First, make a cloth shell-paste four layers of cotton cloth evenly together, then paste various colors of silk cloth on the base cloth and press it into a flat and solid cloth shell; Next, make petals. Generally speaking, regardless of the size, the petals of Jingxi hydrangea are 12 petals and one ball.
Embroidering petals is the most important step. Generally, the smaller the hydrangea pattern, the simpler it is, and the larger the hydrangea pattern, the more complex and vivid it is. According to legend, there is a saying that "except for the middle four petals, the rest require that the upper four petals must pick birds and the lower four petals must be animals". Every woman in the old street can basically draw a pattern of hydrangea with a diameter of less than 6 cm, but if the diameter is more than 8 cm, such as 12cm, 20 cm or even 1m, 2 m, what pattern should be embroidered and how to match the colors on the pattern? Zhu Zuxian or Huang Xiaoqin, who are good at painting, must draw well and match the colors before others can copy them.
Then, we made a triangular shuttle ball valve. Sister Liang said that mung beans, millet, cottonseed or chaff were used as fillers a long time ago, which gave hydrangea a certain weight and was suitable for throwing. Secondly, it is a metaphor to throw the seeds of friendship and love to each other, or to say that love is as evergreen as mung beans. I don't know when the hydrangeas in the old street were full of old cotton. Later, considering that the old cotton was unsanitary and easy to get wet, it was replaced by sawdust that was not easy to absorb water.
The last step is to sew the concentrated triangular shuttle valve body into a ball from tip to tip, and decorate it with small ornaments such as beads and ribbons, and a delicate hydrangea is made.
When the reporter arrived at Huang Xiaoqin's home, she was wearing glasses to make hydrangeas and was "piling up embroidery". It is said that the most exquisite hydrangea is the "heap embroidery hydrangea" made by old artists in Jingxi, an ancient and complicated embroidery process. Huang Xiaoqin explained that the most common hydrangea is to embroider various patterns on the petal surface through single-thread embroidery. The pattern on the petal fabric is relatively flat, the lines and colors are picturesque, and the embroidery method and technology are relatively simple. The figure of "heap embroidery and hydrangea" in double-thread embroidery is more delicate and complicated, and the things outlined are lifelike and full of three-dimensional sense. For example, if something fresh wants to come out of generate, it can be called the crystal in hydrangea. "Pile Embroidery" is a complex process with high requirements.
2. Was there really a practice of throwing hydrangeas in ancient times?
In traditional dramas and classical novels, there are often wonderful descriptions of rich girls throwing hydrangeas at colorful houses.
There are well-known repertoires such as "Three Highs and Five Years" and "Tales of Colorful Buildings". It is said that Wang Baochuan, the daughter of the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, hit Xue Pinggui, a beggar, with an embroidered ball on the colorful building, which led to a series of wonderful stories. The Journey to the West and other classic novels describe Xuanzang's father, the top student in Chen Guangrui High School. When he was allowed to March in the street, he was taken by Miss Yin Wenjiao of Xiangfu, threw down the hydrangea and hit the black gauze hat, and happily married him.
According to textual research, these stories are all false, and even Prime Minister Xue Pinggui and Yin have no such characters, not to mention such an unusually romantic street romance. Some people think that the way of throwing hydrangeas to attract relatives and choose spouses is not fiction, and this custom existed as early as the Zhou Dynasty.
"Zhou Li. Local officials.
Media's: "Mid-spring Moon makes men and women meet, so when it comes, runners can't help it." This is the origin of the custom of throwing hydrangeas.
Some people think that this statement is too far-fetched, and that the custom of throwing hydrangeas to attract relatives originated from the "horse carpet" trip in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It is based on the lyrics "Carpet Throw Music" written by Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty and "Carpet Throw Music" written by Shen Kuo in the Song Dynasty. The "ball" of hydrangea is the origin of the "ball" of horse carpet.
Qujiang, a new scholar in the Tang Dynasty, made a reasoning according to the custom of banquet, that is, riding a horse to Yujie, seeing flowers in Chang 'an, and thousands of people watching, and choosing a good woman to marry. He also quoted a poem by Gao Qi, a poet of the Ming Dynasty, entitled "Song of the Scholars in Tibetan Song Poetry" as evidence: "Where does the shadow owl return at dusk? The banquet in Qujiang Garden has just come back. Tianjie goes straight through the flowers and chooses the high-color carpet. "
Isn't this a true portrayal of "the colorful building attracts relatives to throw hydrangeas"? People generally think that these statements are not convincing enough: works like "Music of Throwing Carpets" and "Music of Throwing Carpets" are not necessarily related to throwing hydrangeas to attract relatives. If there is such a thing, it is much more wonderful than the scene of "playing the horse carpet" Poets will not be stingy with pen and ink in this respect. Why can't they find such a poem? As for Gao Qi's poems, it may be his reasonable imagination of Yuan Zaju, because Guan Hanqing has already described them with Pei Du in The Temple of the Mountain. Besides, if there is really a painting of "picking a son-in-law building with a colorful carpet pendant", why can't we see a similar painting? Even written records of this are hard to find.
Generally speaking, there is no way to attract relatives by throwing hydrangeas. The reason is that if there is such a custom in history, you can always find relevant written records. Why is there no obvious evidence in historical materials? Ancient marriage pays attention to "parents' orders and matchmakers' words". Isn't it a joke to throw colored balls to attract relatives? Choosing a good husband requires a comprehensive understanding of people. How can you be generous just by looking at their appearance? Besides, how many god pitchers does a rich girl have? Isn't it a lifelong regret to miss the lottery ball? Even if the colored ball hits the right person's head and is taken away by hooligans, is it necessary to go to court? However, throwing hydrangeas to attract relatives is by no means imaginary. How did this statement come from? Some people think that it originated from a traditional sports of Zhuang nationality.
