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Chaotian vocational middle school (2015 CyberFair Project ID 7912)
China, Guangyuan City
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 4. Local Specialties

We estimate 2 student(s) from 17 to 17 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Chaotian District belongs to county areas directly under jurisdiction of Guangyuan city, located at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu provinces. In Tang Tianbao 15 years, emperor Tangxuanzong came here when there happened the rebellion of An and Shi, hundreds of officials in Sichuan province saw the emperor here in the grand worship, therefore, the placer was named as Chaotian, which has a long history. 5000 years ago, there were the ancient ancestors living here. There are rich cultural heritage, such as Bright Moon Gorge, Choubi Courier Station, Longmen Pavilion and Qipanguan; the scenery in Zengjia Moutain and ShuimoGou is beautiful, and the air is fresh, it is a great place for ecological health; there are splendid folk cultures: Li's gong and drum, Nuo opera of Pingxi, Choubi Suona, Xiao'an folk songs; there are folk customs with unique features, such as Crying Marriage, Duet Gong, Hitting in Marriage Ceremony. In 1935, China's fourth front red army of workers and peasants, cooperating with the central red army's strategic shift to crush the fifth encirclement and suppression of the kuomintang(KMT),came to Changtian and founded the Soviet government in Hongping county, spreading the revolutionary fire seeds onto this ancient land. Shu Road's history and culture, folk culture, ecological cultures, the red army culture, constitute the cultural ecological environment of Maliu embroidery, which irrigates and inspires cultural life of Maliu embroidery.

Project Description: With interviews of folk successors and experts in Cultural Center, we further study the characteristics and development of Maliu embroidery, and we deeply felt that characteristics culture of Maliu embroidery, is a folk art passed down and developed by family inheritane from one generation to another, is exquisite folk art treasure created by ancestors in Maliu township in self-sufficiency and carefree life. And we also find that there is succession crisis for Maliu embroidery, for traditional folk art with a long history and profound influence, we should have the responsibility to pass it down and develop it.

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