Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Chen Zhijia
52-year-old Liu Chudian's eyesight is not as good as before. She began to learn embroidery at the age of five and dealt with needle and thread every day, but this year she never pinched needle and thread again. "Since the second half of last year, if you don't wear reading glasses, you can't get a needle at all. Now you have to slowly quit the embroidery you love all your life. " Liu Chudian said with some regret that what worries her more is that with the gradual fading out of the older generation of embroidery workers, Chaozhou embroidery really lacks successors.
Liu Chudian: Female, born in, 1965, is a Chaozhou embroidery artist, who studied under Lin Zhicheng, a master of Chaozhou embroidery. In order to arouse people's attention to Chaozhou embroidery, it took her 14 years to embroider a 60-meter-long Chinese version and an 84-meter-long English version of Diamond Sutra. She is one of the important inheritors of Chaozhou embroidery, and has devoted ten years to the declining Chaozhou embroidery.
Liu Chudian embroidered screen.
It takes half an hour to embroider a "W".
Liu Chudian was influenced by his family since childhood. At the age of five, he studied embroidery with his mother and aunt, and later studied under the famous contemporary Chaozhou embroidery master and China arts and crafts master Mr. Lin Zhicheng.
In 2003, seeing the decline of Chaozhou embroidery, she decided to embroider a Buddhist sutra that foreigners could understand in order to arouse the world's attention to Chaozhou embroidery. To this end, Liu Chudian spent four years working on the embroidered couch in front of his window for nearly 10 hours every day. Finally, an English version of the Diamond Sutra, 84 meters long and 0.33 meters wide, was presented to the world, and it is also the longest English version of the Diamond Sutra in the world so far.
Liu Chudian said that she didn't know English at all, and even didn't know English letters. After she found the English version of the Diamond Sutra, she also sent the manuscript to the Beijing Buddhist Association for proofreading. She is most afraid of embroidering the letter W when she speaks English, because it takes at least half an hour to embroider a letter W, and only 30 letters can be embroidered a day at most.
Liu Chudian's English version of The Diamond Sutra is embroidered on a kind of silk called Double Palace Silk, which can be preserved for thousands of years. Embroidering on this fabric is much more difficult than other fabrics. A little carelessness, the whole work will be scrapped. "I use double palace silk, one is to prove my skills, and the other is to prove that Chaozhou embroidery is not lost to Shu embroidery, Xiang embroidery and Su embroidery."
Liu Chudian is working.
/kloc-more than 6,000 seal characters were embroidered in 0/0.
Before the English version of Diamond Suture came out, Liu Chudian had spent ten years embroidering a 60-meter-long and 0.33-meter-wide Chinese version of Diamond Suture. After the publication of the works, many calligraphers and embroidery technicians were amazed that the works included 32 kinds of seal characters such as husband and wife calligraphy and Kirin calligraphy.
Liu Chudian said that the satin of the Diamond Sutra is very spectacular after completion. A 6000-word Diamond Sutra uses 32 kinds of seal characters, such as the shapes of husband and wife, unicorn and tadpole. Every word has fine stitches, and hieroglyphics are freehand and vivid.
"The hardest thing is to embroider auspicious animals such as couples, Kirin and dragons. They are too small to see clearly when printing, but they should be embroidered vividly. " An ordinary Chinese character needs to be embroidered with 250 stitches to 1000 stitches, while the complicated seal script characters such as Kirin are almost more than 2,500 stitches per word, and few words can be embroidered in one day.
In the ten years from 1993, Liu Chudian embroidered almost every day from 8: 00 am to 1 1 pm, and finally both Chinese and English works were successfully declared in the Guinness Book of World Records.