In order to enrich the campus cultural life, a series of Chaoshan cultural experience activities, such as Chaoshan vernacular architecture, Chao Embroidery and Chaoshan Gongfu tea art performance are held at GTIIT, to promote the understanding of the excellent traditional culture of Chaoshan area and let more people feel the charm of it. This time a unique Chaozhou embroidery activity was held at GTIIT.

On September 5th, Ms. Hong Yujing, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of Chaozhou embroidery, held a sharing session of Chaozhou embroidery culture to GTIIT teachers and students. This activity was held by GTIIT Student Affairs Department and GTIIT Education Foundation. In the sharing session, Ms. Hong talked about the allusions, techniques, tools, expressions and other aspects of the Chaozhou embroidery, and led the audiences to experience the embroidery process together.

Chaozhou embroidery is one of the famous embroideries in China. It has a long history. Chaozhou embroidery began in the Tang Dynasty and became well-known in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some interesting allusions are circulated among the people, such as: needlecraft allusions, general dog head, aunt bird and so on. Chaozhou embroidery has a strong local style. It has full composition, various stitches, clear texture, gold and silver thread inlays, high supporting ground, strong color, and strong decorativeness.

The biggest feature of Chaozhou embroidery is technique. There are five major techniques of Chaozhou embroidery. Among them, the Dingjin embroidery is the most unique, that is, putting some cotton wool on the embroidery floor, the highest is more than one inch. Then embroider the gold velvet thread to make the embroidery look like a relief, rich in three-dimensional impression. This kind of embroidery is unique among the four famous embroidery.

In this Chaozhou embroidery activity, Ms. Hong Yujing showed everyone the flat stitch embroidery method, which is a basic technique. Under the guidance of Ms. Hong, the audience used the appearance of the Innovation Center as a draft for embroidery creation, and felt the beauty of Chaozhou embroidery in practice.

Chen Yundi, a GTIIT student, said that although she has a foundation in cross-stitching, this activity still benefits her a lot. The wonderful allusions and colorful tide embroidery techniques made her interested in the beauty of Chaozhou embroidery.

Text: Qian Xinyu, Deng Tongqian, GTIIT News & Public Affairs

Photos: Peng Yibo, Luo Peng, GTIIT News & Public Affairs