Jingxiu

Beijing embroidery, also known as palace embroidery, is the floorboard of Beijing-centered embroidery products. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it began to flourish greatly, and was mostly used for palace decoration and clothing, with exquisite materials, exquisite technology and elegant style. Most of the high-grade palace embroidery among the people were inextricably linked with the palace. Beijing embroidery belongs to hand embroidery, so when machine embroidery is developed today, it is also called "hand embroidery" to distinguish it from machine embroidery. After liberation, Beijing embroidery gradually formed its own distinctive artistic features and styles, with fine materials, clever and decent needlework, gorgeous and luxurious colors and elegant style. Among them, it is best to embroider "Ping Jin Seeding" in needlework. This kind of embroidery is very delicate and luxurious, which is made of real gold twisted thread and coiled into a pattern or seeded on it. As one of the "Eight Exquisites of Yanjing", Beijing Embroidery was once called "Four Great Embroideries" together with "Su, Xiang and Gu" among the "Four Great Embroideries", which shows its brilliance at that time. Now people only know "Jiangsu, Guangdong, Hunan and Gu" and don't know there is "Beijing". Guyizhou, which was founded in the 16th year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (AD 596), has a history of more than 1,400 years. The territory is full of beautiful mountains and rivers, outstanding people, dotted with the ruins of Yanxiadu, Huang Jintai, the Great Wall of Zijingguan, and the royal cemetery of Qing Dynasty has a "Jing embroidery" specially favored by the royal families in previous dynasties, which is a bright pearl of Yizhou. The Jing embroidery is purely hand-embroidered and has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. This series "combines the aura of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and the moon. On the basis of the original manual production, the technology is more exquisite, the process is more complicated, and the history and modernity are integrated, which has high appreciation and collection value. The most striking feature of Beijing embroidery is its bright color matching, which is similar to pastel and enamel in porcelain. Beijing embroidery is characterized by elegance, delicacy, beautiful patterns, flexible stitches, exquisite embroidery and vivid images. The materials used in Beijing embroidery are very exquisite, and its materials are refined and precious, luxurious and rich, at the expense of work. Beijing embroidery is unique in weaving embroidery on silk. In the representative Beijing embroidery works, every stitch and every thread permeates the power of the emperor to cherish the sky.
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