Tea Duyun Maojian Tea is produced in Duyun City in southern Guizhou. It is listed as one of China's famous tea treasures with its beautiful appearance and unique style. Duyun Maojian tea production has a long history, more than 500 years ago. According to historical records, as early as the Ming Dynasty, Duyun Maojian tea was already a fine product offered as tribute to the imperial court, and was deeply loved by Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. Because its shape resembled a fishhook, it was named "Fishhook Tea". Guizhou is located on a plateau, and the Duyun Maojian tea-producing area is full of peaks, towering cliffs, and mist-locked clouds. The soil is deep, loose and moist, coupled with rainfall. Natural conditions such as year-round temperature and sunshine are suitable for the growth of tea trees, so Duyun Maojian tea is unique. Guiding Yunwu Tea stands in Yunwu Mountain, 80 kilometers south of Guiyang. It is home to hard-working and intelligent Miao compatriots. The people have a historical habit of growing tea. This is the famous origin of Guiding Yunwu Tea - Yangwang Township and Yunwu Township in Guiding County. Yunwu Mountain is the main peak of the Miaoling Mountains, with an altitude of up to 1,500 meters. The soil in the two townships and villages in the production area is loose. It is acidic, has overlapping peaks, and is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round. It is covered by clouds and mist, but also exposed to sunlight, with a large temperature difference between day and night. There are crisscrossing streams in the mountains. It is one of the ancient tea areas, and the tea produced is of extremely high quality. "Guiding Tongzhi" of the Republic of China records: "Every genus in Guizhou Province produces tea, and Guiding Yunwu Tea is the most famous. Unfortunately, the output is small, and it is very difficult to obtain... In the past, they were all tributes." Guiding Yunwu Tea is the best tea. It is determined by the local species with high taste, excellent quality and good physical and chemical indicators. After three times of frying, three kneading, kneading and rolling, and slow baking, the tea looks like a fishhook, is well-proportioned and beautiful, has a bright green color, is backed by a layer of soft white hair, and has a fragrant and mellow smell. It can be brewed four bowls in a row. The taste is still good, so it has a wide market. Kaiyang Nangong Tea Kaiyang Nangong Tea is produced in Nanlong Township, Kaiyang County. It was used as a tribute to the imperial court during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The tea has many white hairs, beautiful appearance, light green and bright color, erect leaf buds, like bamboo shoots after snow, fragrant and mellow taste, refreshing and moist. Qianhong Qianhong is the abbreviation of Guizhou broken black tea. It is mainly produced in large and medium-sized professional tea farms such as Meitan, Yangai, Huagong, Guangshun and Shuangliu. Guizhou is located in a subtropical monsoon climate zone, and the tea farms that produce black broken tea are distributed in the hilly terraces or valley basins in the central, northern, and southern parts of Guizhou Province. Due to high temperatures and multiple temperatures, rain and heat in the same season, and large temperature differences between day and night, large-leaf varieties, medium-leaf varieties, and local group varieties in these areas grow vigorously and have thick leaves. Its contents such as amino acids and tea polyphenols increase. . Guizhou broken black tea is famous for its high aroma, good freshness and unique quality. Due to differences in origin, tea tree species and processing methods, the quality of each tea has its own characteristics. The medium-leaf type black crushed tea of ??Sheep Artemisia has a particularly high aroma, and has been ranked among the best in the third set of samples in the country for many times, and has been rated as a high-quality product; the Qinglong Huagong large-leaf type black crushed tea has reached the national standard for the second set of samples, and its quality is close to Dianhong is comparable to black tea from Sri Lanka and India; Kaiyang Shuangliu broken black tea was awarded the 1983 Ministry of Foreign Trade Quality Product Honorary Certificate; the black broken tea from Nitan Tea Farm was promoted as a high-quality product by the Ministry of Commerce. Qiantao Zhaosi Tea Zhaosi Tea is produced in Zhaosi Village, Qiantao Township, a suburb of Guiyang City. It has a long history