Yangxin Embroidery

Hubei
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In Yangxin County, there is a traditional custom that girls wear embroidered shoes, embroidered clothes, and embroidered pillows when they get married. Most women in urban and rural areas have exquisite green flower purses filled with various colored silk threads and paper-cut patterns. The custom of being a female worker is very common. In the past, after a girl got engaged, she had to prepare shoes for everyone in her husband's family as a gift, and women usually made embroidered shoes. They also made suitable embroidery for their own or their relatives' newborns or used them as full-moon gifts. The embroidery craft is very prosperous, and its main works include embroidered shoes, embroidered pillows, pillowcases, pillow towels, embroidered skirts, handkerchiefs, sachets, etc. In terms of art, embroidery is the main form, with paper-cutting as a model, delicate workmanship, and the composition is mainly flowers, birds, mountains and rivers, with characters and stories.

Intangible culture related to the heritage

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