Dabujiang quilting art originated in the Han Dynasty, popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic period, is a popular primitive ecological plastic art. And the modern Dabujiang quilting embroidery uses other art styles for reference and adopts modern art design concept to join modern life elements on the basis of the traditional expression technique, with high artistic value, which was included in the 2nd batch of intangible cultural heritage protection directory in Chenzhou.

The quilting art is not an isolated art form, but it is closely linked to people's life and attracts people with its unique charm and pure emotion. The quilting art mainly uses the ancient antique rags and old clothes to make a variety of daily necessities with wide range of forms and application in folk, such as the baby supplies: bibs, cool hats, baby bjorns and bellybands.

Dabujiang quilting embroidery is a typical faction of Xiangnan quilting art with a long history and wide influence. It especially has unique technique and composition with rich regional characteristics and widely spread in Yongxing, Zixing, Anren, Guidong, Rucheng and other rural areas more than 30 years ago. But later, with the reform and opening up and people's ideological changes, this ancient art gradually faded out of people's lives and even endangered.

The inheritors of Dabujiang quilting art He Juan loved her grandmother's quilting embroidery in her childhood and came back to hometown after working outside for a few years. He Juan not only learned the basic techniques of quilting embroidery with her grandmother, but joined more colorful elements and images of modern life to show the ideas and design in her works. She inherited the traditional performance techniques and drew lessons from other forms of artistic expression with the design ideas of modern art, colorful elements and images and high-grade fabrics and embroidery thread to break through traditional application fields and make the ancient cultural heritage unique.

In 2008, she began to develop, sort and create the quilting embroidery products and established the Juanjuan Quilts Art Workshop in 2011, which attracted the attention of the cultural media of Hunan University. Dabujiang quilting embroidery was initially listed as the cultural industry research and development project of Hunan University.