In fact, the traditional craft of Diancui is excellent, but the raw materials it uses are quite cruel. The times are changing, and its raw materials can also change with it. For example, the use of goose feathers, ribbons, silks and satins. , can completely replace kingfisher feathers, so that the skills can be preserved and consumers will be more acceptable. Seeking balance in change is the long-term way of sustainable development.

0 1, it is necessary to take feathers from live kingfishers in the process of Diancui. There are rumors that it is an ornament made of kingfisher feathers and will never fade. In fact, this is a lie. It turns out that Diancui cultural relics will still fade. This statement is only to support people to get kingfisher feathers.

The process of picking kingfisher feathers is quite cruel. It takes feathers from the living kingfisher. Take 20 from the kingfisher's wings? Big strip? Take 8 off your tail? Tail strip? This is the feather that Hard Cui needs. Correspondingly, there is soft Cui, which is made of the tiny feathers of kingfishers.

The ornaments made by this process have excellent color and are very beautiful, and their service life can reach about 100 years, while the top grades of kingfisher feathers are snow blue and emerald blue. It is worth mentioning that kingfishers will die soon after their feathers are plucked.

02. The person in charge of the Suzhou store said that netizens used a white-breasted kingfisher when they exposed Suzhou. Overseas Chinese jewelry studio? When the real kingfisher feathers were used in large quantities, the person in charge of the studio stood up and declared that their cuisine had been passed down for four generations, and they did use the real kingfisher feathers, but the white-breasted kingfisher they used did not belong to the three major protected animals.

However, I don't agree with the practice of the studio. After all, kingfishers can't be cultivated artificially at all, and they can only be obtained by wild hunting. This skill reached its peak in Qing dynasty, which once made kingfishers on the verge of extinction. Therefore, after people realize the importance of environmental problems, most kingfishers have been listed as protected animals. Even though kingfishers are not protected animals, they are still very rare birds.

03. The traditional craft can be upgraded without compulsory use of kingfisher feathers. Even if the studio uses all the white-breasted kingfisher feathers, this practice is still not desirable. Its production process is too cruel and consumes a lot of kingfishers. No unit or organization advocates this practice, and social morality does not support this excessively cruel behavior.

With the progress of the times, people can use farmed goose feathers instead of kingfisher feathers, and the final effect is quite good after goose feathers are dyed. In addition, it can be replaced with blue satin silk, which is no different from the real jade feather after treatment. This method is more environmentally friendly, with lower cost, and there is no need to continue to use real jade feathers.