Chuxiong Intangible Cultural Heritage Tour: Discover the Beauty of Chuxiong and the Charm of Yi Embroidery!

Chuxiong Intangible Cultural Heritage Tour, Discover the Beauty of Chuxiong, the Infinite Charm of Yi Embroidery. In the passionate July, I was invited to participate in the "Internet Influencers Chuxiong Tour - Discover the Beauty of Chuxiong" event, to explore the unique culture of the Yi ethnic group and feel the charm of Yi villages. This journey to discover the beauty of Chuxiong includes an in-depth experience of intangible cultural heritage Yi embroidery, recommendations of Chuxiong's good products, and patriotic education among other rich contents. This article focuses on introducing the Yi embroidery of Chuxiong, hoping to be helpful to readers. ✅ Chuxiong Yi Embroidery Museum With the explanation of professionals, we visited the Chuxiong Yi Embroidery Museum. Thus began our understanding of Yi embroidery and discovering its infinite charm. The Chuxiong Yi Embroidery Museum is located in the Yi People's Ancient Town of Chuxiong City. We visited the three-story exhibition hall here. Yi embroidery includes not only handicrafts and clothing but also exquisite and beautiful scarves, bags, accessories, and souvenirs. The dazzling array of exquisite Yi embroidery works, each one is particularly lovable. Here, nearly five hundred sets (pieces) of Yi ethnic costumes and Yi embroidery masterpieces are collected, covering the Yi areas of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, spanning more than a hundred years from the late Qing Dynasty to the present. This Yi embroidery travel experience revealed that Yi embroidery is an important carrier of Yi traditional culture. Yi ethnic costumes have a long history of more than 1,700 years, and Yi embroidery is also an indispensable part of Yi ethnic costumes. Yi embroidery is diverse, rich, exquisitely made, and colorful. In 2009, "Chuxiong Yi Embroidery" was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage; in 2014, "Chuxiong Yi Costumes" was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage. In my previous understanding, I always had a deeper impression of the Chuxiong Torch Festival. Through this travel experience, I discovered the infinitely exquisite intangible cultural heritage Yi embroidery. The Chuxiong Yi Embroidery Museum is located in the Yi People's Ancient Town, a great place for you to understand the Yi embroidery culture of Chuxiong and find beautiful Yi embroidery products. Traveling to Chuxiong, feeling the charm of intangible cultural heritage, the Yi Embroidery Museum is worth a visit! Special reminder: It is open to the public for free. The curator of the Chuxiong Yi Embroidery Museum is Zhang Liqiong, a master of embroidery crafts in Yunnan Province, the legal representative, vice president, and secretary-general of the Chuxiong Prefecture Women's Yi Embroidery Association, and also the legal representative of Yunnan Yi Cai Cultural and Creative Industry Development Co., Ltd. ✅ Yi Embroidery Workshop To further understand and experience Chuxiong Yi embroidery, we also visited the Lizi Garden Yi Embroidery Workshop. Listening to the non-genetic inheritor of Yi embroidery, Li Changzheng, narrate, and seeing many beautiful "Yi Embroidery World" products, which are sold domestically and internationally. In the Yi embroidery cultural practice base, we saw embroiderers meticulously embroidering exquisite patterns. In the workshop's Yi embroidery workshop, the "passing on, helping, and leading" of Yi embroidery is fully demonstrated, with the thousand-year-old treasure flowing from fingertips. Every stitch and thread of Yi embroidery reflects the ethnic culture at the fingertips. It is understood that Chuxiong Yi embroidery has more than seventy kinds of stitches, of which fourteen kinds of Yi embroidery stitches cannot be replaced by machines, especially the seed stitch, spiral stitch, and wrapped stitch, which must be done by hand. The general method of Yi embroidery is: first draw a pattern on paper, then make it into paper-cut, then paste the paper-cut on the prepared fabric, and the Yi girls choose different colors, thicknesses, and materials of embroidery threads according to the pattern, and finally choose different stitches to embroider stitch by stitch. ✅ Infinite Charm of Yi Embroidery The charm of Chuxiong Yi embroidery is infinite, embroidering a beautiful life and a beautiful life. Traveling to Chuxiong Yi embroidery, experiencing a life called Yunnan. Chuxiong is one of the two Yi Autonomous Prefectures in the country. There is a saying that "the weather changes every ten miles, and the clothes change across the mountains," which describes the richness and diversity of Yi embroidery. It is understood that there are also "Yi Embroidery World" product stores in the Yi People's Ancient Town, with a rich variety of Yi embroidery products, and there are also Yi ethnic costume travel photography projects. Interested tourists can go and have a look. Representative figures of Chuxiong Yi embroidery include Ding Lanying, Chen Haiyan, Jin Ruirui, etc. Through them and with their help, Chuxiong Yi embroidery has shone brightly. Chuxiong Yi embroidery works have also appeared at Milan Fashion Week in Italy. The intangible cultural heritage Yi embroidery skills have "come to life" in the process of inheritance and development, allowing more people to experience the infinite charm of Yi embroidery. Most of Chuxiong's Yi embroidery products are based on totems. Through continuous innovation and inheritance, nearly a thousand products have been created. Through different forms of incubation, many Yi embroidery industries have flourished. Visiting and experiencing Chuxiong Yi embroidery, we found that its innovative development space is very large. A large number of Yi embroidery workshops not only solved the employment of more than 50,000 women but also processed orders through various online channels, increasing annual income by nearly 270 million yuan. After new training, Yi embroidery skills have improved, allowing people to work at ease in their hometowns, solving the care and love problems of the "elderly and young". ✅ Chuxiong Good Products Recommendation Traveling to Chuxiong, discovering the beauty of Chuxiong; discovering Chuxiong, encountering Yi embroidery; Chuxiong good products recommendation, Yi embroidery products are the first choice. 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