Hainan Lijin: 3000 years of “living fossil” fashion appearance
On April 17, at the annual design week in Milan, the world’s fashion capital, the 3,000-year-old textile “living fossil” Li brocade from Hainan Island once again stunned the world’s fashion stage.
In a few days, the 2023 (3rd) Hainan Splendid World Culture Week, which will be held on April 27, will kick off in Haikou. The ancient Li Brocade has become a beautiful cultural business card of Hainan. It is reported that during the cultural week, a unique and charming Splendid cultural feast will be created through the opening ceremony of the intangible cultural heritage Splendid Fashion Show, thematic forums, and the intangible cultural heritage traditional weaving, embroidery, printing and dyeing technology project boutique exhibition.
A magnificent poem in the history of textiles
With a long history of three thousand years, Hainan Li Brocade is known as the “living fossil” of China’s textile industry and a magnificent poem in the history of Chinese textiles. In 2009, the traditional spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills of the Li people were listed among the first batch of “Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in Urgent Need of Protection” by UNESCO. As a precious world cultural heritage, Li brocade has become a world-renowned excellent Hainan specialty and an important symbol of Li culture.
Because the Li people do not have their own written language, the Li brocade pattern is a symbol of each dialect. In a sense, the Li brocade has become a unique history book that condenses the history and culture of the Li people. Li brocade spinning, dyeing, weaving and rusting techniques that have existed for three thousand years are also the embodiment of the value of science and technology, covering history, technology, art, folklore, geography, climate, anthropology, ethnology, folklore, culture and many other comprehensive aspects. information.
People can see in Li brocade that Li women use exaggerated and deformed geometric patterns and imaginative abstract art to create human-shaped patterns, natural patterns, animal patterns, plant patterns, production and life patterns, text patterns, etc. Among them, the dragon quilt is the brocade arts and crafts with the highest cultural taste and artistic value among Li brocades. It is one of the treasures paid tribute to the imperial court in the past dynasties and is favored and sought after by collectors at home and abroad.
Fashion items that frequently “break the circle”
“Li brocade has unique and exquisite craftsmanship, simple and elegant style, and rich cultural connotation. It is currently one of the most difficult and culturally graded artworks among textile handicrafts.” Tim Coty, representative of the Living Heritage Office of UNESCO Headquarters Si Zeng praised it. In 2019, the traditional spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills of the Li people entered the UNESCO headquarters, becoming the first intangible cultural heritage item in China and the second in the world to be exhibited at the UNESCO headquarters, allowing more people to see the fashionable beauty of ancient Li brocade , hundreds of domestic and foreign media rushed to report on it.
In order to create an internationally influential world brocade cultural exchange display platform and a window for Hainan Limiao brocade culture and Chinese brocade culture to go to the world, in November 2020, under the guidance of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Hainan The Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports and the Haikou Municipal People’s Government jointly hosted the 2020 (first) Hainan Splendid World Culture Week event, showing Hainan’s splendid Li brocade culture to the world through rich art performances and regional exhibitions.
The opening ceremony of the second Hainan Splendid World Culture Week to be held in 2022 was held outside the Dianyundong Library where Internet celebrities checked in in Haikou. The “Clothes and Quilts World” fashion show showcased the national Splendid fashion boutiques. At the same time, in Haikou The exhibition workshop held the first intangible cultural heritage traditional weaving, embroidery, printing and dyeing skills exhibition in 2022, which brought together the best brocades from all over the country and received high praise.
In order to make the ancient Li Brocade more suitable for today’s life, in recent years many professional companies and inheritors on the island have transformed Li Brocade into fashionable, trendy and youthful products, and launched a batch of beautiful and practical Li Brocade. Handbags, coin purses, bookmarks, table flags, improved Li brocade clothing, etc. These Li brocade cultural and creative products have become Hainan souvenirs with unique cultural characteristics.
“We will build the Li Brocade cultural and creative brand by holding cultural weeks and other theme activities and design competitions, support Li Brocade product development, production process innovation and packaging design, and support enterprises, inheritors and designers to apply for Li Brocade patterns. Innovative design patents can lead to an industrial path of harmonious development of tradition and fashion.” said the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Tourism and Culture.
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