Chinese style clothing making skills (Zhenxing Xiang Chinese style clothing making skills)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Chinese fashion making skills (Zhenxing Xiang Chinese fashion making skills)

Applicant: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Project No.: 1173

Project No.: VIII - 193

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Hangzhou Limin Chinese Style Clothing Co., Ltd

Brief introduction of Chinese fashion making skills (Zhenxing Xiang Chinese fashion making skills)

Applicant: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Zhenxing Xiang Chinese style garment making technology is a unique technology of handmade traditional Chinese style garment. Zhenxing Xiangzhong style clothing production technology was inherited in 1897, and was founded in jindefu clothing shop of Hangzhou Hushu Baoqing bridge new wharf. Wengtai school, the inheritor, studied from Jin Defu. After he finished his study, he opened Zhenxing Xiang clothing shop at 27 Wushan road in Hangzhou. Its superb production technology has its own system, which has been passed on for several generations. After the public-private joint venture in 1956, it was renamed "Limin Chinese style clothing supply and Marketing Co-operative". Zhenxing Xiang has been used as the trademark of the enterprise till now. Over the past hundred years, Zhenxing Xiang has absorbed and inherited the essence of the Chinese nation's clothing culture for thousands of years, and formed unique techniques with distinctive Chinese clothing style, such as "big skirt, standing collar (also known as" Chinese collar "), button, inlay, inlay, roll, Dang, plate, nail, hook and embroidery". The main technological process includes: design idea, measurement, selection of fabrics, cutting, sewing, nailing, ironing, etc. with high-grade brocade and silk as fabrics, the series of products such as cheongsam, long gown, Chinese jacket, Chinese suit for men and women are cut and sewn by hand.

At present, Zhenxing Xiang designs and produces Chinese style clothing for various occasions for celebrities, overseas Chinese, Chinese Americans and Taiwan compatriots at home and abroad, reflecting the recognition of Chinese clothing culture by Chinese at home and abroad. In 2008, we completed the production of two series of "blue and white porcelain" and "pink" for the award dress of Beijing Olympic Games, which fully demonstrated the magic charm of Zhenxing Xiang Chinese style clothing production technology.