Suzhou embroidery has a history of more than two thousand years, and it has reached a considerable scale in the Song Dynasty. In Suzhou, there are workshops and alleys with centralized production, such as embroidery garment workshop, embroidery lane, rolling embroidery workshop and embroidery line lane. Xiang embroidery is the general name of embroidery products centered on Changsha, Hunan. Animals such as lions and tigers embroidered with special hair pins are powerful.
Shu embroidery, also known as "Sichuan embroidery", is the general name of embroidery products centered on Chengdu, Sichuan. Embroidered satin quilt cover and traditional product "Furong Carp" are the most famous. Guangdong embroidery is the general name of Guangdong embroidery and Chaozhou embroidery, and the technological level of Guangdong embroidery in the Tang Dynasty has been extraordinary. Guangdong embroidery is collected by museums in Britain, France, Germany and the United States.
Embroidery:
Chinese embroidery, also known as silk embroidery and needle embroidery, is one of the outstanding national traditional crafts in China. China is the first country in the world to discover and use silk. Four or five thousand years ago, people began to raise silkworms for reeling. With the use of silk, the emergence and development of silk products, embroidery technology has gradually emerged.
According to the Book of History, as early as 4,000 years ago, the system of chapter clothes stipulated that "clothes should be embroidered". In the Zhou Dynasty, there was a record of "embroidery * * *". The level of embroidery in the Warring States and Han Dynasties unearthed in Hubei and Hunan is very high. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, embroidery was used for painting, calligraphy and decoration.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the scale of court embroidery was large, and folk embroidery was further developed. Suzhou Embroidery, Guangdong Embroidery, Xiang Embroidery and Shu Embroidery came into being one after another, and they are called "Four Famous Embroideries".