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“Guests, please go here. What you see now is that Cinema is our Yao ethnic villagers demonstrating the production process of Yao embroidery for everyone, including our national and provincial intangible cultural heritage inheritors.”
In the cold evening of Shaoguan, Guangdong, a tourist bus stopped at the door of the Yao Embroidery Culture Promotion Association in Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province. Under the guidance of Zhao Yonglan, dozens of guests from the Pearl River Delta region instantly stood in the exhibition hall of more than a hundred square meters. The guests were amazed at the needle method of “reverse embroidery” in Yao embroidery, and at the same time they became very interested in cultural and tourism products derived from Yao embroidery.
In recent years, with the joint efforts of the United Front Work Department of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission, the Provincial Guangcai Career Promotion Association and enthusiastic people, ethnic minority villages in Dongping Town, Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province have explored a way to normalize ethnic minority culture.
They came from the mountain
On the northwest side of the town of Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, there is a beautiful Yao village called Diaozitang Village. It is located in the middle of the ethnic ecological tourism corridor of Wucai Yao Township’s provincial new rural demonstration film, only 3 kilometers away from the county town, and is a Yao village within the Xincun Village Committee of Dongping Town. There are 60 households and 286 villagers in the village, most of whom are Yao compatriots.
Data records that the Yao people living in Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County belong to the “Mianyu Family” Kushan Yao. They moved from the north during the Sui and Tang Dynasties and lived in seclusion in the deep mountains and forests for a long time. Their production methods are mainly slash-and-burn farming and hunting. If the local area is no longer suitable for farming or the prey is scarceThe clan moved to another mountain to live, so it was called “Cross Mountain Yao”. “The Yao people here used to live on the mountain, with many beasts in the mountain. Later, the government improved the environment we lived in, and we gradually moved from the mountain.” Zhao Yunhua, secretary of the Xincun Village Committee, pointed to the mountains surrounding the village. “Most of the villagers in Diaozitang Village used to live in the mud brick houses with a history of nearly a hundred years, with people and animals living together, sewage flowing, and the production and living environment was very harsh. After helping us, our village has demolished the old and built the new site, which has made us today. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks‘s look like the day.”
Xincun Village Committee Secretary Zhao Yunhua
Diaozitang Village, Shaoguan, was included in the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee United Front Work Department and the Provincial Guangcai Career Promotion Association in 2013 and launched the entire village renovation project. “At that time, the Provincial Guangcai Promotion Association donated 6.5 million yuan of funds, and then used the financing methods of villagers raising some self-raised, financial subsidies, assistance units support, and social donations. A total of more than 10 million yuan was raised. The old was demolished and the new was built on the original site. 60 units were planned to be built, each with an area of 150 square meters, and the two-story and half-frame mixed structure buildings and a cultural building with the characteristics of Yao ethnic residential characteristics.” Zhao Cai, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, recalled.
Zhao Caibao, Deputy Director of the United Front Work Department of Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County
It is understood that from 2015 to the present, the village has successively used more than 8 million yuan of funds such as the provincial new rural demonstration film of Wucai Yao Township and the construction of civil defense evacuation squares to launch a village environmental improvement and improvement project, and has improved the asphalt village tunnels, village greening, rain and sewage diversion facilities and artificial wetland sewage treatment system, and built a civil defense evacuation function. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan‘s cultural and sports activities square is 2,520 square meters and parking lot is 710 square meters. Fitness equipment, solar street lights, lanterns and other facilities are installed, and pictures and texts and relief landscape walls that express the production and living scenes of Yao compatriots and the core socialist values are drawn. The production and living conditions of villagers have been further improved.
Diaozitang Village, Shaoguan
After some Yao compatriots “fall down from the mountains”, their living environment improved, but their economic income was not as good as before. “Some of them are older and have a low level of education. Many villages or towns cannot do work, and their income is affected. “Zhao Yunhua said: “But almost every household of Yao compatriots can use Yao embroidery, so we considered developing traditional handicrafts into an industry to help residents improve their family income. ”
YaoCinema girl “embroidery” and her craftsmanship has changed into business
Yao embroidery has a long history. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the Yao people had known to make clothes with wood vase. As early as the Han Dynasty, historical materials had recorded the Yao people’s embroidery. “The Yao people did not have their own words, and their history and inheritance were embroidered in the patterns of Yao people. “A guide at the China Yao Museum once introduced the embroidery of the Yao ethnic group in this way. As a treasure in Yao culture, Yao ethnic group embroidery, which was applied for by Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, Guangdong Province in May 2011, was successfully included in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Project Catalog.
