Manchu embroidery (Changbai Mountain Manchu pillow top embroidery)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Manchu embroidery (Changbai Mountain Manchu pillow top embroidery)

Applicant: Tonghua City, Jilin Province

Project No.: 856

Project No.: Ⅶ - 80

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Jilin Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Tonghua City, Jilin Province

Protection unit: Tonghua Normal University

Introduction to Manchu embroidery (Changbai Mountain Manchu pillow top embroidery)

Applicant: Tonghua City, Jilin Province

Embroidery is the most distinctive traditional art of Manchu, which has been popular among Manchu people since ancient times. Manchu embroidery is very practical and can be seen everywhere in daily necessities and clothing, among which the pillow top embroidery is the most exquisite. Manchu embroidery absorbs the advantages of Suzhou embroidery, Shu embroidery, Guang embroidery and other famous Han Embroidery, and skillfully integrates them with the aesthetic concepts and living customs of the nation, forming its own character and charm, which shows the ancient and simple folk customs of the Manchu ancestors and the skillful hand spirit of the Eight Banners women. Manchu embroidery materials are mainly yarn or satin fabrics, supplemented by self-woven fabrics and blue and white fabrics. In the layout of the works, the left and right sides should be symmetrical, or they should echo each other equally, or they should be left Green Dragon and right white tiger, or they should be cut and embroidered to make the left and right sides completely consistent. There are many kinds of Manchu embroidery, including birds and animals, flowers, fish and insects, characters and stories, which express the meaning of praying for good luck. The composition of embroidery continues the traditional technical rules of our country, peeling layer by layer, alternating density, achieving "sparse can run horse, dense can't breathe", showing a very high artistic level.

Changbai Mountain Manchu pillow top embroidery is an important part of Manchu folk embroidery art, popular in Changbai Mountain area where Manchu people live in Tonghua, Jilin Province. It originated in the Nuerhachi era of the Qing Dynasty, when the Manchu began farming and settled down, and initially mastered the skills of cotton planting and weaving. Changbai Mountain cold weather, people used to pillow cloth pillow to sleep. There is a unique marriage custom among the local Manchu people. Before marriage, the girl must embroider dozens or even hundreds of pairs of pillows on her own, and put them in the bridal chamber for display. Because of this, the pillow top embroidery is highly valued in Changbai Mountain area. The local Manchu women embroider Naduo on both ends of the pillow, which has been popular for a long time, forming a unique pillow top embroidery technique. This kind of Manchu unique embroidery art is rich, exquisite and of high artistic value, which is of great help to understand, understand and study the Manchu culture and social life in Changbai Mountain.

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