Intangible Cultural Heritage of Xuan Paper Embroidery

For more than 1000 years, hand embroidery in China has always been based on cloth and silk, and it has never changed. Because many kinds of embroidery techniques originated from various places and depended on Suzhou embroidery techniques, the "homogenization" of techniques is serious, and many kinds of embroidery have lost their own characteristics. Xuan paper embroidery takes the essence of Chinese excellent culture as the creative theme, endows Xuan paper embroidery works with the soul of thought, humanistic spirit and craft language, and shows the artistic charm of Xuan paper embroidery, thus infecting a person who appreciates Xuan paper embroidery and enjoying art and beauty.

Xuan paper embroidery has passed the second batch of intangible cultural heritage declaration in Jiangxi, and is actively applying for the national and provincial intangible cultural heritage list. Paper embroidery is a family's handicraft skill, and it is "handed down from children to women." Gu Jia discovered from the memorial tablets of the Ming Dynasty that "paper embroidery" was born in the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, with a history of more than 700 years. It was founded by Gu Wenhua, the second ancestor of Gu Xiaozhi, Gu Zhuang, Dainan Town, xinghua city, Jiangsu Province, and his wife Yin. It is a handicraft skill of Gu Jiazhi family. Later, due to historical changes and population migration, the technology of "paper embroidery" spread to Gaoyou and Xie Jia, but it was lost due to the war. After the founding of New China, Gu Ende, the eighth generation descendant of "Paper Embroidery", moved to Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, brought "Paper Embroidery" to Nanchang, and taught the skills of "Paper Embroidery" to Gu Yuchun, the ninth generation descendant of his son, to make it develop and grow. Gu Yuchun, the ninth generation inheritor of paper embroidery, is the only inheritor. Gu Yuchun lived up to his family's expectations, devoted himself to the study of ancestral crafts, tried and innovated repeatedly, got rid of all kinds of disadvantages of "paper embroidery", created a seamless stitch method with ink painting as the form of expression, and broke the shackles of long-term imprisonment of the family, going to society and serving the society, becoming exquisite home decorations, cultural gifts, arts and crafts and collectibles with great commodity value.

According to "Gu's Genealogy" recorded in Changlongjintang, Tongzhi Duhu, "Gu, the ancestor, moved from Wuxian to Xinghua at the end of the Song Dynasty, which was very prosperous. Xuan paper embroidery is an original embroidery of China, which is different from the "Four Famous Embroideries" and other embroideries and has its own uniqueness. With the future development of rice paper embroidery, its unique cultural characteristics and brand-new technology, it will attract great attention at least in the same industry in the future. And some people will conduct a series of academic research on its historical origin, material changes, embroidery technology, Jiangxi embroidery classification, cultural phenomena and so on.