Splendid China: Embroidery Public Education Exhibition.

As an excellent traditional handicraft of the Chinese nation, embroidery unfolds a magnificent and colorful scroll of time and space for contemporary people. In the course of historical development, embroidery has been widely used in social life, carrying the beauty of order and folk life. Appreciating paintings and daily necessities constitutes the cultural function of the beauty of Chinese embroidery, forming a colorful and diverse style of embroidery represented by Su embroidery, Shu embroidery, Xiang embroidery, and Yue embroidery. Chinese embroidery has gained diverse and diversified demands in social life: beauty, uniqueness, fashion, auspiciousness, etc., reflecting people's understanding and pursuit of a better lifestyle in different periods of history. Embroidery is fully and deeply applied in many aspects of life, with its universal artistic decoration and cultural expression forms and functions, it has become an important carrier of cultural dissemination, exchange, and inheritance. Although the craftsmanship of Chinese embroidery has maintained the traditional form of manual labor, it has been active and innovative in the application and innovation of needlework, creative design of patterns, and expression of content, demonstrating the spirit of the times and Chinese characteristics in the inheritance and development of culture. The exhibition brings together representative and typical embroidery works from various regions and ethnic groups across the country, showcasing the excellent achievements of contemporary inheritance, innovation, and integration, systematically displaying the origin and evolution of representative embroidery types in different regions and periods. The exhibition combines works with tools, materials, documents, and interactive experiences to vividly and comprehensively present the development context and contemporary appearance of Chinese embroidery, revealing its unique cultural connotation, cultural tradition, and artistic charm, and interpreting the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation contained in it.