In what year was Zhuang Brocade included in the intangible heritage?

Zhuang Brocade was listed as an intangible heritage in 2006, and it is also known as the four famous brocade in China along with Yunjin, Shujin and Songjin. It originated in the Song Dynasty and is a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation. Zhuangjin Wen Zhuang is called mbawlaizfax, which means a page of paradise pattern. This exquisite handicraft made of cotton thread or silk thread has vivid patterns, rigorous structure, bright colors, loving and cheerful national style, which reflects the Zhuang people's worship of heaven and earth and their pursuit and yearning for a better life.

What are the main features of Zhuang brocade?

Zhuang Brocade is one of the most representative national handicrafts in Guangxi Zhuang area, and it is also one of the four famous brocades in China. Location: Jingxi, Xincheng and Binyang counties in Guangxi. Traditional Zhuang brocade takes cotton and linen thread as the ground warp and plain weave as the ground weft, which is generally used to make quilt covers, bedspreads, suspenders and backpacks. Its common patterns are big and small characters, as well as more complicated double phoenix Chaoyang, phoenix peony and lion bowling. In addition, Zhuang brocade has its own three pattern systems, one is a continuous pattern with geometric decorative patterns, the other is a composite pattern with flowers as the theme, and the third is a pattern with auspicious animals as the theme.

What is the inheritance significance of Zhuang brocade?

Zhuang brocade has produced rich and wonderful patterns in the long-term labor practice of people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi, which strongly reflects their love and reverence for life, nature and national culture, permeates the optimistic spirit of national culture, condenses people's beautiful yearning and expresses sincere feelings. While meeting the basic needs of life, it closely combines the practical function of material with spiritual needs, and becomes a "living fossil" bearing the memory of national culture, which plays a positive role in inheriting and carrying forward national culture and enhancing national self-esteem.