The Hometown Of Brocade In Longshan County, Xiangxi, Hunan Is Famous

Longshan County, Xiangxi County, Hunan Province, gave full play to the resource advantages of Tujia culture and created a nation The road to development and prosperity of characteristic cultural industry.

In recent years, Hunan Longshan County in western Hunan has given full play to the resource advantages of Tujia culture, and has embarked on a road to develop and become rich in cultural industries with national characteristics. At present, there are 1500 people engaged in the Tujia brocade industry in the county, with annual production of various brocade More than 300000 pieces, with an annual output value of more than 30 million yuan.

Longshan is one of the birthplaces of Tujia culture. Tujia brocade, which is called "Xilankapu" in local Tujia language, has a history of more than 3000 years and is one of the four famous brocades in China. In 2006, Tujia brocade technique was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list, and Longshan was also awarded as the hometown of Tujia brocade in China. The county's Tujia brocade work "Baling Scenic Spot - Yueyang Tower" was hung in the Hunan Hall of the Great Hall of the People.

Since ancient times, in the creation activities around clothing, food, housing and transportation, brocade making, which belongs to the handicraft production under the natural economic state, has played a very important role in the folk activities of housing, clothing, sacrifice and etiquette. It is also a kind of work of art that constantly improves, innovates and develops, and has a grand emotional color and personality style. Its development and change express a nation's most simple and pure pursuit of ideas, and also integrate a nation's unique temperament and long history. Today, the modern cultural industry has taken shape and become a new growth point of Longshan local economy. At present, Longshan has 22 national, provincial, prefecture and county representative inheritors of Tujia brocade.

In 2007, Longshan Tujia, the first brocade industry association in China Brocade industry The Association was established and formulated the specifications and technical quality standards of Tujia Brocade Industry Association, making Tujia Brocade Industry have "Longshan Standard". The county also included the training of Tujia brocade successor talents into the scope of farmers' vocational education, provided brocade skills training funds and established brocade skills training bases, and encouraged representative inheritors of Tujia brocade to set up skills training centers. The county has successively established 7 Tujia Brocade Craft Transmission Institutes and more than 40 Tujia Brocade Craft Workshops, which can train more than 700 students every year.

At the same time, Longshan Science and Technology Department sent special science and technology personnel to study new technologies, new processes and new forms of Tujia brocade, to inherit technology and art while injecting new elements. According to statistics, Longshan Tujia brocade has developed into more than 120 varieties of colorful artistic wall hangings, bedding, ethnic costumes, bags, shoes, curtains, carpets, cloth toys, etc., and 58 patents have been obtained.

The government of Longshan County integrates the scattered individual brocade households in the past, provides small loans, establishes companies, establishes Tujia brocade bases, forms economies of scale and characteristics, and products enter the markets of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Wuhan and other places, and are exported to Europe, America, Korea, Japan and other countries and regions.