and is quite famous. It is said that during the Kangxi period, Zhou Yuhuang, a Jinshi from Guizhou and a compiler of the Hanlin Academy, presented Zhao Si tea from his hometown as tribute to the emperor. Since then, there has been a legend that "tasting Zhou Gong Zhao Si tea, the fragrance is very fragrant inside and outside the imperial officials". The green tea produced by Zhao Si Tea is roasted and processed. It has an even appearance and is not broken. The tea soup is yellow-green in color and has a refreshing fragrance. Yang Ai Black Tea The black tea produced by Guiyang Yang Ai Farm is the most outstanding black tea in our province. As early as 1979, it won the title of Red Champion at the Changsha National Tea Conference. It combines the three characteristics of black tea: thick, strong, and fresh. It has thick cords, dark color, bright red color, strong astringency, and strong and refreshing tea flavor. Crafts Bonama Dustpan Painting Bonama Dustpan Painting is a painting of ethnic minority farmers in Guiyang City. Bonamo, in the Buyi language, refers to the Yunwu Mountain that dominates the suburbs of the city. Ordinary farmers often use dustpans to draw flowers, insects, fish, birds and animals, sun, moon, mountains and rivers, Chinese legends, interesting things in the world, etc., and they become simple and elegant works of art. Bonama dustpan paintings are full of rich nostalgia and full of national characteristics. Dafang Lacquerware Famous at home and abroad, Dafang Lacquerware is a traditional arts and crafts product rich in ethnic style produced in Dafang County (formerly known as Dading), Guizhou Province. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Dafang lacquerware was selected as "tribute" to the emperor in Beijing.
Used as home furnishings to decorate study rooms and living rooms, it adds antique elegance. It is also used as a utensil in daily life among the people, and can be used to hold dried and fresh fruits, preserves and even dishes. Dafang lacquerware was very popular during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, almost every household in the ancient city of Dadingfu could make lacquerware, so it was known as the "Lacquer City". The characteristics of Dafang lacquerware are that the patterns are elegant and lifelike, the shapes are simple, the paint color is bright and can reflect people's shadows, the color is bright, durable, and it has a distinctive national color. Used as tableware, it has no heat conduction, no odor, no water leakage, no insect infestation, acid and alkali resistance, not easy to decay, does not fade, etc. Currently, Dafang produces more than 280 varieties of lacquerware, including bowls, plates, boxes, pots, bottles, cups, screens, furniture, toys, etc., of which 126 varieties are sold externally. Dafang lacquerware uses well-selected materials, using cow and horsehide as well as cloth bodies. The above-mentioned lacquers are used as coatings. Generally, one product requires more than forty processes to complete. The lacquerware production process can be divided into several important links such as blank making, lacquer flooring, and decoration. What is more complicated is the decoration. There are more than 100 kinds of decoration techniques, which can be divided into three types: floating flowers, flat flowers and dark flowers. These craftsmanship are extremely exquisite and embody the characteristics of our country. The wisdom and creativity of working people. Generous lacquerware, exquisite workmanship, delicate and colorful, showing the beautiful scenery of nature. Guizhou Buyi Carpet The Buyi ethnic group is widely distributed in Guizhou Province and is one of the ethnic minorities that retains many of its traditional habits. They are hard-working and brave, and are good at singing and dancing. In particular, women's batik, embroidery, weaving, and cross-stitch skills have been preserved to this day and have been continuously developed, forming Guizhou's unique folk craftsmanship and strong national art style. The Buyi carpet produced by Anshun Carpet Factory is a new flower blooming on this fertile soil of folk art. It integrates excellent national and folk patterns, introduces new ones, and develops them on the basis of inheritance. It is loved by Chinese and foreign people and has local and national characteristics. The patterns include "pomegranates and peaches" representing freedom, happiness and longevity, and "butterflies, fish and flowers" symbolizing happiness and contentment. It is carefully woven from high-quality