Folk Handicrafts--Baby Shoes (BY-B13)

[2008-12-23 17:16:04]

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Name:  Baby shoes

Type: Cloth Handicraft

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Qianyang county, the hometown of the Apollo, is also the birthplace of Zhou and Qin culture and the important posthouse of the ancient Silk Road.Qianyang,located at the mid-stream Wei river, one of the reaches of yellow River, is known as "rural folk art”. Qianyang county is denominated by Shaanxi cultural department as "Shaanxi folk art embroidery town” and "Chinese folk art embroidery township” by PRG ministry of culture.

Qianyang with simple folk, rich culture and it brings up generations of folk artists.

Cloth, paper cutting, embroidery, knitting, and other arts and crafts County, known as the "mother art" of the cloth goods, with its distinctive local characteristics and a straightforward sense of north country life is deeply favoured by people.

Qianyang clothing keeps the national essence of the King Yan period and Zhou and Qin period. With a deep mean and a simple and brief putline, a exaggerate modelling and a vigorous and firm style, Qianyang clothing is passed down by generations and forever famous. 

"when a design has a meaning, and it must be lucky”. Many folk clothing adopt symbolic designs, such as flowers, birds, plants and so on to express a good hope of expecting good luck and avoid evil spirits.

The elderly's articles are usually the images like'' Fu(happiness), "Lu(wealth)''and "Shou(longevity)''. They show hope that the elderly can been health and longevity. While the kid's aricles are usually images of tiger and the "five poisonous insects and animals” (scorpion,snake,centipede, gecko and toad) to against evil and help kids live as srong as tigers.

The newly married couple's articles mainly involve images "Two mandarin ducks were tumbling merrily in the water'', "locus and kids''(locus has the same sound with Lian),which means hoping the couple can have several kids, "carps swimming througn the locus for fun” (symblizing the harmony of marriage) to hope a happy family, more childern and more blessing. Unmarried girls send her lover pouches with medicine and handkerchiefs with dancing butterflies or twin lotus flowers on one stalk (symbol of a loyal couple) to show girls' secrets for her love.. Cloth art adopts a lot arts of embroiderying, adhibiting, putting together and tying up. As the influnce of Yangshao and Long mount's culture, it keeps a lot the trace of original totems and the admiring for giving birth.

Its most segnificant characteristic is symbolism and metaphor. The works involve many art words and phrases tallied with thoughts persuing good luck and wealth. The works have a strong sense of vitality and it is a exotic flower of  Loess Plateau  in western China.

 
Source: ecvv.com
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