Historical Development of Yangxin Cloth Paste

Yangxin Cloth Paste is made on a piece of backing cloth by cutting samples, collage, sewing, embroidery with shallow relief effect, originated in Yangxin Han Arts and Crafts. It has a history of more than 1,500 years, and has been called the "magical oriental unique artwork".

For a long time, Yangxin cloth stickers were hidden in the Han folk, until 1985 was discovered. Once introduced, Yangxin cloth stickers that with her unique artistic charm to impress the world.

In 1986, it made its debut in the Hubei Folk Art Exhibition.

In 1987, during the "First China Art Festival" in Beijing, the central media, such as People's Daily, Guangming Daily and China Culture News, highly evaluated the stickers.

In 1988, the English version of "Chinese Literature" for the first time disseminated the feature article and a set of color photos of Yangxin Cloth Paste to overseas.

Since 1989, Yangxin Cloth Paste has traveled across the ocean many times to exhibit in the former Soviet Union, Cyprus, Libya and other countries.

"The origin and evolution of Yangxin cloth stickers have not yet been tested in any text," said Yin Guanshan, curator of the Yangxin County Museum of Art. Yangxin was established in 201 B.C. When Yin investigated an old woman in her 80s, who was alive at the time, in 1985, according to the old man, Yin deduced in this regard that Yangxin cloth stickers had a history of at least 2,000 years.

Yangxin cloth sticker is the brunt of the original Chu culture style, persistence, simplicity, wild. Theme tradition, strong colors, childish shape, composition of romantic, especially her black paint like color effects and unusual, regardless of time and space, heaven and earth, mountain treasures and aquatic can be dissolved into one of the composition of the combination of the experts' admiration. Together with its rich practical system and diversified treatments such as fine needlepoint line patterns, it has fully established its high grade in the field of folk arts and crafts. Yin's evaluation of Yangxin cloth stickers is of this opinion.

Yangxin cloth stickers have a wide range of varieties, involving nearly more than 30 series of household daily necessities, women's wedding jewelry, children's wear, temple bushes and streamers, etc., whose contents are mostly plants and animals in daily life and traditional auspicious images.

November 23, 2012, the first Hubei - Yangxin Cloth Sticker Exhibition and Yangxin County Square Dance Competition, in the Yangxin Ancient Mall Fuchuan Stage officially opened. Experts and scholars from provinces, cities and counties related to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on the inheritance, protection and rational use of Yangxin cloth stickers to discuss.