The Origin and Modern Significance of Miao Nationality Embroidery

1. Embroidery art of the Miao nationality originating from the Miao people's embroidery is one of the unique manifestations of the Miao nationality's historical culture. It is the result of the industrious wisdom of the Miao women. Legend has it that a female leader named Lan Juan had remembered the journey of trekking in order to memorize the journey of trekking. He came up with the idea of ​​using a colored line to record the yellow line through the yellow embroidered yellow line, crossing the blue line of the embroidered Yangtze River, and embroidering a symbol on the mountains and mountains. When you finally arrive at a place where you can settle, you will be fully embroidered from the collar to your trousers. From then on, the Miao girl had to wear a hand-embroidered dress for her marriage in order to remember the homeland she had left, to commemorate the heroic and intelligent predecessors, and also to inherit the beauty from her predecessors and not forgetting her ancestral homework. people.

2. The modern significance of Miao embroidery The Miao embroidery is a traditional Chinese folk culture. Due to the special geographical environment of the Miao people, it has become a place where Chinese traditional literati culture is hard to reach. The special folk culture of the Miao people has always supported this ancient The development of the nation has formed the unique folklore and personality of the Miao region.

1. Practicality The Miao embroidery art is closely related to real life. Its content is close to daily production and life. The style is simple and straightforward. Closer to life, it also preserved the features of the Miao nationality when it took place, that is, the integration of art and production activities or life scenarios during the primitive art period. In this artistic activity, material production and spiritual production are intertwined, creating products that combine both practical value and aesthetic function. This is also worth learning from our future design life. The designer's mission of being endowed with beauty. Extracting the beauty of life and integrating it closely with production, it provides people with visual enjoyment on the premise of being practical. At the same time, Miao Embroidery fully embodies the unity of communion with practicality and decoration by relying on various kinds of daily necessities, such as clothes, wallets and various Bush objects. It is a unity of physical utility and spiritual aesthetic function. This kind of aesthetic creation is a reproduction of Miao history, culture, art, and beliefs. With this rich cultural heritage as the premise and reference for design, these spiritual values ​​are preserved in the design thinking, which enables us to assign the traditional spirit to the works of modern design in the future design, so that it has rich connotations.

2. Artistic Miao embroidery is simple and elegant, sometimes even infiltrates a naive romantic feeling, the symbolic intention composition approach it pursues that transcends reality, which includes both traditional artistic style and multilateral flexible expression techniques; It is both primitive and primitive, yet modern and avant-garde, showing an intentional compositional expression and an isomorphism space that can only be seen in modern art. In terms of artistic styling, regardless of structure, no perspective, even disregarding proportions and facts; not seeking shape, not even arranging logic, relying solely on the good wishes and illusions of the Miao people, to play freely and boldly and creatively. All of them pursue the free combination of images, so that the volume of the natural objects is completely eliminated, leaving only the composition of colored lines and surfaces, which are organically stacked in space to form a unique artistic shape, and the screen presents an uninterrupted The exercise process. This strange and bold image, space, atmosphere, and scale are often surprising and extraordinary. This compositional technique itself gives a great deal of maneuvering space for artistic intuition and imagination. It is a rare reference system for modern art. The Miao people's embroidery has abstract shapes and no actual instructions, and the western “cubism” art. Visual imagining is a feature that can be called a coincidence. In the embroidered pattern of Miao embroidery, even Van Gogh and Matisse can be seen, vaguely discovering the breath of Picasso. This is precisely the uniqueness of folk art. It negates the stereotyped mechanical reproduction of reality, and pursues a unique, free and expressive personality in art, embodying human ideals and pursuits. This also coincided with the emergence of modernist ideas in the 19th century. Its simplification and abstraction beyond nature, conceptual style and symbolism are in line with the performance requirements of modern art.

3. Reference and imitation Regarding drawing and imitation of drawing materials, the Miao people's embroidery arts are widely used. From living animals and plants to non-lifeless riverbank pebbles, trotters' seals, and even trenches, they are objects of needlework in the hands of Miao people. . On the whole, the worship of animals has a strong national consciousness, depicting animal motifs in the Miao family's costumes, and especially the Dragon enjoys a lofty position in the minds of the Miao people. They have given the good wishes and aesthetics in the dragon's image. Feelings, Miaoxiu dragon in a variety of shapes, some long with many feet; some of the dragon formed by the link, body fat round, no claws, no scales, and some dragon dragon first person, but also long wings, people, Birds and dragons are mixed together. These patterns are full of distinctive modern flavor, and exaggerated and vivid shapes, in the modern decorative art is a rare valuable information, and its extensiveness is unmatched, which allows us to open ideas in the design, adjustment The idea is even more a textbook.

With reference to imitation and imitation of performance techniques, in the perennial art study, it is inevitable that there will be a fixed mindset, and Miao embroidery's artistic expression is direct and expressive, free from the constraints of the natural image, and boldly adopts the artistic treatment of distortion and exaggeration in the modeling. For the aesthetic needs of the Miao women, the wings of the butterfly were mounted on the body of the bird. Fish scales also appeared on the tiger's body. The animal's eyes can grow on the back. They can create bird-shaped flowers and can also create flower-like patterns. bird. Create a variety of artistic images that seem unreasonable and in line with their original thinking. While marveling at its performance techniques, we will overthrow the previous understanding of the heart's imagery and liberate it from one-sided or even rigid thinking, but it is not entirely chaotic and disorderly. It is an ideological one. Orderly and purposeful liberation, and reproduce this bold imaginary figure in the creation of art and use it for our own purposes.

Studying the Miao embroidery art is a process of absorbing and digesting it and refining it. In the initial contact with the Miao embroidery art, it is a long process to thoroughly analyze and thoroughly study it. However, this is not our ultimate goal. What we need It is to create again and create works of art that have a traditional Miao culture and meet our current job requirements. We can only seriously and not perfunctory, in-depth and not superficially study and learn the art of Miao embroidery, in order to turn this part of the service for modern art into a fresh blood and inject it into the creation of modern art.