The 77-year-old grandfather has a stunt that no one has passed on. Now he is trying to pass on his skills. What is his stunt?

"Emerald bead quilt, rotten JiGuangXi. Wearing beautiful clothes is beautiful, but it is not surprising. " —— Qu Yuan

Han embroidery has a history of 2300 years. It began in Han Dynasty, flourished in Tang Dynasty and flourished in Qing Dynasty. Its long history can be traced back to the Warring States period. At that time, silk weaving in Chu was quite developed.

In Qu Yuan's "The Songs of Chu Evocation", there are poems describing the luxurious silk fabrics in Chu Palace. The Chu people sewed Han embroidery on clothes and purses, which is a memorial to their old friends and a daily necessities within reach. Until now, Han embroidery has evolved into an intangible heritage.

Han embroidery is not only the craft of Lao Zhang Man Song Xian, but also his "second life". It is quite romantic to do Han embroidery in his heart, which comes from life and is endowed with life by needle and thread. But this is also a very difficult thing, because he has to take a pension of 3000 yuan every month to subsidize the apprentice's money.

When I first met Han embroidery, it was love at first sight.

A large number of silk embroidery unearthed from Chu tomb is the earliest existing embroidery object in the world today, and it can be called the originator of embroidery. A magnificent robe opened the wonders of Han embroidery, but embroidered all the years and mysteries of life into this amazing robe, which became our inner shock and sentiment.

According to historical records, the land of ancient Chu, because of its special geographical environment, provided cultural soil for the spread and development of Han embroidery. The combination of Han embroidery and North embroidery takes its own advantages. Thousands of years have passed, and the needle and thread in my hand has never stopped. How many beautiful and quiet times, accompanied by small embroidery needles, are the daily practice of craftsmen.

Old man Zhang, who is over 70 years old, is the inheritor of ancient handicraft Han embroidery and the only provincial intangible cultural heritage of Han embroidery in Hubei Province. In junior high school, Zhang experienced the feeling of love at first sight, which is different from love at first sight, because the other party is Han embroidery.

I first met Hanxiu when Zhang was in junior high school, because he lived near the gate of Hanxiu Embroidery Factory and passed through here after school. Every time he passes by, he will stop to admire the Han embroidery works displayed in the window. Later, he chose to study in a normal school and took part in a job of teaching in a primary school. He doesn't think these jobs are suitable for him.

196 1 year, Zhang quit his job and became an apprentice in an embroidery factory. At that time, the embroidery factory was also called embroidery production cooperative. Compared with other people, he has a high degree of education, and the unit leaders like him very much, so he arranged for him to learn embroidery design, which also started Zhang's 58-year insistence on Han embroidery.

On the first day of work, the master painted the embroidered robe on the embroidered satin and started directly without making a draft, which surprised Zhang and was deeply moved. After studying with Li Shifu for half a year, he was selected by a craftsman of a Han Opera Troupe in Shashi, who mainly made costumes, props and dances. Through others, he asked Zhang if he was willing to learn from him. From then on, he studied Chinese embroidery design in factories and Li Shifu during the day, and studied the production of Chinese embroidery props in the troupe at night.

Han embroidery rival artists also have artistic requirements, and they need to have certain artistic skills if they want to learn Han embroidery. When he was in primary school, Zhang's hand was injured by a bomb. In order to exercise his fingers, he found some needlework at home and occasionally painted some small things he liked, which became the backbone of art in the school. Zeng studied under the folk painter Ma. In junior high school, the wall charts in biology class were basically pictures.

Always insist, just for inheritance.

After decades of persistence, Han embroidery is more of a responsibility for 77-year-old Zhang. He can't let this craft be lost, and he can't bear to see it dim and forgotten. In Zhang's view, the connection between people and things is endless.

Now Zhang has devoted all his energy to the creation of Han embroidery. Songtao Villa is only a few tens of meters away from Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, but it occupies his life and work all day. He has been working hard on these two points in recent years and making contributions to Han embroidery. As the only inheritor of Han embroidery in Jingsha, it is Zhang's greatest concern to cultivate successors and find a way out for Han embroidery.

Therefore, he will take out 3,000 yuan from his 4,000 yuan pension every month for the inheritance of Han embroidery. However, Han embroidery is slow after all, and contemporary young people are too impetuous. Moreover, they can't support themselves by Han embroidery at all. So in the end, only one person took the initiative to study Chinese embroidery full-time. This situation can't help but blurt out the word sad.

Cultivating heirs but losing the market is the biggest problem faced by Han embroidery. Han embroidery is a folk art, with a strong national color, which is not closely related to the current fast food culture.

Han embroidery combines the four techniques of embroidery, so some people think that Han embroidery is a kind of nothingness. What's more, it is neither fish nor fowl, which has created a gap with the exchange of other embroidery cultures.

The life of Han embroidery is romantic and eventful. In that war-torn era, the Japanese burned the embroidered street and the artists were displaced. During the Cultural Revolution, artists reluctantly burned all their embroidery and styles, and Han embroidery was almost out of date. "Embroidered ping across the thin shadow curtain, tears flow first." All kinds of unfortunate experiences have not erased its light, but it still exists and surprises the world.

Those rich colors hide the understanding of beauty. Han embroidery can have a variety of carriers. It can be birds and animals, full of colors, or a bowl of light tea, which is simple and elegant, and the unknown scenery is compiled in a familiar way. This may be the "secret" of Han embroidery.

In the eyes of many people, Han embroidery is an unreachable thing. In fact, there is nothing else in Han embroidery, but the word "full, flat and vulgar". Beauty is not self-beauty, but is brought out by people. Only with people's favor and persistence can the beauty of Han embroidery continue to shine in the new era.

On April 29th, 2065438+0/KLOC-0, Wuchang District Government established the Han embroidery base in Tanhualin and set up the trilogy of Han embroidery development. Today, with the efforts of Zhang and other Han embroidery masters, the pulse of Han embroidery is closely linked with the times again, and Han embroidery is reborn and the phoenix is nirvana.

It is no longer an elegant object in the museum, but the beauty that you can stop rubbing. Han embroidery inherits the tradition, brings forth the new, boldly improves, transforms the traditional skills into modern fashion, becomes the source of inspiration for design in other fields, and embroiders new brilliance between flying thread and needle.

Craftsmen have no pity or narcissism, and continue to write beauty with embroidery needles in their hands. Let us once again glimpse the story behind the colorful stitches of Han embroidery. I hope people will be more patient and tolerant of Han embroidery or traditional culture like Han embroidery. I also hope that in the near future, there will be more "Zhang" who loves Han embroidery as much as he loves his own life.