Ruyuan Yao embroidery is based on black, blue and white cloth and embroidered in five colors: red, green, yellow, black and white. It is widely used for the decoration of clothes, headscarves, aprons, corner hats, children's hats, foot-binding, satchels and umbrellas. Almost from head to toe, the local Yao people dress themselves up with colorful embroidery colors.
The embroidery skills of Ruyuan Yao nationality are unique, and there is no need to draw a manuscript when embroidery. According to different cloth colors, the lines of squares are embroidered with black lines or white lines, and then various figures are embroidered in the squares. What is particularly wonderful is that you can embroider from the back without looking at the front, but you can form different patterns such as triangle, tooth shape and castellation on the front, combine them to form a pattern, and then combine them to form a complete decorative pattern on various articles.
Ruyuan Yao embroidery has unified patterns, peculiar shapes, complex structures and diverse styles. Its lines must be oblique lines, vertical lines and parallel lines without arcs, and the patterns and TINT are different, but the basic form is stereotyped, and the Yaos crossing the mountain around the world are basically the same, showing geometric and stylized characteristics; Its modeling is abstract, with various forms and techniques such as deformation, exaggeration, symbol and metaphor. Its patterns such as big lotus flowers and octagonal flowers are complex, and even have medium-sized composite compositions and various combinations; Its patterns include men and women, bergamot, Tang seal, figure, dragon body, animal hoof, deer, spider, fishbone, sawtooth, broken flower, single stamen, combined stamen, big stamen, phoenix tree flower, lotus tail flower, impatiens, pine cone, star anise and tofu lattice.
These exotic Gu Zhuo and classic patterns record the survival and development history, belief worship, traditional culture and art, and thinking concept of the Yao people, and are the symbols and symbols of the Yao people's national identity over the mountains, which are of multidisciplinary research value. With the change of social life and the popularity of fashion clothes.
Yao's traditional costumes and even living customs are quietly changing. Because many Yao girls go out to work, girls at school are overworked, and the habit of embroidery is gradually fading. Ruyuan Yao embroidery is facing the dilemma of lack of successors and skills on the verge of extinction, and effective measures are urgently needed to protect it ~