Zhuang nationality. Hydrangea, usually made of colored embroidery, is a common mascot of China people, especially Zhuang people.

2. Guangxi Baise Jingxi hydrangea culture

There is a beautiful legend about hydrangea in Zhuangxiang. It is said that more than 800 years ago, a poor family lived in a small village under the ancient town of Jiuzhou in Jingxi County. My poor son Adi fell in love with Axiu, a girl from the next village. Beautiful and kind, Axiu deeply loves honest, hardworking and brave Adi.

One spring, Axiu was attracted by a rich and powerful female student in the town in the market. He wants to marry Axiu. Axiu firmly refused with death threats. When the female students learned that Axiu loved Adi in the neighboring village deeply, they rolled their eyes and came up with a plan to make Axiu give up. He bribed the government, put Adi in a dungeon, accused him of fabricating facts, sentenced him to death, and waited for punishment in autumn. After hearing the news, Axiu seemed to be a bolt from the blue. He stayed in Lacrimosa all day, crying his eyes out. After Axiu cried blind, Axiu started sewing hydrangeas for Adi, who will be beheaded in autumn. The needle pierced my hand and blood flowed on the hydrangea. After soaking in blood, the flowers on hydrangea become brighter, the leaves are greener and the birds are brighter. After 998 1 day, hydrangea was full of Axiu's deep love for Adi, and Axiu's blood was used up.

When Axiu sold his jewelry, bribed the jailer and, accompanied by his family, touched Adi, who was skinny and tortured to death in a dark and humid dungeon, Axiu was desperate and groped for a hydrangea to put around Adi's neck. At this moment, I saw a flash of light. Axiu, Adi and their families drifted to the foot of a beautiful and rich mountain, away from the devil.

Later, Axiu and Adi got married, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and lived a happy life with their hardworking hands. Through word of mouth, hydrangea has gradually become the mascot of Zhuang people and the token of love between young men and women of Zhuang nationality, so there are folk activities such as lion throwing hydrangea and rolling hydrangea.

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3. Where is Xiuqiu Street in Jingxi?

Go to some towns and villages to buy! They are all handmade ~ family workshops ~ which can help villagers and enjoy sightseeing ~ how nice! Ah ~ ~ How do you know if you have any I haven't been to? There are many Zhuang townships around Nanning ~ Laiyang headlines.

As long as there are Wuming and Jingxi in Zhuangxiang (Jingxi is famous for its hydrangea, which was once sent outside for festivals, it is a little far from your problem, but it is not far by car! Baise) and other places ~ ~ If you are in a hurry, you can only buy it at trade factories and shopping malls! Those who want to see handicrafts can go there to learn about Laiyang headlines.

4. Why is Jingxi Hydrangea City not open for a long time?

First, make a cloth shell-stick four layers of cotton cloth together with paste, then stick silk fabrics of various colors on the base cloth and press it into a flat and solid cloth shell; Then, the leaves will be fine. Generally speaking, regardless of the size, the leaves of Jingxi hydrangea are 12 pieces and one ball.

Second, embroider leaves.

This step is more important. Generally, the smaller the hydrangea pattern, the simpler it is, and the larger the hydrangea pattern, the more complex and vivid it is.

According to legend, there is a saying that except for the middle four petals, the other four petals must be birds, and the lower four petals must be animals.

For the hydrangea pattern with a diameter less than 6cm, every woman in the old street can basically draw it herself.

But if the diameter is more than 8cm, such as 12cm, 20cm or even 1m or 2m, what patterns should be embroidered and how to match the colors on the patterns are all drawn by people who are good at painting, and then copied by others.

Thirdly, the triangular spindle-shaped spherical valve body is made.

In the past, the fillings in hydrangea were mostly mung beans, corn, cottonseed or chaff, which made hydrangea have a certain weight and were suitable for throwing. At the same time, it is also a metaphor to throw the seeds of friendship and love to each other, or to show that love is as long as green beans.

I don't know when the hydrangeas in the ancient streets of Guzhou are all old cotton. Later, because it was unsanitary and easy to get wet, it was filled with sawdust that was not easy to absorb water.

