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Hair embroidery, also known as ink embroidery, originated in the popular period of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. Folk believers cut off their hair and embroidered it on silk or silk into Tathagata or Guanyin Bodhisattva. Burn incense and worship to show piety. Replacing silk thread with human hair is the wisdom and creation of working women in China. Because hair embroidery does not fade and deform, it has extremely high technical requirements and is rarely circulated. The Oriental Statue embroidered in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Maitreya Buddha embroidered by Han Ximeng in the Ming Dynasty were collected as treasures in the London Museum in England and Zhengcang Hospital in Japan respectively. The only hair embroidery in Shanghai Museum, The Picture of Stopping the Piano and Waiting for the Moon, was also embroidered by Han Ximeng. By the Qing Dynasty, hair embroidery was on the verge of extinction. On the basis of inheriting the traditional craft, the embroidery artists in Dongtai Arts and Crafts Factory used the methods of rolling, winding, stitching, sleeving and virtual reality, adopted a variety of human hair, such as yellow, gray, ochre and white, and used dark and light hair as the "color line", and combined painting and embroidery to create colored embroidery with "color in ink and ink in color". Embroidered works of Lu Xun, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Flowers in Flowers, Animals, Pavilions and Mountains and Waters were exhibited for the first time at the Guangzhou Expo, and merchants rushed to watch them and became art treasures. In 1981, Dongtai Hair Embroidery won the Excellent Works Award in the National Handicraft Tourist Souvenir Appraisal, and in 1983, it was awarded the Excellent Quality Certificate by the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. In 1985, Tiangong brand hair embroidery was rated as a quality product in Jiangsu Province. In 1986, the hair embroidery Hanshan Temple was exhibited in Japan. Because there are four hairs embedded in the inscription in the picture, the poem of a night-mooring near maple bridge is engraved on it. Japanese audiences were deeply interested in the 28 Chinese characters carved on four hairs, and lined up to watch them under the microscope in turn. The protection scope of Dongtai hair embroidery geographical indication products is the administrative area under the jurisdiction of Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province. Dongtai hair embroidery is a geographical indication protection product. Dongtai Hair Embroidery is a certification trademark of geographical indications.
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