When we travel, in addition to seeing beautiful scenery and tasting delicious food, we also pay attention to local handicrafts, such as embroidery. When we mention Chinese embroidery, we will naturally think of the four famous embroideries: Su embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, and Sichuan embroidery. The so-called embroidery, called needle embroidery in ancient times, refers to a process of using embroidery needles to guide colored threads and transporting needles on textiles according to pre-designed patterns to form patterns. When I entered the university, I studied tourism crafts design. In addition to the four famous embroideries, I liked Beijing embroidery, Lu embroidery, Hangzhou embroidery, Fujian embroidery and ethnic minorities such as Yi, Dai, Buyi, Yao, Miao, Tujia, Dong, Zhuang, etc., but I love the four famous embroideries most. The admiration for Su embroidery comes from the impression of Suzhou beauties. The 53rd chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions" also describes Huiniang, a woman from Suzhou, to write about the charm of Su embroidery art. Su embroidery focuses on changes in needle movement. The orchids embroidered are like Suzhou beauties, melodious and elegant. The looming composition fully reveals the temperament of Jiangnan women, which is pleasing to the eye, and seems to smell the fragrance of orchids in the air.

In the autumn of 1961, Chairman Mao Zedong wrote "Seven Laws: Answering Friends", in which the poem "Furong Kingdom is full of sunrise" was created by the famous Chinese landscape painting master Mr. Lu Yanshao, a 17.5×70cm traditional Chinese painting work. From then on, Furong Kingdom refers to Hunan. In fact, embroidery in Furong Kingdom is also famous. As Hunan embroidery originated from folk embroidery, it has a history of more than 2000 years. The earliest object discovered was a dragon and phoenix painting unearthed from a Chu tomb in Changsha in 1958. In 1972, another 40 pieces of embroidered clothes and a wool-embroidered brocade were unearthed from the Han Tomb in Mawangdui. Hibiscus flowers are a common work in Hunan embroidery. A variety of stitches are used during embroidery to achieve neat stitches, free and easy lines, and skillful embroidery. A good pair of hibiscus flower embroidery is not only colorful, well-layered, and strong three-dimensional, but also you can feel the enthusiasm of the beautiful hibiscus flowers.

Guangdong embroidery is a general term for embroidery centered on Chaozhou City and Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. It includes two branches: Chaozhou embroidery and Guangzhou embroidery. Guangzhou embroidery in Guangdong embroidery originated from the Li ethnic minority. In ancient times, unlike other embroideries, most of them were women, and most of them were men from Chaozhou and Guangzhou. The composition of Guangdong embroidery is complex but not messy, the patterns are neat, and the stitches are especially changeable. Among them, I still haven't understood the unique technique of Guangdong embroidery's unique skill "waterway". It is said that the unique skill "waterway" is to leave a distance of about 0.5mm between each adjacent embroidery area and between the needle starting and needle falling points to form blank lines. In this Cantonese embroidery work of kapok and bird, I can only see the "waterway" between the bird's wings and feathers. In fact, there should be "waterway" everywhere, otherwise the whole picture would not be so lifelike.

Needless to say, when you see such a cute panda, you will naturally know that this work is Sichuan embroidery. The development of Sichuan embroidery stems from the richness of Sichuan. The "Land of Abundance" has historically been a place where silk and silk are produced well. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao attacked Chengdu. In addition to plunging gold and silver treasures, they also robbed people, including Sichuan embroidery craftsmen. As a national treasure, pandas are naive and distinctive in black and white, which is a challenge for production with a single thread. However, the pandas we see are still vivid, lovely and ready to emerge. Sichuan embroidery deserves to be the first of the four famous embroideries.

Embroidery, which has a history of at least two to three thousand years in China, is one of the traditional Chinese folk handicrafts. Over the long history, skillful embroiderers have created this immortal national folk craft. Today, the craftsmanship of embroidery has been continuously improved by generations of skilled craftsmen and has become more and more colorful. It has truly realized the wonderful picture of "appearance in the mirror, shadow under the moon, shape through the curtain, and awakening from sleep". The four famous embroideries are worthy of being famous embroideries. It's really cow! If you travel to places such as Suzhou, Changsha, Guangzhou and Chengdu, don't forget to see the famous local embroidery so that you can learn while traveling and gain insight.