5. Jingxi, Guangxi, the hometown of hydrangea

The first step is to make a cloth shell-four layers of cotton cloth are evenly bonded together with paste, and then silk fabrics of various colors are bonded to the base cloth to form a flat and solid cloth shell; Then, the leaves will be fine. Generally speaking, regardless of the size, the leaves of Jingxi hydrangea are 12 pieces and one ball.

Second, embroider leaves. This step is the most important. Generally, the smaller the hydrangea pattern, the simpler it is, and the larger the hydrangea pattern, the more complex and vivid it is. According to legend, there is a saying that except for the middle four petals, the other four petals must be birds, and the lower four petals must be animals. For the hydrangea pattern with a diameter less than 6cm, every woman in the old street can basically draw it herself. But if the diameter is more than 8cm, such as 12cm, 20cm or even 1m or 2m, what patterns should be embroidered and how to match the colors on the patterns are all drawn by people who are good at painting, and then copied by others.

Thirdly, the triangular spindle-shaped spherical valve body is made. In the past, the fillings in hydrangea were mostly mung beans, corn, cottonseed or chaff, which made hydrangea have a certain weight and were suitable for throwing. At the same time, it is also a metaphor to throw the seeds of friendship and love to each other, or to show that love is as long as green beans. I don't know when the hydrangeas in the ancient streets of Guzhou are all old cotton. Later, because it was unsanitary and easy to get wet, it was filled with sawdust that was not easy to absorb water.

In the last step, the concentrated triangular shuttle valve body is made into a ball by end-to-end sewing, and then decorated with small ornaments such as beads and ribbons to make a delicate hydrangea.

Made of silk or cloth, 5~6 cm in diameter, filled with fine sand and stones, weighing 150 g, the ball is tied with a rope 90 cm long. Tie three pieces of cloth with a length of 4 cm and a width of 0.5 cm at the end of the rope, and sew five pieces of cloth with a length of 5 cm and a width of 0.5 cm on the lower part of the ball as a ball nail, thus making a hydrangea for competition. Three hydrangeas with five different colors should be prepared during the competition.

This hydrangea is divided into two layers. The first layer is 18mm white beads: one circle of five beads, two circles of six beads, three circles of six beads, and four circles of six, five, six, five, six, five, six, six and six beads for each flower. You can learn from the practice of gourd bottom. On the basis of the first layer, the second layer is decorated with silver beads after changing the color beads.

6. Hydrangea in Jiuzhou, Jingxi, Guangxi

Hydrangea is the biggest and shortest, and men and women love each other.

On New Year's Day, centenarians can collect firewood.

A straw hat covers the ground and grows rice outside.

It's not called the South China Sea, it's called the North Sea, and the mangroves by the sea are pregnant.

Elephant trunk drinks mountain scenery, and rice noodles eat three major pies.

Zongba is as big as a pig, and stones are sold as treasures.

The gift shop sells coffins and kicks them all over the street.

The mountains are in the city, the buildings are outside the city, and the tiankeng in Leye County is in droves.

Millennium bronze drums are unbreakable, and Huashan murals are hard to guess.

Finally, the eighteen eccentrics were tried in Guangxi.

0 1. The pony with the largest hydrangea and the shortest hydrangea is very famous in Jingxi and Debao Old State of Guangxi. Hydrangea is the favorite and mascot of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi, with a history of more than 700 years. The hydrangeas produced in Jingxian County are handmade, exquisite and colorful because of their unique structure and exquisite materials. They are the best of Guangxi hydrangea. Jingxian once made an oversized hydrangea (1.2m) for the collection of the National Museum of Nationalities in Japan, and later made an oversized hydrangea (1.97m, 2m) specially for the return of Hong Kong and Macao. Debao pony is a rare thoroughbred horse in China and the shortest horse in the world. Debao ponies are mainly produced in Debao, Jingxi and other counties in Guangxi. Its height is below 106cm, and the shortest is only 85cm, which is even shorter than the world-famous British chasing horse. During 1989, Debao Pony appeared at the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Beijing, which aroused great interest from Chinese and foreign audiences.

[02. Men and women love to sing in Guangxi, which is known as the ocean of songs. The song festival on the third day of the third lunar month is a grand festival.