wool and is highly elastic. The product pattern is clear, lively, three-dimensional, novel and unique. The color scheme is generally white and blue, which makes people feel elegant, bright, simple and full of local flavor. Buyi carpets currently have 90 lines, 120 lines and other varieties. Guizhou Batik Batik is a famous folk handicraft in Guizhou and one of the ancient traditional printing and dyeing methods in my country. The patterns of Guizhou batik are mainly flowing clouds, flowing water, flowers, fish, insects, poultry, birds and geometric patterns. The materials are widely used, and the shapes are eclectic and full of romanticism. Guizhou is a multi-ethnic province, and batik art styles are also colorful and have different characteristics due to different local ethnic groups and regions. For example, some are neat and rigorous, highlighting symmetry; some use geometric figures as the theme structure, which looks fresh and beautiful; some batiks add red and yellow colors to make their colors deeper and richer; some use large blue backgrounds with white flowers. Colorful silk thread embroidery makes it more colorful and unique. Guizhou Lusheng Villages inhabited by ethnic minorities throughout Guizhou are known as the "hometown of reed pipes" and "hometown of singing and dancing". Lusheng is one of the ancient musical instruments especially loved by ethnic minorities. During festivals, they hold various and colorful Lusheng parties, blow the Lusheng and dance to celebrate their own ethnic festivals. Lusheng has a history of more than a thousand years. As far back as the Tang Dynasty, ethnic minority people in Guizhou began making reeds, and many outstanding reed players emerged. In ancient times, those who came to Beijing to pay tribute once brought their Lusheng to the palace to play, which was highly praised by the court officials. With the changes of the times, the shape and playing techniques of the Lusheng have been improved while maintaining the original style. Today's reeds have six, ten and twelve pipes, and their lengths are two feet, five feet and more than ten feet. In addition to maintaining the original simplicity and melodiousness, the tunes of the reeds are changeable and lively. Especially when accompanied by the deep and powerful sound of the horn, the sound and volume of the Lusheng are aggravated, making it particularly euphemistic and moving. The changes in its jumping and dancing postures are even greater. Not only are the jumping steps and kicks strong and powerful, but the dancing postures are also free and easy, and the movements are graceful. Lusheng guilds in minority areas of Guizhou are large-scale, with as few as a few thousand people, as many as tens of thousands, or as many as hundreds of thousands. Ten miles away, one can hear the melodious sound of the reed playing. Zunyi silk fabrics Zunyi silk has a long history and is the birthplace of Guizhou silk. During the reign of Emperor Qian of the Qing Dynasty, silkworm breeding and nest silk methods and techniques were introduced from outside.
By the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Zunyi had become the silk trade center of Guizhou. In recent years, the silk fabrics produced have been sold well in China and even throughout Southeast Asia. The quality of the products is comparable to Hangzhou silk. In addition, Zunyi's silk fabrics include worker and peasant quilts, satin back warps, beautiful silks, etc. The characteristics of silk fabrics are: the silk body is tight, the hand feels smooth and soft, as warm as jade, light and gorgeous, and has the unique natural luster of mulberry silk. Zunyi's silk fabrics are exported to Beijing, Shanghai, Lanzhou and other places. Raw silk and kimono silk are also exported to Japan and are well received by people at home and abroad. Log Art Log Art uses woody, vine and herbaceous plants with epidermis found in nature as materials. Therefore, the works are both simple and natural and have modern beauty, showing the ancient, mysterious, simple and rugged aesthetic taste of Guizhou's local primitive culture. . Some of its wounds are majestic, some are meaningful and profound, and some are lively and cute. The "Chen Baiqiu Log Art Exhibition" held at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing was highly praised by the art circles at home and abroad, and three of his works were collected by the National Art Museum of China. There is a log art exhibition hall in Baiyun District, Guiyang City. Yuping Flute is produced in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, known