Chapter 136 Weird Silence

The first thing Zhang Mingquan did after coming here was to find Pu Xiuxiu's embroidery products. Pu Xiuxiu's embroidery skills in recent years cannot be said to have made rapid progress, but the progress is indeed obvious to all. Moreover, she has a high understanding and usually has a more breakthrough progress after a short bottleneck period, which is not something that every Hunan embroidery person can do.

Zhang Mingquan hasn't personally used embroidery for many years, mainly because he went to the hospital ten years ago because he was in the hospital due to a stroke. Later, he has been not very stable in his hands and has not tried rehabilitation. However, compared with his past level, the gap is too big. In order to ensure the quality of the embroidery, he has not continued. Instead of wasting time on this, it is better to cultivate more good seedlings and add more fire to the future development of Hunan embroidery industry.

As a result, Pu Xiu embroidery embroidery has embroidered two embroidery pieces this time, and they are different needlework. Experts can tell at a glance that she wants to make a comparison effect.

The inventor of modern Hunan embroidery and needle-mixed needles was Li Yihui. She was from Pingjiang, Hunan. She read a small amount of poetry, calligraphy and painting when she was young, and also learned embroidery. After becoming an adult, she married a man surnamed Min in the old house of Guanshanzui, Dongxiang, Changsha. Her husband died shortly after marriage. She had no son and adopted a nephew as a son. She returned to her hometown in Pingjiang and lived in the Chaoyuan of her uncle's uncle's house.

Li Yihui's uncle Li Ciqing was a great gentry in the late Qing Dynasty. He wrote books and had many children. He could write poems, paintings, and write articles. There was a library in Chaoyuan, which contained various famous paintings, poetry and books. After Li Yihui lived here, he went to the library to read and copy paintings.

Once, she found a famous painting in the library that had faded color, which was a snow scene. As for learning, several pine trees were tall and vigorous, one person was standing on the bridge with rain, several thatched houses, with thick fences, and behind the house, she suddenly had the idea of ​​embroidering the painting, so she used paper to cover the outline of the painting and began to carefully embroider.

The painting has faded, and it is a snow scene, with the color depth and light blending, and the ancient poem says, "The rain is smoked, the village is snowy, and the mountains are easy to read, and it is difficult to draw." It is difficult to draw, let alone embroidery?

The layered coloring embroidery method that Li Yihui learned when she was a teenager was completely unable to embroider this snow scene. So after thinking hard for a long time, she finally realized the new embroidery method. She divided the silk threads and divided them to a level that could be thinner than the hair. Then she embroidered them, leaving spaces where colors needed to be exchanged, and used stitches of different colors to match different colors of silk threads, embroidered them one by one, and finally embroidered the painting completely, and it looked like another snow scene.

Li Yihui's innovative embroidery method is used in life. The opportunity is that Li Ciqing's six daughter Li Qunmu got married soon after. The Guo family is prominent and the marriage is very particular. When the bride gets married, she has to get a dowry, especially to prepare for needlework, such as purses, handkerchiefs, shoes, pillows, etc., with embroidery on it so that the bride can distribute it when she goes to the man's house. This task is handed over to Li Yihui to complete.

The chrysanthemum and golden pheasant embroidered by Pu Xiu embroidery is embroidered with elegant golden pheasants and chrysanthemums on the white ground. The shapes of flowers and birds are not heavy in color, highlighting the red feathers and head of the golden pheasant. There are obvious marks of needle mixing in needlework, which is very different from the layered colored embroidery.

If you look at the embroidery of Jili again, Zhang Mingquan will be able to understand Pu Song's regret that he will not be able to become a steel person.

She handed the conversation to Pu Song, but Zhang Mingquan blocked it back: "This time I specially set up an opportunity for communication for you young people. We who are elders will not comment, and we will also learn from your new ideas."

Shi Qing has been following Zhang Mingquan these days, and of course he also understood a core idea that he had been passing on with his apprentice. In fact, in the end, what Hunan embroidery is not compared to skills. Those can be improved and improved through long-term practice and connection. In the end, it is about understanding. If you don’t like reading, don’t study the history of the development of Hunan embroidery, and have no understanding and analysis of how much help the embroidery is invented, and do not understand what your embroidery really wants to express, then it is impossible to embroider a good embroidery.

Ji Li is such a typical failed embroidery worker.

In other words, the Hunan embroidery people finally compare their understanding of the embroidery skills of your subordinates. In the past, perhaps not every embroiderer had the opportunity to read poetry and books, but they must have observed and summarized a lot of experience from life and had their own unique observation and analysis skills, rather than simply reading the text according to the script.

After being provoked like this, Pu Xiuxiu's answer was still appropriate: "In terms of seniority, it's still my senior brother. It's not appropriate for me to comment on my senior brother's works. Please ask Teacher Pu to comment on it."

"We cannot underestimate the people's requirements and taste for aesthetics," Zhang Mingquan said meaningfully. "They may not be able to speak professional terms, but they can use the simplest preferences to judge embroidery."

It is not just the literati who are inferior to each other.

But Zhang Mingquan still looked at her with a smile.

After everyone explained it themselves, Zhang Mingquan, as the host of the entire exchange meeting, asked everyone to comment on other people's works. Only he dared to suggest this matter. If it was well said, it was called communication. If it was not well said, it was a smell of gunpowder, which was to attack each other, especially when it was not long after the Hunan Embroidery Competition was held.

During the exhibition, it is certainly impossible for all the people who come to visit to know and be familiar with Xiangxiu. However, although they are not expert, they also have the most basic aesthetic awareness. Through observation and recording, there are indeed more people who stop to watch Puxiu embroidery's embroidery.

Pu Xiuxiu thought to herself, Master, you are cheating me.

However, because many masters were present, everyone's speeches and comments were relatively restrained. Pu Xiu even skipped Ji Li's embroidery and did not express their opinions.

Before the official exhibition, Ji Li was already dissatisfied with her attitude. When she saw her obvious different treatment, she broke out on the spot: "Does Teacher Xiao Pu look down on my embroidery? Why did you skip my comments alone?"

Her intention to replica embroidery is already very obvious. This is to use works to show the history of Hunan embroidery development, and perhaps she has greater ambitions, such as promoting Hunan embroidery to the whole world, which is exactly what Pu Xiuxiu has been trying to do.

After the exhibition, all the Hunan embroidery people invited to participate in the exhibition held a small sharing session. Each Hunan embroidery person made a simple analysis and explanation of their embroidery, which can be regarded as a communication between peers.

Too much show off your skills is a rather failed embroidery piece.

So Pu Xiuxiu could only say with a tough head and said: "The shortcomings of the embroidery are quite obvious. For example, you can see that it is too urgent at a glance, so there is still a lot of room for repair."

To be honest, the truth is often harsh.

Everyone present stopped whispering in an instant and fell into a strange silence.

Note: The history of Hunan embroidery mentioned in this chapter is referenced from the Hunan People's Publishing House for "Xiang Embroidery".
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