On July 14, more than 90 overseas Chinese teenagers from 14 countries participated in the 2017 Hunan overseas Chinese teenager summer camp and experienced the Dabujiang quilting embroidery in Chenzhou.
At the fields, the inheritor of Dabujiang quilting embroidery He Juan explained the history and production methods of the quilting embroidery for everyone.
Pieces of ordinary cloth were turned into the vivid animal fabric for a moment with He Juan's light hands. These rare works made the overseas Chinese teenagers amazing. They stared intently at every movement of He Juan and seriously learned to cut cloth and thread needles.
Dabujiang quilting embroidery is a popular primitive ecological plastic art in southern Hunan, which is in rags and old clothes everywhere as raw material and in black, white, blue, red and yellow as main colors. The inheritors combining with the unconstrained imagination elaborately produce the art works full of rich local flavor to convey the rich and colorful emotional world. And the modern Dabujiang quilting embroidery adheres to the traditional performance and adds the modern life elements and concepts to apply to the fashion and high-end hanging art, as well as other necessities of modern life, which was named top 10 of the most promising traditional skills projects in Hunan Province.
It was reported that as a pure public welfare summer camp, the organizers warmly welcomed the world Chinese teenagers to return to the motherland and experience the Chinese civilization and Chinese culture.
Children attentively listen the explanation on quilting embroidery.
The 8 year old child learns seriously.
The ethnic Chinese from France
Children and teachers take photos after the experience.
Professional embroidered mother team