[03. Grasshopper Day]; In the new year]; Grasshopper is Zhuang language, that is, frog, and grasshopper totem is one of the totems worshipped by Zhuang people. Zhuang is a rice-growing nation, and regards frogs as the protector of Raytheon, who came to earth to control rainwater. Frogs croak and it's raining. In Donglan, Bama, Tiane, Fengshan and other places, the Horse Monster Festival is still held every year from the first day of the first month to the 25th day of the first month, offering sacrifices to frogs and praying for rain. Grasshopper worship has strong cultural characteristics of rice cultivation.

[04. Centenarians can chop wood. The number of centenarians in Bama, Guangxi now ranks first among the five longevity areas in the world. In 2000, in the fifth national census, there were 74 centenarians in Bama, accounting for 3. 1 of the American population in this county. Chinese and foreign researchers have found that there are four main factors for the longevity of Bama people in China: first, there is a special natural environment; Second, food with unique longevity effect; Third, the elderly insist on long-term productive labor; Fourth, the law of daily life, optimistic and cheerful personality.

[05. There is a story about straw hat covering the land, which is widely circulated in Guangxi. A farmer went up the mountain to farm. When he finished his work, he habitually calculated his plot, but no matter how many plots were lost. Finally, when he picked up the straw hat and was ready to leave, he suddenly found that the straw hat was covered with his lost plot. Guangxi karst landform covers a total area of 89,500 square kilometers. Industrious mountain people cultivate small fields in the mountains according to local conditions. The folk proverb that has been circulating for decades, a spoon, a bowl and a straw hat, does it vividly say that eight mountains and one water divide the field?

[06. Rice grows in the sky] If a straw hat covers the ground, it mainly reflects the poor living conditions in Dashi Mountain area of Guangxi, then the terraced field culture represented by Longsheng Longji Terrace and Jinkeng Terrace reflects the spiritual outlook of the people in Guangxi for land. Longji Terrace Terrace is adjacent to Jinkeng Terrace, distributed between 300 meters and 1500 meters above sea level, winding from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Hills like snails, mountains like towers, layer upon layer, strewn at random. It is large in scale and imposing, and has the highest terrace in the world.

Tang is not called Nanhai Beihai. Geographically, Beihai is clearly in the south, but why is it called Beihai instead of Nanhai? There are different opinions about the origin of place names in Beihai, among which there are two representative views. First of all, fishermen lived in Nanwan more than 300 years ago, and with the passage of time, villages were formed. Because fishermen in Nanwan often sail to Beigang to take shelter from the wind, fishermen call the northern waters Beihai GT; Over time, Beihai is simply called Beihai. There is a local proverb that there is a South Bay in front of the North Sea. Secondly, Beihai is a Zhuang language. In the words of the indigenous Zhuang people here, Bei homophonic, Beihai means estuary, that is, estuary. Beihai is the remains of Zhuang language place names.

[08. Mangroves at the seaside The mangroves at the North Customs are national nature reserves with an area of 8,000 hectares. 1990 was established with the approval of the State Council, and its main protection object is mangrove ecosystem. The most surprising thing about mangrove is its unique viviparous reproduction. Seeds can germinate in the fruit of trees, grow into seedlings, and then leave the mother plant and fall into the soil to develop and grow. Even if the seedlings fall into the sea and are washed away by the waves, they can drift with the tide and survive for months. When they encounter sediments, they can take root and sprout in a few hours.

09. Elephant trunk hill stands at the intersection of taohuajiang and Lijiang River. It looks like an elephant, with its long nose stuck in the rushing river. According to legend, this is the elephant that the Jade Emperor rode. The Jade Emperor was followed and threw a sword on the elephant's back, because he didn't want to return to heaven without me. The elephant died, but it became a rocky mountain. The hilt on its back turned into a vase tower, leaving the elephant on the Lijiang River forever. Xiangshan has n

[10. Eat three pies for rice noodles. Guangxi people have a soft spot for rice noodles. They not only love to eat, but also have a unique rice noodle culture. Nanning Guilin old friend flour horse meat rice flour and Liuzhou snail powder are also called the three famous powders in Guangxi.

[1 1. Zong Ba is as big as a pig. The American minorities in Guangxi make zongzi in China for the Spring Festival, and it is bigger than that in other places, which surprises foreigners. This kind of jiaozi is called a pillow, which was born and raised in jiaozi. As big as a pig, a family can eat for several days. The enchanter is an extra-large zongzi. On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, the woman first soaked the glutinous rice in water, soaked it overnight, dripped it dry, mixed it with salt, pepper, ginger and other seasonings, and used Ye Luo. Some have green beans in the middle, some are stuffed with bacon and fresh pork, which are shaped like bamboo tubes and some are square. This kind of zongzi is a food for family reunion in festivals and a gift for relatives and friends.

