Good-looking and fun, traditional non-legacy appearance at China International Fashion Week.

  Guangming Net News (Reporter Zhao Yanyan) When it comes to International Fashion Week, what do you think of first? The runway? Tide brand? Handsome men and beautiful women? However, on the morning of October 27th, a group of Chinese aunts, with an average age of over 60 and wearing embroidered cheongsam, appeared at the WPMMC Nalanhong Gaoding special show, which broke people’s inherent impression.

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  Substitute amateurs for majors Chinese aunts can also be fashionable.

  "Today’s catwalk, it didn’t use some beautiful models, but used some ordinary people in our lives to walk the catwalk. I think it’s very good." Du Haijiang, secretary of the Party Committee of the Palace Museum, said. On the day of the big show, 55 retired aunts dressed in colorful embroidered cheongsam walked confidently under the spotlight, which really surprised the audience.

  "We are either professional models or a group of people who have retired." In front of the exhibition board, model Gao Xiuli took a group photo with her family with the certificate of "Nalanhong Exclusive Model". "In the past, there were few opportunities. We all organized our own activities, but in recent years, more and more institutions have invited us, and they are all related to non-legacy and nationality." Gao Xiuli said that in recent years, she has gone to a lot of cheongsam shows, but it is not the kind of cheongsam that feels particularly far away from people’s lives at first sight. "It’s all the kind of cheongsam that people think when they look at it ‘ Eh, I feel I can wear it ’ The kind of cheongsam. Moreover, there are some intangible elements such as full embroidery and Suzhou embroidery. We feel that while enriching our spare time, we also spread our China culture, which is particularly good. "

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  China elements appear on the international stage. Non-genetic seeding is the general trend

  "It is a major trend of fashion design to integrate more national elements and non-legacy elements of China on the international stage." Tang Weiting and Yang Xiao from Beijing Institute of Fashion told Guangming. com. As design students, they got tickets for today from the school teacher and rushed to the show without stopping. "Generally, we talk about ‘ Gao ding ’ Everyone feels particularly fashionable and advanced, and today’s show is to put ‘ Full embroidery ’ This national heritage, and ‘ Cheongsam ’ This kind of China traditional dress, and ‘ Gao ding ’ This very advanced gameplay has been combined and it has been very successful. I think as a student majoring in fashion design, I have also gained a lot. "

  Exquisite buckle, slim waist, elegant skirt and swaying earrings … … Every work presented on the runway contains more or less embroidered elements. “‘ Full embroidery ’ As an intangible cultural heritage with Manchu characteristics and a national intangible cultural heritage, she has a history of more than 800 years. " Liu Sitong, founder of Nalanhong, told reporters. "I just think of an art with such a cultural heritage. We can’t just let her lie in the museum for people to see. We should let her come into our life and combine it with our life."

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  As the provincial representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project Manchu Embroidery in Heilongjiang Province, Liu Sitong has always been committed to promoting Manchu Embroidery culture, embroidering the new trend of the times with filar silk and colored thread, and telling Manchu Embroidery stories with needle and thread. Every stitch seems to be an emotional and cultural sustenance. A tiny steel needle connects red, yellow, blue, white and other colored silk threads in one go, weaving and embroidering exquisite patterns, showing a gorgeous and unique artistic style between the threads, which contains the innovative spirit of craftsmen’s meticulous work and courage to explore.

  "In addition to today’s full embroidery, there are Suzhou embroidery, Shu brocade, Miao embroidery, Qiandongnan embroidery, etc. Many unique intangible elements in China have been put on the stage of different international fashion weeks one after another, and the response is particularly good." Zhang Ling, President of China District of the World Professional Fashion Model Contest, said that the concentrated display of various intangible cultural elements in the "Hundred Years Intangible Cultural Heritage Show" held in Guizhou once shocked foreign fashion people who came to watch the show. In the future, China’s non-genetic inheritors and designers will take China’s non-legacy culture to fashion weeks all over the world to let the world know about China, pay attention to China and fall in love with China.

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  Let the people know the legacy. Let the intangible heritage come into life

  In addition to external communication, there is also internal communication. Liu Sitong said that in recent years, with the strengthening of China’s cultural heritage protection, traditional handicrafts have been revitalized and integrated into the market and life. Intangible cultural heritage is not only a product or work that embodies cultural traditions, but also a platform for people to visit in museums. Instead, it guides the masses to get in touch, know and experience intangible cultural heritage at close range, leads more social subjects to strengthen creative transformation and innovative development of intangible cultural heritage, and explores new methods, new ways and new mechanisms for the integrated development of intangible cultural heritage and cultural industries to accelerate the promotion of intangible cultural heritage.

  "Non-legacy should be visible and participatory to ordinary people." Liu Sitong said, let the people know about the intangible heritage, feel the intangible heritage, let the children contact the intangible heritage, sow the seeds of the intangible heritage in their young hearts, and let everyone participate and work together to make the intangible heritage into life continue; Only in this way can the "non-legacy" live, move and catch fire, and the traditional craft can be truly continued.

  "Chinese culture continues the national spirit and blood of our country. It needs to be passed down from generation to generation, and it also needs to keep pace with the times and innovate. Inheriting the intangible culture, I hope more people will join us. "