Chinese brocade and embroidery dazzles in Hainan Free Trade Port

 

KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (Bernama) -- The four-day 2022 (2nd) Hainan Brocade and Embroidery World Culture Week in Hainan Free Trade Port of southern China was launched on June 28.

This event aims to forge the culture week into an internationally influential platform for the world brocade and embroidery culture exchange and exhibition via a series of wonderful activities, according to Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports of Hainan Province.

In the evening, the fashion show of ‘Clothing under the Sun’ presented the national intangible cultural heritage projects of Yunjin (Yun brocade), Songjin (Song brocade) and Lijin (Li brocade) through the splendid costumes with fashion trend and traditional cultural charm.

The show, combined with the international fashion style, predominant colour, displays the vigour and vitality of Hainan Lijin, and makes the public feel the charming glamour of the intangible cultural heritage of Hainan.

According to a statement, Hainan Li brocade has a history of development for more than 3,000 years. Its skill is the oldest cotton textile dyeing and embroidery technology in China and even in the whole world, known as the ‘living fossil’ of China's textile industry. 

In 2009, Li brocade was inscribed on the first batch of UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.

As one of the important activities of the Hainan Brocade and Embroidery World Culture Week, with the ‘Brocade and Embroidery World’ as the theme, the first intangible cultural heritage traditional embroidery printing and dyeing art exhibition in 2022 was launched in Haikou.

Many excellent intangible cultural heritage projects gathered here from all over China, such as the Zhuangjin (Zhuang brocade) technique, the skills of fish-skin production of Heze ethic group, and Songjin (Song brocade) weaving skills. 

In addition, the Hainan Brocade and Embroidery World Culture Week also held a series of activities, such as the Hainan Brocade and Embroidery World Culture Week Promotion Conference.

-- BERNAMA