Wang Suhua's Baifu Village

Wang Suhua is a native of Baifu Village, Renci Township, xinji city, and now lives in Beihe Street, Xinhua District, Shijiazhuang City. It has been 70 years since I started to learn embroidery at the age of ten.

By chance, I saw a gecko embroidered on someone's wallet. The wiring and modeling are very good, but the head is close to the cloth, which is somewhat rigid and not realistic. So she became very interested. She tried to do it with a needle and thread, tearing it apart, tearing it apart, even forgetting to eat and sleep. Her mind is full of gecko crawling, foraging and biting. Finally succeeded. The gecko embroidered by her looks up for food and is lifelike, which has made great innovation and development on the basis of others.

The contents and forms of Wang Su flower embroidery are various, such as embroidered wallet, sachet, embroidered letter bag, small wallet and waist. Embroidered shoes include children's cat head embroidered shoes and embroidered hats, tiger head and pig head shoes, children's lion head hats and xianggong hats. Embroidered pillows include square pillows with hidden characters in rural areas and flat pillows commonly used in cities. In short, as long as there is space, her works can be seen everywhere, from bicycle seat covers and insoles to door curtains, televisions and sewing machine covers. Especially the works made with animal images are unique. Embroidering "five-colored worms" is her unique skill. Scorpion, dragonfly, centipede, frog, ant, snake, gecko, spider, dragonfly, mantis, bee, wasp, etc. Five of them are embroidered on the same painting. Commonly known as "five-color worm". Embroidered on children's stomachs or bibs, according to folklore, also has the function of avoiding evil spirits and eliminating disasters.

Wang Suhua strives for perfection in his works. Embroidered petals are deep and shallow, with green leaves, soft and light colors, giving people beautiful enjoyment; Embroidered dragons are flying, birds are singing and moving silently, giving people a feeling of rushing up; Embroidered dragonflies and butterflies spread their wings to fly; Embroidered words are vigorous, horizontal and vertical, beating around the bush, and never auspicious; Embroidery is rich, bamboo reports peace, phoenix rises in the morning, magpies climb plums, and princes sit on lotus ... giving people beautiful thoughts; The embroidered "five-color worm" is even more amazing. Ingenious conception, realistic modeling and lively form are simply unable to lift their heads and feet. This is what makes her different.

Wang Su flower embroidery technology has both inheritance and development, which has certain influence on society. Far away in the countryside, near the city, widely circulated. When a young man gets married and holds a wedding ceremony, let her embroider a pillow as a dowry to decorate the new house. Whoever gives birth to a child is asked to make small shoes, have a stomachache and bib. Embroidery "Five-colored Insect" embroidery has spread to Li Sanhe Wuxiang, surrounding counties, Shijiazhuang, Beijing, Lanzhou and other small villages and towns in cities through friends and relatives. Both country people and city people collect its treasures.

In order to promote folk culture, Wang Suhua has taught more than 100 people. Wang Suhua was never conservative about her embroidery skills. On the contrary, the loss of her skills is what worries her most. Therefore, her neighbors and daughters-in-law in Shiliba village always greeted her with smiles when they came to learn her craft, never tired of asking questions, being responsive and teaching patiently until they fully learned it. The best student is her niece Zhao Xiaomin, who has become a minor celebrity in the local area.

There are many other handicrafts in Wang Suhua. For example, she weaves hedges with Vitex negundo, sticks lanterns with sorghum stalks, wears fans with wheat stalks, makes chickens with silkworm cocoons, makes small pots and baskets with paper pulp, makes hydrangeas with rags, holds brands with ropes, and weaves baskets with packaging. These baskets are long and round, with different shapes and colors. In particular, the basket she knitted is. She also knits sweaters, cushions, window grilles, wallets and wind chimes with various patterns ... In short, in her eyes, everything is useful, and any material can be made into gadgets that she can't put down. Her motto is: "It's never too old to learn, and it's no coincidence to live to 80!" "