More than 2,000 years ago, there was a bronze weapon "Flying Camel" in Zhuangxiang, which was used in combat and daily hunting. Later, the flying mound gradually developed into a throwing bag, and the girls transformed it into colored balls, which people used to throw and catch in their spare time as entertainment.
Especially in traditional festivals such as Spring Festival, March 3rd and Mid-Autumn Festival, colored balls will appear in song competitions. Girls will use colored balls as props to choose their partners and throw them at their lovers. If the young man has a crush on this girl, he can tie a small gift carefully prepared on the hydrangea. When a girl receives a gift from a young man, if she accepts it, it means that she has accepted the pursuit of the young man, or continues to express her affection for the song, or meets in a secluded place. This is the origin of choosing a mate with paintball.
In addition, there are similar games or legends among other fraternal peoples. This is the origin of the so-called custom of "throwing hydrangeas in colorful buildings" in the Central Plains. Ancient writers need artistic imagination to make up such a wonderful story.
3. How did throwing hydrangea come from in ancient times?
The customs of Guangxi.
There is a beautiful legend about hydrangea in Zhuangxiang. It is about a poor family living in a small village under the old town of Jiuzhou in Jingxi County more than 800 years ago. Adi, the son of a poor family, fell in love with Axiu, a girl from a neighboring village. Axiu is beautiful and kind, and deeply loves her honest, hardworking and brave brother. One spring, when Axiu was at the fair, he was attracted by a rich and powerful villain in the town. He wanted to marry Axiu. Axiu threatened to die, but he refused. When the rogue learned that Axiu loved his younger brother in the neighboring village deeply, he rolled his eyes and made a plan to make Axiu give up. He bribed the government, put Adi in a dungeon on trumped-up charges, and sentenced him to death, awaiting trial in autumn. When Axiu heard the news, it was like a bolt from the blue. He cried all day in Lacrimosa. After Axiu cried blind, Axiu started sewing hydrangeas stitch by stitch for Adi, who will be beheaded in autumn. The needle pierced his hand and blood flowed on the hydrangea. After being stained with blood, the flowers on the hydrangea become brighter, the leaves are greener and the birds are brighter. After 998 1 day, the hydrangea filled with Axiu's deep love for Adi and soaked with Axiu's blood was made. In Axiu, he sold his jewelry and bribed the jailer. Accompanied by his family, he touched the scrawny Adi who had been tortured for so long in a dark and humid dungeon. Axiu was desperate and fumbled for a hydrangea to hang around Artie's neck. At this moment, I saw a flash. Axiu, Adi and his family drifted to the foot of a beautiful and rich mountain, far away from the devil. Later, Axiu and Adi got married, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and lived a happy life with their hardworking hands.
From one word to ten words, slowly, hydrangea has become the mascot of the people in Zhuangxiang and the token of love of the young men and women in Zhuangxiang. Later, there were folk activities such as lion throwing hydrangea and rolling hydrangea.
It is understood that today, in Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand in Southeast Asia and parts of Mexico in South America, locals also have the custom of making hydrangeas as mascots for relatives and friends. Hydrangeas made by Mexicans are relatively small and brightly colored, usually with only 6 petals. Whenever festivals or distinguished guests arrive, hospitable Mexicans will present hydrangeas to guests or elders to represent good luck. Local residents in Thailand regard hydrangea as the Buddha's double body and think that wearing it often has the effect of exorcising evil spirits and strengthening the body. According to the literature, the Shan nationality (in modern Shan State, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and other places), Rinan County (the southernmost county in Jiaozhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in modern Vietnam's Guangji Province) and today's Zhuang nationality have the same tourist source relationship with the ancient Vietnamese in China, which may be because they all like hydrangea.
As for why the folk custom of "throwing hydrangea" has disappeared (actually, I don't think it has completely disappeared), it should be that this kind of marriage-seeking behavior, like a marriage-seeking competition, is a relatively extreme behavior with strong contingency. In ancient feudal society, parents' orders were emphasized, and matchmakers said that mainstream marriage should not be hasty. So I think this method of finding an object will not be accepted by the feudal mainstream society, so it did not become the mainstream folk custom in the end, so it gradually disappeared.
In fact, in The Journey to the West, Tang Priest's mother threw hydrangeas, and the oil vendor monopolized the flower heads, all of which were literary works with artistic exaggeration, not the main way of marriage in feudal society. Let's regard this way of marriage as an innocent romance like an ancient fairy tale!
4. How did you make the wedding flowers?
Are you talking about the hydrangea wrapped in yarn?
1. First choose the color you like or need to do.
2. Buy matching fishing line or gold thread and other auxiliary tools.
3. Measure the diameter and length of hydrangea.
If you are a novice, you'd better do it with two people and find one person to help you.
5. Open the yarn and naturally fold it in half from the middle to a distance of about 5 cm wide.
6. The person who helps you first stands in front of you, stretching out two index fingers and pointing horizontally.
7. Spread the first lap of yarn from the top of the opponent's left index finger to the right index finger, and then wrap the right index finger back.
8. Then stretch out your middle finger and repeat.
9. Until the little finger is wrapped and tied with gold thread from the middle.
10. Shake off the yarn gently, and fold it one by one, and the flower ball will be ready.