In Xiang embroidery, one of the four famous embroideries, whether it is Ping Xiu, Weaving Embroidery, Netting Embroidery, Knoting Embroidery, Knocking Embroidery, Cutting Embroidery, Stereo Embroidery, Shuang Mianxiu Embroidery, etc. They all pay attention to depicting the appearance and internal quality of objects, even scales, claws and leaves, and are meticulous. From the embroidery unearthed in 1958 Changsha Chu Tomb, it can be seen that Hunan local embroidery had developed to a certain extent as early as the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,500 years ago.
After the founding of New China, the government took active protective measures to rescue, inherit and develop embroidery skills, and successfully developed double-sided three-different embroidery and double-sided different-color embroidery. Many fine traditions of Chinese painting are transplanted into embroidery, and Chinese painting, embroidery, poetry, calligraphy and epigraphy are skillfully integrated into one, thus forming Xiang embroidery. Based on Chinese painting, Xiang embroidery uses more than 70 kinds of stitches and embroidery lines of 100 colors to give full play to the expressive force of stitches and carefully depict the internal characteristics of objects and images. Embroidery is vivid, vivid, strong in texture, both in form and spirit, and bold in style.
Among the traditional handicrafts of Han nationality in China, the four famous embroideries in China have a long history, such as Suzhou embroidery. Suzhou Ruiguang Pagoda and Tiger Hill, built in the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, have been unearthed with sutras of Suzhou embroidery, and they have been able to use flat grasp to lay needles, which is the earliest discovery of Suzhou embroidery. According to relevant historical records, since the Song Dynasty, Suzhou embroidery technology has developed vigorously and its technology has become increasingly mature. In rural areas, "every family raises silkworms to embroider", and there are also embroidery workshops, rolling embroidery workshops, splendid embroidery workshops and embroidery workshops in the city, which shows the prosperity of Suzhou embroidery. At that time, not only people who lived by embroidery, but also wealthy women often used it to entertain themselves and cultivate their own temperament, so there were so-called "folk embroidery", "boudoir embroidery" and "court embroidery". Suzhou embroidery in the Qing Dynasty was even more grand. Suzhou is known as the "embroidery capital" and is famous all over the world. At that time, there were as many stitches as in previous dynasties, such as mountains and rivers, pavilions, flowers and birds, figures, omnipotent and omnipotent. Coupled with the large demand of the court, luxurious embroidery emerges one after another. Suzhou embroidery later absorbed the characteristics of Shanghai's "Gu embroidery" and western painting, and created a style with clear light and shade and strong three-dimensional sense.