Embroidery, known as needle embroidery in ancient times, is a process that designs are embroidered on textiles with embroidery needles to draw colorful lines, and the patterns are formed by embroidery marks. It was called "haze" and "needle haze" in ancient times. Because embroidery is mostly made by women, it is an important part of needlework. Embroidery is one of the ancient handcraft skills in China, and the handcraft embroidery technology in China has a history of more than 2,000 years. According to the Book of History, as early as 4,000 years ago, the system of chapter clothes stipulated that "clothes should be embroidered".

Embroidery originated very early. Embroidered characters of hedgehogs can be found in history books. At the time of Yu Shun, there was embroidery. Officials were appointed to perform their duties in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and there was court embroidery in the Han Dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wu asked Mrs. Zhao to embroider the landscape army array. In the first year of Tang Yongzhen (A.D. 805), Lu Meiniang embroidered seven volumes of "Northern Territory" on the ruler and silk, which was famous for its embroidery and recorded before. Since the Han Dynasty, embroidery has gradually become a boudoir stunt, and famous embroidery workers have also occupied a place in the art history.

In the Zhou Dynasty, there was a record of "embroidery * * *". The level of embroidery in the Warring States and Han Dynasties unearthed in Hubei and Hunan is very high. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, embroidery was used for painting, calligraphy and decoration. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the scale of court embroidery was large, and folk embroidery was further developed. Suzhou Embroidery, Guangdong Embroidery, Xiang Embroidery and Shu Embroidery came into being one after another, and they are called "Four Famous Embroideries". In addition, there are Gu Embroideries, such as Beijing Embroidery, Ou Embroidery, Lu Embroidery, Min Embroidery, Bian Embroidery, Han Embroidery and Miao Xiu, all of which have their own styles, which have been handed down for a long time. There are dozens of embroidery stitches, such as Qi Zhen, sleeve needle, inserting needle, long and short needle, minute needle, Ping Jin, and shifting sand, which are rich in colors and have their own characteristics. The uses of embroidery include: shroud, song and dance or opera clothes, tablecloths, pillowcases, cushions and other daily necessities, screens, wall hangings and other furnishings. Embroidery is a general term for all kinds of decorative patterns embroidered on fabrics with needles and threads. It is a decorative fabric with stitch patterns formed by puncturing silk thread or other fibers and yarns on embroidery materials with certain patterns and colors with needles. This is an art of adding people's design and production to any existing fabric with needles and threads. Embroidery is one of the traditional folk handicrafts in China, which has a history of at least two or three thousand years in China. Chinese embroidery mainly includes Su embroidery, Xiang embroidery, Shu embroidery and Yue embroidery. Embroidery techniques include: wrong needle embroidery, disorderly needle embroidery, net embroidery, ground embroidery, silk locking, silk knitting, silk knitting, Ping Jin, shadow gold, sheet metal, velvet laying, velvet scraping, yarn poking, thread sprinkling and flower picking. The uses of embroidery mainly include life and artistic decoration, such as clothing, bedding, tablecloth, stage and artwork decoration.