Neck decoration

When investigating traditional villages in Guizhou, a friend was filled with emotion in the face of the fading of many intangible cultural heritages. Whenever she met children, she would earnestly tell them: You see, those patterns are beautiful, you must learn from your grandma in the future, and don't throw away such a good tradition!

The children listened muddily and nodded their heads. I am very pessimistic that in a few years, they will follow in the footsteps of their brothers and sisters and join the migrant population. These beautiful patterns, I am afraid to stay in the memory forever. Even from this friend's words of persuasion, I can hear her helplessness: to learn from grandma, not mother -- because mothers are working in the city, already can not embroider.

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< strong > pond is in the village of handicraft < / strong >

pond in the village of traditional arts and crafts is faced with the plight of inheritance.

Tangdu is a family village in Huangping County, southeast of Guizhou Province. The family is an unidentified ethnic group other than 56 ethnic groups, mainly living in the mountains in southeast Guizhou. They claim to be the descendants of Houyi, and have their own unique worship and festival system of ancestral drums, as well as distinctive traditional handicrafts.

The most outstanding traditional handicraft in Tangdu village is the silver jewelry technique. The family valued silver jewelry more than money. Every girl must have a set of silver jewelry when she got married. From the headwear to the neck jewelry to the hand jewelry, all of them are indispensable. Silver jewelry is a symbol of status for girls. The higher the quality, the more beautiful the girl and her family will be. Therefore, a special group of silversmiths emerged to make a living from this.

As long as the surrounding family is in need of silver jewelry, the metropolis comes to the silversmiths in Tangdu. There are ten silversmiths in this village. However, because both the pattern and the headwear are not in common with other ethnic groups, few customers from outside the family come to Tang to buy silver jewelry. Generally, customers take silver to silversmith processing, silversmith only charge processing fees, the price is about 20 ~ 30 yuan/two. Silversmiths themselves do not hoard silver, do not sell. The pattern of silver jewelry is determined according to the customer's request, and most of them are traditional patterns. Because the importance of silver jewelry is high, the demand is large in the ethnic group, the income of silversmiths is naturally high, generally can have an income of three or five thousand yuan per month, and even can reach 8,000 yuan in many times.

Logically speaking, there should be a lot of people willing to learn silver jewelry skills. However, the inheritance of silver jewelry craft in Tangdu Village is faced with the dilemma that there is no successor. Although there are more than a dozen silversmiths in the village, most of them are over 50 years old, and the youngest is over 30 years old. The sons of those old masters were not willing to continue to be silversmiths as a profession. Some of them did not want to learn at all, and some of them followed the study for a few days, because it was too hard, and finally gave up.

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