[12. Sell stones as treasures. The peculiar karst landform has created the strange mountains and strange waters in Liuzhou. Thanks to this blessing, there are many kinds of strange stones produced in Liuzhou area with high quality. There are nine categories, fifty or sixty varieties. They are called Liuzhou Stone, which is the best in the world. Stone-playing art has become a social and cultural phenomenon deeply loved by Liuzhou citizens, which not only attracts many stone-playing people, but also forms a large-scale stone-playing industry.

[13. Gift shop sells coffins] There is a popular proverb in China, who was born in Suzhou, grew up in Hangzhou, ate in Guangzhou and died in Liuzhou. The death of Liuzhou means that Liuzhou coffins are of high quality and well-known throughout the country. It is enough to have a pair when you die. Now people are not interested in burial, and the longevity board industry in Liuzhou is not what it used to be. However, Liuzhou coffin is still very popular as a handicraft, and its size has become smaller. Some people buy it as a decoration at home and like its homophonic sound to make a fortune. It is called longevity coffin, mostly made of precious wood such as camphor, cedar, cedar and so on. There are mainly three patterns: Baishou, Baifu and Jiulong.

[14. The streets are full of kicking people] Motorcycles, commonly known as kicking people, are widely used in urban and rural areas of Guangxi and are deeply loved by the masses. According to statistics, Nanning has a motorcycle for every 2.5 people, the density is much higher than other cities, and there is a unique motorcycle lane in the country, which is a veritable city for riding motorcycles.

[15. The mountain is in the city and the building is outside the city]; The mountain is in the city, and the building on the side of the mountain is the characteristic of many cities in Guangxi. The beautiful peaks of Qishan stand shoulder to shoulder with buildings and overpasses, and the natural landscape and urban civilization are so skillfully integrated. My home is in the scenic spot, which is something that local residents are proud of. The natural landscape represented by Guilin landscape is known as a world-class tourism treasure. In order to protect the natural landscape, there are few new tall buildings in Guilin.

[16. Tiankeng in Leye County was placed in groups]; Tiankeng is caused by the massive collapse of underground rivers in karst areas. The Tiankeng Group in Leye County, Guangxi is the largest known Tiankeng Group in the world at present. Twenty-eight Tiankeng Groups have been discovered in the county, covering almost all kinds of Tiankeng and cave landscapes, among which Dashiwei Tiankeng is the second largest in the world.

[17. Millennium bronze drums can be broken. Guangxi is the base camp of bronze drums, which not only has the largest bronze drums in the world, but also has the largest number and variety. Bronze drums symbolize authority and wealth among ethnic minorities in Guangxi. Surprisingly, many bronze drums are still used in folk festivals thousands of years later.

[18. Huashan murals are hard to guess. Huashan mural was painted by the ancestors of Zhuang nationality on the cliffs of Zuojiang River basin. There are more than 1900 people with different expressions and a history of more than 2,000 years. The wide distribution of mural paintings on mountain walls, the precipitous drawing location, the magnificent picture and the difficult drawing conditions are rare at home and abroad, but it is still a mystery whether our ancestors intended to draw this large-scale rock painting.

7. Method of making Guangxi Jingxi hydrangea

First, make a cloth shell-stick four L's on it.

According to legend, there is a saying that except for the middle four petals, the other four petals must be birds, and the lower four petals must be animals.

For the hydrangea pattern with a diameter less than 6cm, every woman in the old street can basically draw it herself.

For those with a diameter of more than 8cm, such as 12cm, 20cm or even 1m or 2m, what patterns should be embroidered and how to match the colors on the patterns are drawn by people who are good at painting, and then copied by others.

Thirdly, the triangular spindle-shaped spherical valve body is made.

In the past, the fillings in hydrangea were mostly mung beans, corn, cottonseed or chaff, which could make hydrangea have a certain weight and be suitable for throwing. At the same time, it is also a metaphor to throw the seeds of friendship and love to each other, or to show that love is as long as green beans.

