Gu Mingqi is a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of Jilihu silk handmade craftsmanship. He graduated from Wuxing No. 1 Middle School. After August 1963, he worked as a farmer at home and learned the reeling craft of Jilihu silk from his parents. After February 1969, he worked as an agricultural technician and sericulture counselor in Jili Village. He has been engaged in agriculture and sericulture production, and as an agricultural technology demonstration household, he has participated in agricultural technology promotion.

What is Hu Silk?

Jili Hu Silk is also known as "Jili Silk" because it is produced in Jili Village, Nanxun Town.The silkworms used are the self-bred "lotus seed", also known as "lake silkworm", which is of excellent quality and is particularly suitable for reeling high-quality mulberry silk. In 1851, "Jili Hu Silk" won the gold medal at the first International Exposition.

The name "Huzhou Silk" originated from the Southern Song Dynasty Jiatai period when "Huzhou Silk was spread all over the world" and the name "Huzhou" was used for this purpose.

Zheng Xiaohua, who has been engaged in the production of lingjuan since the 1980s and has mastered traditional handcrafting techniques, is currently the general manager of Huzhou Yunhe Lingjuan Co., Ltd. and the director of Huzhou Shuangling Lingjuan Factory. Since November 2000, he has been carrying out comprehensive development and protection of the traditional cultural variety Shuanglin Lingjuan, making the endangered original handcraft shine again.

What is Shuanglin Lingjuan?

The production of Shuanglin Lingjuan can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period, when Huzhou was under the rule of the Eastern Wu and was known as "Wu Ling Shu Guo Jin". Among the traditional Chinese silk fabrics - "ling, gauze, silk and satin", Lingjuan ranks first. Shuanglin Lingjuan is as thin as a cicada's wing and has a soft texture, and is known as the "flower of silk weaving craftsmanship".

Gu Weifang, born in Suzhou in 1973, is a arts and crafts artist. The family has been engaged in embroidery for many generations, since childhood, they have loved silk embroidery and traditional culture, and for 30 years, adhering to the family's concept of "love, sincerity, perseverance, and inheritance", they have studied its Chinese, and its works have won many awards, and it is a director unit of the Embroidery Association.

Kesi（缂丝）, also known as "carved silk", is the essence of traditional Chinese silk art. It uses the weaving method of "through the warp and weft", the warp is through, and the weft changes the color and direction according to the pattern, and the pattern and color on both sides are the same. Its origin is not later than the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was prosperous, mostly used for royal clothing, calligraphy and painting reproduction, the Ming and Qing dynasties were more refined, the style was gorgeous. The silk pattern is exquisite, the lines are delicate, the three-dimensional sense and the sense of hierarchy is strong, because the process is complex, precious as gold, and it can also realistically restore the charm of calligraphy and painting.

Li Cunling, joined Jingxi Zhuangjin Factory in 1987, engaged in Zhuangjin handicraft business for 37 years, starting from ordinary employees, weaver girls, and then to the factory director, the sixth generation inheritor, Guangxi Arts and Crafts Master, national intangible cultural heritage inheritor, Baise Municipal People's Congress.

What is Zhuangjin?

Zhuang brocade is a traditional and exquisite handicraft of the Zhuang nationality.

It is colorful and gorgeous, skillfully interweaving rich patterns full of ethnic customs such as flowers, birds, fish and insects, character stories, etc. Its texture is thick and the texture is clear, which embodies the wisdom and creativity of the Zhuang people.

Zhu Shuqin, the provincial inheritor of Chaozhou raffia embroidery skills in Guangdong Province, the master of arts and crafts in Guangdong Province, the national senior arts and crafts artist, the current director of Chaoshan Raffia Research Institute in Chaozhou City, and the head of the Chaoshan embroidery family.

What is chao embroidery?

Chao embroidery is an important branch of Cantonese embroidery, one of the four famous embroideries in China.Started in the Tang Dynasty, the style was formed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and spread in China and Southeast Asia. His stitching method is based on the five basic embroidery techniques of "paving, padding, nailing, pasting, and embellishment". Often make the embroidery show the artistic effect of relief, there are many stitches, there are two needles dragon scale needle, rotary needle, bridge needle and other hundreds of needles. The pattern is rigorous, the color is magnificent, the use of gold thread, silver thread, velvet thread combined embroidery, the cushion is convex and rich in strong decoration, the picture is like a carved emboss, the color is magnificent.