Shu embroidery

Last winter, this sow gave birth to [-] litters at once, and when they were fed for two months, none of them wasted, and they looked so strong and loved to eat every time.

Grandma was reluctant to sell it, so she proposed to keep the whole litter of piglets and raise them at home.

There are not so many pigsty. I heard that grandpa and dad cut down some trees and bamboo and built a temporary pigsty by themselves.

After finally surviving the beginning of spring, the pig food has become more abundant. Seeing these piglets grow better one by one, grandma feels very happy even though it is hard work.

Every time Shen Chuqing called grandma, what grandma talked about the most was the dozen or so pigs she raised with her own hands.

I also hope that during the Chinese New Year, all these pigs will be ready for slaughter, and the money from the sale will be used to buy some beautiful new clothes for Shen Chuqing and the two sisters!
This is the painstaking effort of the two old men who have been busy for more than half a year, but because of the compensation, they have to reluctantly part with each other and put these piglets out of the slaughterhouse ahead of schedule.

Shen Chuqing has always known that no matter how old her grandparents are, they will always be the strongest backup force in the family.

They will always stand up when the family needs it most, try their best to help, and usually stay in this old house, never disturbing the life of their family.

"I'm sorry." Shen Chuqing looked at the old house that looked a little old, thinking that the whole family was looking forward to a graduate student in the house, but she chose another path to go.

Wiping some tears from her eyes, Shen Chuqing secretly made a decision in her heart, she will definitely redouble her efforts to achieve a more successful career than graduate school.

When I got home, I began to collect some information about embroidery on the Internet. I wanted to have an understanding of the market environment in the past two years to prove that my choice was correct.

But when she turned on the computer, she didn't know if the browser did it on purpose, but it pushed her an article about the difficulty of survival in modern embroidery.

It fully lists the achievements and progress made by the four famous domestic embroideries in the past ten years.

What surprised Shen Chuqing the most was that this article also listed the differences in embroidery prices in the past ten years.

Most of the high-end embroidery works are from the hands of those famous masters, and the output is not very high. Some embroiderers only produce a work in three or two years, but almost all of them are customized at a high price.

There are quite a few middle-end embroidery works, most of which are made by the apprentices of these masters, but because of the relatively high price, they are not very popular with consumers.

Especially in recent years, with the rise of machine embroidery, the embroidery of the same length may take a lot of time manually, but for machines, it may be completed in three to five days or even less.

Shen Chuqing visited a machine embroidery factory last year. A [-]-inch piece of panda embroidery can be completed in two hours. However, if you let yourself embroider by hand, it is impossible to do it in less than a month. Well, you have to do nothing but embroider.

Because of the relatively low cost, the price of machine embroidery is much cheaper than that of hand embroidery. For many people who like embroidery patterns, as long as the embroidery looks good and the price is acceptable, it must be the best choice.

It is precisely because of this reason that there are fewer and fewer young people who are willing to learn embroidery. Let alone the time spent and stable income, no one can guarantee that they will become masters in the future. The craft of this trade is no longer of interest.

Another point is that senior embroidery masters will not recruit apprentices casually. The threshold for recruiting apprentices is particularly high. Not only does it require a foundation in art and embroidery, but there are also requirements on age.

This has also caused some people who want to learn embroidery, but can't get in at all. Some people who can afford it are naturally unwilling to spend a few years learning a skill with no prospect.

As the older generation of embroiderers are getting older, the entire embroidery industry is in a state of inadequacy.

Some people guard their skills and are unwilling to pass them on to outsiders, but they can't find suitable successors at home, so they can only watch this skill being lost in the end.

Embroidery is not a single needlework. It not only contains many different stitches, but also has many major factions.

The most famous ones are Su embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Yue embroidery, and Shu embroidery, which are divided into four schools based on regions. There are also many unique local embroidery, such as ethnic minority embroidery such as Miao embroidery.

Some people spend their entire lives studying a stitch method, such as the overlapping embroidery method of Shu embroidery. On the surface, it is just a technique, but in fact it has a history of more than 100 years. During these 100 years, countless kinds have evolved. All kinds of stitches add a lot of splendor to Shu embroidery.

But at the same time, some of the earliest acupuncture methods have also disappeared into the ocean of history due to technical inheritance, and only occasionally inferred from the masterpieces of some predecessors for research.

Shen Chuqing looked at the viewpoints stated above, which were similar to what she understood at the moment. She slid the mouse in her hand and continued to browse below.

At the end, the author of the article also specially introduced some low-end embroidery works. Most of this piece is small items, such as purses, safety charms, handkerchiefs and other small things, not very particular about technical content , and can be produced in large quantities, as long as the shape is unique and the design is exquisite, it can be loved by major tourist attractions and even small commodity markets.

Shen Chuqing is familiar with this. She was able to complete purse embroidery independently at the age of eight or nine. That's because Shen's mother relied on such small embroidery money to subsidize the family, and Shen Chuqing followed her to learn in her free time.

During the summer vacation at that time, with a fan and a dustpan basket, the whole family sat together, and Shen's father and Shen Chuxue used the soles of Jiefang shoes to remove corn kernels.

Shen Chuqing embroidered purses and handkerchiefs with Shen's mother, and Shen's mother happily paid her a salary. She could get one yuan for each embroidery, and after a holiday, Shen Chuqing could save at least thirty or so yuan in her hands when school started. .

During the winter vacation, the electric fan was replaced by a fire, and Shen's father and Shen Chuxue also changed from peeling corn kernels to peeling peanuts. The family gathered together in a room, and they were very happy.

In fact, most families in Qingtian Town live like this, especially people of the two age groups like Shen’s mother and grandma, they have traditional female red embroidery skills, and they will pick up some of these in their free time. The small work of embroidery is done to keep my hands from being idle, and at the same time, I can earn some money to subsidize my family.