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Selected time: In 2009, the "Beijing Velvet (Veltin)" was selected into the Beijing -level intangible cultural heritage project.

Features: Beijing velvet (velvet) is actually a concept. It is mainly based on velvet flowers. The production of Beijing velvet (velvet) began in the early Qing Dynasty. It was used as the iconic material, and the bronze wire was used as a skeleton. The more prominent feature is the plush. For more than 300 years of history, it has gradually formed its own unique artistic style in the development process.

01 History Revolution

Speaking of Beijing velvet flowers, it is about to go back to the Ming Dynasty. There are clear records in the Minghui Code -188 crafts and 1,1800 artisans. The velvet craftsmanship formed an industry in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was developed in the Qing Dynasty to its heyday. During the Kangxi and Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Beijing Banner Women's wearing flowers became winds. It was very popular to wear velvet flowers for a while to take the meaning of "Ronghua". At that time, the flower market area was full of booths to sell flowers every day to form a scene, and it was even more popular during the festival.

In ancient China, people like to wear flowers on their heads, and can be found in many historical books, cultural relics and paintings. Each lady in the Tang Dynasty's "Lady Lady Lady" was treated with flowers on the hair buns. When the flowers were withered in winter, the ancients would choose velvet flowers to wear. The character in the "Twelve Beauty Maps" collected in the Forbidden City is made of chrysanthemum or peony flowers.

02 Production process

Beijing velvet (velvet) uses copper wire for skeleton, which requires more than a dozen or even dozens of procedures to complete. The main processes include cooking, coloring, banging, pumping, smoked, tetris, cutting, chopping, velvet, brake, ironing, assembly and other complex processes.

High -quality raw silk must be used after cooking, dyeing, and banging. Then, according to the requirements of the work, select the silk that needed the color to put on the silk. For example, to make a parrot wings containing red, yellow and blue three colors, choose a silk with three colors of red, yellow and blue, and place them together. The small bumps inside, and finally brushed the silk with the brush to make them straight and smooth. After the silk is sorted out, gently pick up with the stick from the middle, trim the silk hanging on both sides, place it on the tilted plate and tighten the silk. After the silk, the silk that was still wrinkled just now became shiny and smooth, tightly arranged. Looking at it from a distance, it was like a piece of canvas covered with red, yellow and blue.

Among them, the production of puffed strips is the biggest difficulty. It not only requires the strength of the fingers, but also needs to grind the cocoon to make it easy to make. The velvet is like a brick tile of the building. The handicrafts think about and produce the various velvet strips they need. The "assembly" later looks easy and interesting.

03 Innovation Development

At the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, the velvet flowers in the old Beijing inherited for more than 300 years appeared on the hat of Miss Etiquette. Chu Yan, a designer of the Beijing Winter Olympics awarding etiquette "Tanghua Feixue" designer: "Ice and Snow Sports must reflect a certain degree of warmth, which not only refers to the body's temperature, but also wants to express a kind of temperature in Chinese culture "I hope that through this decorative hat, I will bring a finishing touch to the whole shape of the awards etiquette.

The design of the Beijing Winter Olympics needs to be more modern and more youthful. Therefore, the designer designed a few simple peony flowers through the shape of the peony petals, and expressed it through non -heritage handicrafts.

The decorative peony flower decoration on the female hat is taken from the peony flower shape of the Tang Dynasty in Dunhuang. According to the design of the "Tanghua Feixue" awards uniform, the brim of the lady's dress is decorated with two velvet flowers. Ahead; the other is round, fixed behind the hat.

"Tanghua" for the Beijing Winter Olympics

Under the tide of the era of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, Beijing velvet (velvet), this historic traditional folk craft, has once again paid attention to people, and realized cross -border cross -border with the current culture and fashion in various forms. Innovation, glowing with new glory.

The content of this article is based on online information such as Beijing Social Sciences, Beijing Evening News

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