I don't know when the hydrangeas in the ancient streets of Guzhou are all old cotton. Later, because it was unsanitary and easy to get wet, it was filled with sawdust that was not easy to absorb water.

In the latter process, the tip of the concentrated triangular shuttle valve body is sewn into a ball, and then decorated with small ornaments such as beads and ribbons to make a delicate hydrangea.

8. The real picture of Jingxi Hydrangea City

Jiuzhou, formerly known as Naqian, is located 9 kilometers south of Jingxi County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. With a long history, picturesque scenery and strong Zhuang customs, it is known as the Zhuanghuo Museum. Zhuang nationality has a long history of making hydrangea. Jiuzhou hydrangea is the superior product of Guangxi hydrangea because of its unique structure, exquisite materials, handmade, small size and bright colors.

The past life of hydrangea

As soon as we set foot on Hydrangea Street, a stone road in the old state, we strongly felt the unique ethnic customs of this street built by the river: stone floors, big blue brick walls, thick reddish-brown wooden doors, and women sitting in front of ancient houses sewing hydrangeas. The wooden table in front of them is covered with bright strips of cloth, ribbons and silk threads. On the homemade wooden frame, red, yellow, blue and green hydrangeas are tied under the red ribbon, big or small, colorful, making the mottled old street bright.

The history of hydrangea can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago. At that time, it was an ancient musical instrument made of bronze-; Feituo is mainly used for fighting and hunting. Later, Feituo gradually developed into the present embroidered cloth bag, that is, hydrangea. Hydrangea, as a token of love, has been loved by young men and women for nearly a thousand years. On traditional festivals such as Spring Festival, March 3rd and Mid-Autumn Festival, young men and women of Zhuang nationality are invited to get together on the grass beach near the village and the river. Men and women separate, sing to each other and express their feelings. Then the woman threw the hydrangea to the right person. If you are two of the same kind, you can start a new life.

With the changes of the times, the hydrangea, once a love affair for Zhuang men and women, has evolved into a mascot for giving gifts to relatives and friends and conveying feelings. Now in the old state, from seven or eight-year-old girls to sixty or seventy-year-old ladies, they all wear needles to play hydrangea, and almost every household does hydrangea business. Jiuzhou hydrangea can be divided into two kinds according to embroidery methods: generally, hydrangea is single-thread embroidery, and all kinds of patterns embroidered on petal fabric are flat, with picturesque lines and colors, and the embroidery method and technology are relatively simple; And the multi-thread embroidery of velvet embroidery and hydrangea has more delicate and complicated graphics, and the things outlined are vivid and three-dimensional. Creatures should be ejected, and hydrangeas are the best.

The practice of Jiuzhou hydrangea is extremely particular. Not only are they all handmade, but the technological process is also quite rigorous and exquisite.

First, make a cloth shell-stick four layers of cotton cloth together evenly, and then stick silk fabrics of various colors on the base cloth to form a flat and solid cloth shell; Then, the leaves will be fine. Generally speaking, regardless of the size, the leaves of Jingxi hydrangea are 12 pieces and one ball.

Second, embroider leaves. This step is the most important. Generally, the smaller the hydrangea pattern, the simpler it is, and the larger the hydrangea pattern, the more complex and vivid it is. According to legend, there is a saying that except for the middle four petals, the other four petals must be birds, and the lower four petals must be animals. For the hydrangea pattern with a diameter less than 6cm, every woman in the old street can basically draw it herself. For those with a diameter of more than 8cm, such as 12cm, 20cm or even 1m or 2m, what patterns should be embroidered and how to match the colors on the patterns are drawn by people who are good at painting, and then copied by others.

Thirdly, the triangular spindle-shaped spherical valve body is made. In the past, the fillings in hydrangea were mostly mung beans, corn, cottonseed or chaff, which could make hydrangea have a certain weight and be suitable for throwing. At the same time, it is also a metaphor to throw the seeds of friendship and love to each other, or to show that love is as long as green beans. I don't know when the hydrangeas in the ancient streets of Guzhou are all old cotton. Later, because it was unsanitary and easy to get wet, it was filled with sawdust that was not easy to absorb water.

In the last step, the concentrated triangular shuttle valve body is made into a ball by end-to-end sewing, and then decorated with small ornaments such as beads and ribbons to make a delicate hydrangea.