Besides being good at embroidery, she is also good at painting and learning western painting. After graduating from the painting class of Changzhou Women's Normal School at the age of 20, the painter Lv Fengzi hired her to be a painting and embroidery teacher at Danyang Zheng Zheng Women's Middle School.
1933, when Yang Shouyu embroidered two works with western paintings as the embroidery manuscript, he combined the traditional embroidery method of "arranging stitches and tightly connecting lines" with the brush strokes and perspective principle of western paintings, and created the techniques of crossing straight and horizontal oblique lines with different lengths and mixing colors layer by layer. This cross stitch embroidery method is called random stitch embroidery.
At first, she tried to embroider the old man's head, the little girl and other works with watercolor painting, and named them "Yang embroidery", and later renamed it "Zheng embroidery", also known as embroidery.
Since then, random needle embroidery as an innovative variety has been gradually loved and accepted by people.
After 1980s, Yang Shouyu disciple Hendrick Chin Assen applied for the national intangible cultural heritage on the basis of inheriting Yang Shouyu's needlework, which was listed as one of the three treasures in Changzhou and displayed in Changzhou Museum.
origin
For more than 80 years, the disorderly needle embroidery has been "hidden in the boudoir", and our understanding of it in Changzhou alone is very limited.
In the past, random needle embroidery was only a gift given by * * *, which was used for gift exchange between countries and was difficult to find in the market. Coupled with the high price and no successor, this peerless skill is only in the hands of a few people, and it is even more difficult to occupy the market.
However, this situation has improved. In order to promote this artistic treasure, Ms. Di Jing, former president of Changzhou Institute of Arts and Crafts, opened the first market-oriented sewing studio in Changzhou in Damiaolong. After more than three years of development, it has gradually become familiar to the public and has gradually introduced many works for the public.
Moreover, the artistic collection value of random needle embroidery is becoming more and more obvious. After special treatment and embroidery, silk thread can be preserved in a frame, which can be preserved for hundreds of years without decay or fading. Some people even use embroidery instead of wedding photos as a witness of happiness, which is a great innovation.
Random stitch embroidery originated from Suzhou embroidery, and surpassed Suzhou embroidery. It is unique and is known as the fifth famous embroidery in China today! Its method has changed the previous method of "closely connecting its needles and arranging its lines" in Suzhou embroidery, but it is chaotic but not miscellaneous, dense and not overlapping, and there are thousands of techniques, which are applied to different forms of expression, with strong three-dimensional sense, quite vivid and the effect of western oil painting! The founder, Ms. Yang Shouyu, worked hard all her life to form this wonderful work of art, leaving an eternal name in the Chinese embroidery industry, which is also the pride of our Changzhou people! However, regarding the origin of random needle embroidery, later generations definitely said that if there were no sad century mourning of Ms. Yang Shouyu and her cousin Liu Haisu, there would not necessarily be the invention of random needle embroidery!