On April 17, at the annual design week in Milan, the world’s fashion capital Above, the 3,000-year-old textile “living fossil” Li brocade from Hainan Island once again stunned the world’s fashion stage.
In a few days, the event will be held on April 27 The 2023 (third) Hainan Splendid World Culture Week will kick off in Haikou. The ancient Li Brocade has become a beautiful cultural business card of Hainan. It is reported that during the cultural week, a unique and charming Splendid cultural feast will be created through the opening ceremony of the intangible cultural heritage Splendid Fashion Show, thematic forums, and the intangible cultural heritage traditional weaving, embroidery, printing and dyeing technology project boutique exhibition.
A magnificent poem in the history of textiles
With a long history of three thousand years, Hainan Li brocade is known as the “living fossil” of China’s textile industry. A magnificent poem in the history of textiles. In 2009, the traditional spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills of the Li people were listed among the first batch of “Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in Urgent Need of Protection” by UNESCO. As a precious world cultural heritage, Li brocade has become a world-renowned excellent Hainan specialty and an important symbol of Li culture.
Because the Li people do not have their own written characters, the Li brocade patterns are in various dialects In a sense, Li brocade has become a unique history book that condenses the history and culture of the Li people. Li brocade spinning, dyeing, weaving and rusting techniques that have existed for three thousand years are also the embodiment of the value of science and technology, covering history, technology, art, folklore, geography, climate, anthropology, ethnology, folklore, culture and many other comprehensive aspects. information.
People see in Li brocade that Li women use exaggerated and deformed Abstract art with geometric patterns and rich imagination has created human-shaped patterns, natural patterns, animal patterns, plant patterns, production and life patterns, text patterns, etc. Among them, the dragon quilt is the brocade arts and crafts with the highest cultural taste and artistic value among Li brocades. It is one of the treasures paid tribute to the imperial court in the past dynasties and is favored and sought after by collectors at home and abroad.
Fashion items that frequently “break the circle”
“Li brocade has unique and exquisite craftsmanship, simple and elegant style, and rich cultural connotation. It is the current textile One of the most difficult works of art with the highest cultural taste among handicrafts.” Tim Curtis, representative of the Living Heritage Division of UNESCO Headquarters, once praised it. In 2019, the traditional spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills of the Li people entered the UNESCO headquarters, becoming the first intangible cultural heritage item in China and the second in the world to be exhibited at the UNESCO headquarters, allowing more people to see the fashionable beauty of ancient Li brocade , hundreds of domestic and foreign media rushed to report on it.
In order to create a world-famous cultural exchange display with international influence The platform is a window for Hainan Limiao Splendid Culture and Chinese Splendid Culture to go global. In November 2020, under the guidance of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports and the Haikou Municipal People’s Government jointly hosted the 2020 The 2019 (first) Hainan Splendid World Culture Week will present Hainan’s splendid Li brocade culture to the world through rich art performances and regional exhibitions.
The second Hainan Splendid World Culture Week to be held in 2022, the opening ceremony was held at Dianyun Cave, an internet celebrity in Haikou Held outside the library, the “World of Clothes and Quilts” fashion show showcased the nation’s brocade fashion boutiques. At the same time, the 2022 first intangible cultural heritage traditional weaving, embroidery, printing and dyeing skills exhibition was held at the Haikou Convention and Exhibition Factory, which brought together the nation’s brocade boutiques and received high praise. .
In order to make the ancient Li brocade more suitable for today’s life, in recent years Many professional companies and inheritors on the island have transformed Li brocade into fashionable, trendy and youthful products, and launched a number of beautiful and practical Li brocade handbags, coin purses, bookmarks, table flags, improved Li brocade clothing, etc. , these Li brocade cultural and creative products have become Hainan souvenirs with unique cultural characteristics.
“We will build the Li Jin cultural and creative brand by holding cultural weeks and other theme activities and design competitions, support Li Jin product development, production process innovation and packaging design, and support applications by enterprises, inheritors and designers. The innovative design patent of Li brocade pattern leads to an industrial road of harmonious development of tradition and fashion. “The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Tourism and Culture said.
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