What are the famous cultural heritages in Nantong?

Nantong is one of the key areas of intangible cultural heritage protection in Jiangsu Province. A large number of intangible cultural heritage projects, such as embroidery, tie-dyeing, blue calico, yarn-dyed homespun, mahogany carving and kite flying, are unique and far-reaching in the whole province and even the whole country. On May 26th, the intangible cultural heritage of "May Wind" entered the campus and the "Yibo Cup" Grand Prix of Jiangsu Arts and Crafts opened in nantong shipping college. The school art exhibition hall exhibited a number of representative works included in the intangible cultural heritage of the country and Jiangsu Province. Among them, traditional textile handicrafts such as silk carpet, silk reeling, tie-dyeing, embroidery, blue printed cloth, shredding and pasting are amazing.

Nantong blue calico is the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection projects announced by the state. It has a long history, rich cultural background, well-preserved technology, superb technical level and wide social influence. Nantong is famous for its hand-spun hand-woven fabrics, and the Jianghai Plain is rich in blue grass, so many farmers have "small green jars" to dye their fabrics for later use. Nantong blue cloth is famous for blue and white, and Tongzhou dimethyl is well preserved in modern times. It is famous for its exquisite patterns and rich folk culture content. Due to the continuous innovation of many artists in blue cloth, modern blue cloth is more exquisite, and the tourist handicrafts produced are ingenious in design, exquisite in production technology and exquisite in packaging, so they are welcomed by all walks of life.

Silk reeling is the most traditional special handicraft of the Chinese nation, with a history of thousands of years. Silk reeling in Nantong has a history of thousands of years, hundreds of years earlier than that in Suzhou. The classic process of reeling silk is to break the warp and weft. In essence, it is to organically fill the warp surface with various color blocks, and then connect the color blocks with several special techniques such as lifting and picking to form a perfect work. Silk reeling is a combination of silk weaving technology and skill, and is known as "the holy of weaving".

Nantong is a famous tie-dyeing town in Asia, and its rich and wonderful tie-dyeing technology is envied by the world. There are dozens of anti-staining ligation methods, including crochet ligation, hand sewing ligation, hand rubbing ligation and mechanical ligation. Dyeing methods are also very clever, including cold dyeing, hot dyeing and hanging dyeing. So the patterns on tie-dyed products are ever-changing. Especially poetic. Its colorful patterns are most suitable for women to make high-end fashion dresses, tourist handicrafts and home decoration products. There are many kinds of fuels used for tie-dyeing, among which high-grade products are not dyed with chemical dyes. It uses traditional plants and natural minerals to make fuel separately. Its dyeing is bright and environmentally friendly, and it is deeply loved by the masses. Its products are the most popular in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.

Nantong hand-woven wall-hung silk carpet is produced in Rugao, with exquisite weaving technology, exquisite patterns, rich color levels and subtle transition between colors, so the woven patterns are beautiful and full, and because their patterns often use the works of famous artists, they have high artistic value and are favored by people from all walks of life at home and abroad. Many precious works have won prizes in foreign art competitions, and some of them have been collected by international organizations and famous museums. For example, the United Nations Headquarters in new york, USA, has a collection of "Spring of Peace" silk carpets created by Shana.

Silk scissors are a specialty of Nantong, which is developed on the basis of traditional velvet stickers. During this period, silk brocade was used as raw material. According to the content of the work, we look for suitable fabrics from many different silk brocade fabrics and cut them out to make a painting. Because of its meticulous cutting and pasting, and the patterns in the silk brocade enrich the content of the work, it is as noble as embroidery. As soon as Nantong silk newspaper clipping came out, it attracted the attention of arts and crafts circles and won many awards at the national arts and crafts exhibition. Many works have been sent to international exhibitions and praised by people all over the world.