as the "Hometown of Flute and Flute". It is a traditional handicraft and national musical instrument of the Dong people and has a history of more than 300 years. The flute was listed as a tribute in the Qing Dynasty, so it is also called tribute flute. The jade screen flute is made from local small water bamboo. The bamboo joints are long and even, and the tube wall is thick and strong, which is not easy to break or be eaten by insects. The sound quality of the flute is pure and the timbre is mellow, especially the oval flat flute, which has a better timbre and is the best among Xiao. The traditional carvings of jade screen flutes are quite distinctive. The phoenixes and dragons flying are lifelike; the landscapes, flowers and birds are fresh and charming; the cursive and regular script are smooth and elegant. Miao embroidery cross-stitching Most of the Miao women in Guizhou are good at flying needles and threads. The most obvious parts of their embroidered clothes are often embroidered with various beautiful patterns: gold flowers and silver fruits, colorful butterflies and birds, swimming dragons and flying phoenixes, as well as all kinds of strange fish, shrimps, insects and crabs. It can be said that they are so diverse and fascinating. dizzy. On various festive days, such as "April 8th", "June 6th", "Sisters' Day", "Flower Dance", "Bullfighting" and other festivals, Miao girls have to wear embroidered clothes embroidered by themselves. , dress up, and compete with each other to show their intelligence and dexterity and win the admiration of the young man. The Miao people have many embroidery stitches. Common stitching methods include flat embroidery, broken embroidery, cloth appliqué, seed embroidery, plate embroidery, braid embroidery, thread embroidery and dozens of other stitching methods. These embroidery stitches are simple, graceful, smooth and shiny. Miao embroidery stitches have strong decorative interest and are thought-provoking. The patterns of Miao embroidery have their own characteristics depending on the region. The embroidery patterns in Taijiang, Shibing and other areas in southeastern Guizhou Province often use totem patterns to commemorate the ancestor "Dragon Lord"; the Shidong area likes birds, beasts, fish, and shrimps; the Congjiang area prefers flowers, grass, and poultry. These embroideries mostly use bright contrasting colors, which are very touching. In addition to embroidery skills, Guizhou Miao women are also good at flower-picking, among which Huaxi Miao women are the most famous. Huaxi flower-stitching has a history of hundreds of years. The ancient Huaxi cross-stitch patterns are rigorous and mainly fishbone patterns. Today's Huaxi flower-picking has some innovations on the basis of tradition. Both in color and structure, it is more in line with the aesthetic requirements of modern people. The cross-stitch patterns have a wide range of themes, but Huaxi cross-stitch commonly uses plant patterns, such as prickly pear flowers, pansies, anise flowers, cockscombs, etc., and rarely animal and human patterns. The composition form generally adopts symmetry, two sides are continuous, separate patterns, etc. The forms are diverse and flexible. The color used for cross-stitching is relatively simple. The five main colors are white, red, yellow, peach, and green, with very few other colors mixed in. Due to the technical limitations of cross stitching, the cross-stitch pattern has a general, concise shape, a "geometric" shape, and a strong decorative interest. During the embroidery process, in order to prevent the embroidery from getting dirty, most embroidery experts use double or single strands of silk thread to embroider from the reverse side, forming the unique artistic style of "reverse and front view" in the Huaxi area. Guizhou Miao embroidery cross-stitch is often used in clothing, cushions, wall hangings, backpacks and other daily necessities, with a simple and beautiful decorative effect. Guizhou Miao embroidery cross-stitch has been sold to many countries around the world and is loved by people from all over the world. Male essence carving "male essence" is a crystal in realgar ore, belonging to the orthorhombic crystal system, orange-yellow in color, and translucent. Carving handicrafts made of male essence are unique and one of the traditional handicrafts of Guizhou. Realgar is one of Guizhou’s specialties. However, it is difficult to extract "male essence", so the output is very small and very expensive. Carvings of male spirits have been popular since the Qing Dynasty.
