As one of the "Yanjing Eight absolutely", Beijing was the superior embroidered embroidery specially for the royal service. Today, in this line of fewer and fewer people, with the death of some of the old artists, this door has a strong Chinese culture and traditional arts and crafts on the verge of extinction. Beijing embroidery is hand embroidery, also known as the Palace of embroidery. Beijing embroidered a very long history, the Han Dynasty has grown and prospered, reaching a peak Liao Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty for the gold and silver embroidery gold plate, resplendent. To the Qing Dynasty, Beijing embroidered with jade, cloisonne, ivory carvings, gold lacquer inlay, lacquer, silk inlay, palace carpet (carpet) and known as the "Yanjing Eight absolutely."

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Beijing Beijing is embroidered unique traditional craftsmanship, from the Liao and Jin, founded on Yuan, Ming and Qing Sheng. Mending from "heap Aya", "paste silk", and absorb the embroidery skills, is a natural plant fibers (cotton, hemp, silk) for the material, is embossed, weaving, embroidery, stitching, heap paste, spinning and other decorative arts combining a variety of techniques. Beijing mending process has always valued the ancient imperial palace Office was called up to the national embroidery Mingjiang around Beijing, made specifically robes, Palace of clothing, interior decoration supplies for the court, its delicate choice of materials and precious, delicate labor, production at Gongben, rich embroidery and luxurious with a strong three-dimensional sense of relief. Construction Section of the Qing Dynasty has embroidered Bureau, which produced the Royal, the King apparel embroidery patterns. In Dynasty, dynasty emperor and ordered wishful Pavilion embroidery artist to draw embroidery patterns, the Painting style into embroidery, embroidered Beijing making process reached its peak height.

Among the many species in the country embroidery, embroidered by the Beijing court most affected. Which is elegant, fine, beautiful patterns, stitch flexible, delicate embroidery, vivid as the main feature. Spiraea its bright color, pastel colors and porcelain, enamel similar colorful luxury.

Embroidery stress Beijing slowly and deliberately, embroidered on the method, it is necessary to achieve "flat, light, Qi, Yun, and, cis, thin, dense." Yao Fu rafter told reporters that Beijing embroidered a dozen stitches, a decorative palm-sized female flag embroidered dress a minimum of 20 days, a Chinese-style open-embroidered clothes to 10 months. He also emphasized that the whole work must be done by one person alone, this will not result because of the different strength of the hand embroidery patterns are infrequent and are.

- Beijing court mending -

Since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Beijing gold and silver embroidery for embroidery, to show the magnificent, rare precious. Bright yellow tone in Chinese tradition is powerful. Gold and silver with gold, silver foil hammer, twisting, precious materials, process complexity, the pattern into the gold and silver plate, with a solid color embroidered on a textile, called "gold plate", on which embroidery Chinese embroidery in a unique, full royal style, fully reflects the wealth of exquisite palace aesthetic art. Now used gold and silver, are alternatives.

Best embodies the embroidery work but also a former emperor wearing robes, an almost full embroidered robes, a craftsman to make two years to complete the first nine dragon gold embroidery hand-rub, Jiang career pattern is seawater the highest level of five water rivers, auspicious Eight, twelve chapters like Less palace, decorated with more coral, pearls and other precious stones, so wear very heavy.

Beijing embroidered embroidery differs from other areas that pay more attention to the connotation pattern. The "palace embroidery" strictly follow "map will be interested in, will be auspicious patterns," the purpose. Since the Yuan Dynasty capital in Beijing, with the social stability and economic development of the feudal dynasty, there have been mainly used for embroidery tribute royal court costumes, decorative. Court order to better serve its focus on excellent craftsmen across the country to Beijing. To the Qing Dynasty, Qing in ad hoc "embroidered Bureau" specializes in embroidery activities for the royal service.

Meaning "palace embroidery" pattern is not only imperative Fernando Cheung, also the wearer's identity, identify social status. In the Qing Dynasty, "Qing Hui" for the emperor, after the clothing design patterns Prince, Baylor, wearing minister used, colors are clear and specific standards. "Cairica" ​​royal special, other ministers will not be allowed for use on clothing, jewelry, wearable only four-claw dragon-shaped guitar clothes, Mangpao. The civil and military officials of grade should take the missed dose on the chest, back and two embroidery patterns to distinguish. Princes, Baylor make up for the round, square up civil and military officials. The patterns are all kinds of birds civilian, on behalf of literary talent, military attache of the pattern is different beasts, a symbol of the mighty, powerful.

Homonym, knowing, metonymy and metaphor method is not only reflected in the difference between the level of ministers and dragon symbolizes the emperor of birds, beasts, in every embroidery of flowers and grass, a bird and a beast, one person, one thing is given the specific meaning of the convention. Only a small horse-faced (Women in Qing skirt decorated on both sides) on the auspicious contains five kinds: the four treasures of representatives from the scholarly family, four seasons flowers and vases on behalf of Four Seasons peace, wealth Peony representatives, representatives of the bracket placed a vase of well-organized , bergamot look forward to Buddha bless. Yao Fu said rafter, and our common butterflies in Beijing embroidered clothing combination 100 is moral one hundred Die. The ancients said that for more than 80 years as a ripe old age, one hundred Die homonym is a sincere desire for longevity.

Beijing embroidered precise and appropriate choice of materials precious, opulent, spared no expense. Beijing embroidery on velvet embroidered with their unique. Beijing representative works of embroidery, stitch permeated the dump days of powerful emperor Qin Gui. The last emperor robe of gold in a higher proportion of gold, gold is now 5% of the gold to be five or six hundred pound, to several hundred dollars a pound of wool, colorful embroidery threads are not cheap, with special embroidery library satin is more easy to find. Now a lot of raw materials is not the original raw material. "If you do not have this material it is not Beijing embroidery, ordinary fabric, embroidery thread embroidery made of a color is not right as I've seen fake outside Beijing embroidered embroidered good graphics as much as before, and then according to different parts color staining. this is simply a waste of craft. "Yao Fu rafter reluctantly told reporters.

Since the Beijing embroidered difficult to learn to master, limited social needs, low income practitioners, in recent years, people engaged in this industry less and less. Plus some old artist died, the Beijing embroidered at the brink of lost state. As the ancient traditional arts and crafts, Beijing embroidery on Chinese Wen Ming through this tree to bear rich fruits, now proficient in Beijing embroidered fewer and fewer people, pay attention to this delicate handicraft is facing confusion no heir.