thread as the pen, and between the flying needles, fish, insects, birds and beasts, zodiac, sachet ornaments and other beautiful objects are about to come out......This is Qingyang sachet, a cultural business card with a long history.
Qingyang sachet embroidery stitching. Photo by Chen Fei.
According to historical records, in Qingyang, Qi Bo often wore medicine bags containing herbs to prevent and ward off plague, and thus became popular in the local area and gradually became a custom. As a result, scented herbs are called "vanilla", and scented pouches are called "sachets".
In 2001, cultural relics workers found a well-preserved Jin Dynasty sachet in the body of the Shuangta Temple in Huachi County, Qingyang City. The sachet is made of tawny brocade embroidered throughout in an oval shape, with an agate gemstone chain and a traditional seam around it, and a freehand phoenix claw pattern at the bottom. The main body is a begonia flower, embroidered with colored silk threads. The shape of flowers and leaves is distinct from color to form, rich in changes, although the age is old, it is still gorgeous as new, nearly a thousand years ago, so it is called "Chitose sachet".
Qingyang Chitose sachet. Photo by Zhang Keyi.
Through layers of heavy cultural accumulation, Qingyang sachets have been inherited to this day, still retaining the cultural form of ancient times, simple and clumsy, primitive and fresh, it is a cultural treasure that has grown up in the thousand-year-old inheritance.
In order to pass on the precious cultural heritage of sachets, Qingyang City promotes the development of the sachet industry with festivals. Since 2002, Qingyang City has held 18 consecutive sachet folk culture festivals.
The sachet on display at the 18th Qingyang Sachet Folk Culture Festival. Visual China.
Nowadays, Qingyang sachet is not only a unique and charming work of art, but also a commodity with considerable economic benefits. Among the skillful hands of local women, the small sachet has become a major brand in the development of Qingyang's cultural tourism industry.
Driven by many inheritors of Qingyang sachet embroidery, the majority of housewives have opened up a new life in sachet embroidery.
The inheritor of Qingyang's intangible cultural heritage is making sachets. Photo by Wang Haohui.
In recent years, Qingyang City has combined the inheritance of "intangible cultural heritage" with the cultural industry, and cultivated outstanding "intangible cultural heritage" inheritors into leaders in rural revitalization. Through a series of policy support, the city's 8 counties (districts) of the sachet companies will focus on the production of rural areas, by the company to provide styles, order quantity, etc., to explore the "professional team design, art masters to drive production, thousands of households to participate in production, leading enterprises to organize marketing" of the development of the folk culture industry new way, the formation of "base + company", "company + farmers", "art masters to drive farmers", "group exhibition" and other industrial business models, the ancient sachet culture to achieve creative transformation, innovative development.
Science and technology ** reporter Jie Manbin correspondent Sun Yuzhen.