Historically, the Xiongjing carving crafts produced in Guiyang include immortal Buddha statues, three stars (the lucky star, the lucky star, the longevity star), historical figures, Ruyi and other ornaments, accessories, toys, etc. Guizhou National Brocade Guizhou National Brocade is called "Zhihua" by the local people. She is a magnificent mountain flower in the garden of folk dyeing and weaving crafts of brothers and sisters of the motherland. Her fragrance spreads on both sides of the Qingshui River in the Guizhou Plateau. It has been passed down from generation to generation among the Miao, Dong and Buyi people, and is a favorite of women of all ethnic groups in Guizhou. National folk handicrafts with strong national style and local characteristics. The weaving of Guizhou ethnic brocade is done by hand-picking and weaving yarns using earthen machines, that is, weaving warps, wefts, and weft threads. It is divided into two categories: plain brocade and colorful brocade. Most of the plain brocades are based on black and white and are woven with both warp and weft, such as Dong brocade from Congjiang area in southeastern Guizhou and Miao brocade from Danzhai. Colored brocade mostly uses a combination of open warp and broken weft or open weft and broken weft. Its weaving process is much more complicated than plain brocade, such as Yijin in Xingyi City in southwestern Guizhou and Miao brocade in Taijiang area in southeastern Guizhou. Guizhou ethnic brocades mostly have geometric patterns, and their materials are mainly derived from natural birds, animals, flowers, birds, insects, and fish that are familiar to people of all ethnic groups in their working lives. In terms of the modeling of brocade patterns, ethnic minority women are all skillful experts in selecting, weaving, weaving and embroidering, and they are unique in pattern modeling. According to the laws of the warp and weft structure of the fabric and the aesthetic habits of the nation, they relied on their intuitive feelings for natural objects and rich imagination to highly refine, summarize, deform and exaggerate the required accessories, thus producing their own unique simplicity and elegance ethnic patterns. The colors used are mostly warm and not restricted by natural colors. Emphasis is placed on contrast, vividness and brightness to achieve a colorful, gaudy and elegant effect. The colorful brocade of Miao brocade is popular in the Qingshui River area, and its representative work is the "red apron" that Miao women wear in front of their pleated skirts when they dress up. It is the pearl of ancient Miao brocade and can be called the "king of colorful brocades". Miao girls learn to weave flowers when they are seven or eight years old, start picking and weaving when they are 12 or 13 years old, and do not basically learn how to weave red aprons until they are 15 or 16 years old. It is the fruit of the efforts of the intelligent Miao girls. It is a precious fabric that they use to display their skills, find a mate, place their trust in their lives and look forward to the future. Miao women's costumes are indispensable for two things: first, the whole body of silver ornaments, which is an expression of preciousness and wealth; and second, the brocade costumes that are intertwined with the girls' talents in picking, weaving, weaving, and embroidering. This is mainly the sleeve flowers on tops and the waist flowers on bottoms. The apron flowers are colorful and eye-catching from a distance, and the dragons and birds are dancing up close, and the flowers are in clusters. Compared with the sleeve flowers, it is particularly eye-catching. Therefore, it is a rare treasure for girls to compare their skill and beauty when "traveling", "playing drums" and "eating sisters' rice". Strange Stones Guizhou's unique geological structure and landform environment have created extremely rich resources for ornamental strange stones. There are Guizhou green stones, Panjiang stones, Wujiang stones, Hongshui river stones, and natural Chinese painting stones that are famous at home and abroad; there are unparalleled Guizhou dragon and other vertebrate fossils; and there are "Rose of the Plateau" quartz crystal clusters that have won Guizhou honor. Guizhou's ornamental stones are diverse and colorful, accounting for about a quarter of the country's ornamental stones. Guiyang has gathered the essence of these ornamental stones. Currently, there are exhibition halls in Cuiwei Garden, Yangming Temple and other places in the city. (Just choose one)