Zhuang Brocade壯錦

Recently， I saw a Zhuang brocade inheritor onsocial media. She said that many foreigners were sosurprised at its beauty. They believed that even theinternational top brands could not compete.

I think I can give you an idea of it from its historyfirst. It’s one of the four famous Chinese brocades， alongwith Yun brocade（ 云錦）， Shu brocade（ 蜀錦）， Songbrocade（ 宋錦）. The history of Zhuang brocade can betraced back to the Song Dynasty. It’s used by Zhuangpeople in their daily life and is a witness（ 見證者） to the long history of Zhuangpeople. According to legend， even the fairies（ 仙女） in the east have borrowedZhuang brocade to learn embroidery（ 刺繡）.

As time goes by， Zhuang brocade continues to develop and more andmore people are getting to know it. The pattern of Zhuang Brocade changedfrom simple to complex， and the color changed from monochrome（ 單調的）to colorful. There are three kinds of patterns in Zhuang brocade. They are thecontinuous patterns based on geometric decoration（ 幾何圖形）， the compoundpattern with flowers as the theme， and the pattern with auspicious beasts（ 吉祥的寓意）as the theme. In total， there are more than 20 traditional patterns andmore than 80 new patterns.

Zhuang brocade expresses Zhuang people’s longing for a better life.However， such an ancient and complex craft is facing a crisis of inheritance （ 傳承危機）. The production of hand-made Zhuang brocade takes a long time， so itcan’t be used as a daily product. In addition， the production process of Zhuangbrocade is complex and requires special machines. As a result， Zhuang brocade，which relies on oral inheritance（ 口頭傳承）， faces a lack of successors and weare worried about the future of this national treasure. Luckily， the government istrying its best to promote Zhuang brocade by issuing many preferential policies.The government and the public insist on combining mechanical brocade withhand-made brocade， and actively publicize it on social media to make Zhuangbrocade better and better.

I believe that through this article， more people can know about Zhuangbrocade， so that Zhuang brocade will be more dynamic and open to the world.