Shu embroidery

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Shu embroidery

Applicant: Yuzhong District, Chongqing

Project No.: 320

Project No.: Ⅶ - 21

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Chongqing

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Yuzhong District, Chongqing

Protection unit: Yuzhong District Cultural Center, Chongqing

Introduction to Shu embroidery:

Applicant: Yuzhong District, Chongqing

Shu embroidery is one of the four famous embroidery in China. It has been handed down in Bashu area for thousands of years. Chongqing, with Yuzhong District as the center, is one of the main areas where Shu embroidery spreads.

Compared with Sichuan embroidery, Su embroidery, Yue embroidery and Xiang embroidery in Western Sichuan, Chongqing Shu embroidery highlights the distinctive local characteristics and cultural connotation of Chongqing, presenting an artistic style of bold exaggeration, rich imagination, humor and close to life. It takes traditional flowers, animals, costumes, facial makeup, landscape, urban architecture, ladies, modern portraits and so on as its creative themes, and its content is extremely rich. Its main embroidery methods are single-sided embroidery, double-sided embroidery and heterochromatic embroidery. The basic techniques include spreading needle, straight needle, oblique needle, piercing needle, ginseng needle, loose needle, three row needle, floating needle, covering needle, embossing, upper flying color, lower flying color, etc. the whole needling system is complete and tight, with the characteristics of dense but not coning, sparse but not bottoming, bright and even, short needle fine and dense, solid inside and loose outside, and relaxation Point.

In recent years, with the development of social economy, people's aesthetic demand for clothing and house decoration continues to grow. In order to adapt to the new situation, the descendants of Shu embroidery continue to create new embroidery stitches, and strive to promote a large number of innovative Shu embroidery works to the domestic and foreign markets. After a long period of development, Shu embroidery is becoming more and more mature, and has its own system and orderly inheritance.

Due to the nature of handcraft, every work of Shu embroidery has to consume a lot of time and energy of craftsmen in its creation. The input-output ratio is low. Coupled with the limitation of family workshop style inheritance means, Shu embroidery is faced with problems such as lack of successors and lost skills. It is in danger and in urgent need of protection.