“In order to do a good job in inheriting the intangible cultural heritage of Yao ethnic group embroidery, retain the unique characteristics of the Yao ethnic group embroidery composition, and inherit the unique “reverse embroidery”Special skills, the Xincun New Era Civilization Practice Station specially established the “Embroidered Beauty Yao Township” intangible cultural heritage inheritance volunteer service team in 2018. The members of the Cinema team are composed of 14 Yao embroidery enthusiasts from Yao villages such as Diaozitang, Dongshan, and Sankeng. With the purpose of inheriting and developing Yao embroidery’s family-level intangible cultural heritage Yao embroidery, it teaches women the production and creation skills of Yao embroidery elemental innovative products. “Zhao Yunhua introduced: “Through the volunteer service team, we support products with certain craft skills in Babaylan, rural poor women who work at home and integrate local craftsmanship with local Komiks.com/”>Komiks. Since its establishment, it has carried out 5 training activities, served more than 200 people, and cultivated a group of innovative Yao embroidery talents. ”
With products, there must be sales. In 2017, Zhao Yonglan, who returned home from the Pearl River Delta region to start a business, provided more opportunities for her Yao compatriots. “One of the best ways to help inherit traditional culture is to find content that is in line with the times from tradition and bring it to a new modern business context. “As the head of the Yao Embroidery Culture Promotion Association, Zhao Yonglan deeply loves Yao Embroidery that has grown up with her since childhood. After years of strolling around, she also saw that in order to better pass on traditional culture, she must “live” for these cultures.
Zhao Yonglan, head of the Yao Embroidery Culture Promotion Association,Babaylan, she also saw that in order to better pass on traditional culture, she must “live” for these cultures.
Zhao Yonglan is a Yao compatriot in Bibei Village, Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County. She is a member of the Yao Embroidery Cooperative and is also one of the inheritors of Ruyuan Yao Embroidery. Zhao Yonglan said: “I learned Yao Embroidery from my mother since I was 6 years old. I learned until I was 17 years old and fully mastered the embroidery ability to make a complete Yao Embroidery. ”
Regarding the traditional art of Yao embroidery, Zhao Cinema Yonglan said, “I think it is feasible to think with a business model. “From the beginning of thinking about mass-producing small pendants and accessories, to setting up workshops, entering equipment, and designing Yao embroidery clothing that integrates modern clothing, Zhao Yonglan found a new way out for the inheritance of Yao embroidery.
“When ordinary people wear clothes with Yao embroidery, it is easier to carry forward Yao embroidery. Only when someone uses it is the driving force for growth and can it be passed on. “Zhao Yonglan said: “Through clothing, we have horizontally expanded tourism souvenirs, hotel supplies in homestays, etc., and even crafts for home decoration. ”
How to solve the source of Yao clothing? Zhao YonglanCinema Through relevant departments, he contacted several villages in Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, including Diaozitang Village, to the nearby embroidery girlCinema Through relevant departments, he contacted several villages in Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, including Diaozitang Village, and went to the nearby embroidery girlKomiks place an order. In addition to selling the works of embroiderers through local cooperatives, some of them are provided to Zhao Yonglan and the Yao Embroidery Culture Promotion Association, and are sold through integration with other items.
Abao from Diaozitang Village said that her embroidery works have more channels to go outside the village, and she and her sisters in the village also volunteered together.KomikBabaylan in the team helped to teach young children the skills of Yao embroidery.
Village Abao
National culture normalization
The Yao people are a nation with a very long history, and the Yao people are also a nation that can sing and dance. During the Chinese New Year and the festival, the Yao people would wear the festive ensembles and dance. Make glutinous rice cakes during the Spring Festival; during the farmers’ harvest festival, they wear ethnic costumes and dance around torches, and share the fruits of autumn harvest with the 220,000 Yao and Han compatriots in Ruyuan County; in the “40 Years of Reform and Opening-up, Yao Mass Dialect Komiks Hometown Changes” activity, in Yao, Hakka and Mandarin, ethnic minority culture has become normalized here due to the friendly integration of Yao and Han people. At the commemorative evening of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, a Yao ethnic fellow said excitedly in Yao language: “Reform and opening up is the ‘golden key’ of our country, and it is also the path we must stick to.” In his conversation with reporters, Zhao Caibao mentioned more than once that “Yao compatriots have been farming mountains for generations and have come out to live in the county town. They must live and settle down and share the fruits of our reform and opening up.” Through more than ten years of hard work, Ruyuan Yao is currently The Yao villages in Babaylan Autonomous County have basically solved the housing problem. Regarding future plans, Zhao Caibao said that he should use the funds for ethnic minority development to focus on exploring and building ethnic minority cultures and traditions. He said: “Yao Embroidery has set a good start for us. Next, we will build a Yao Medical and Yao Medicine Street in the town, and pass on the treasures of ethnic minorities and promote them to society through the aggregation of industries and the combination of tourism.”