Introduction to embroidery: Qiang embroidery is divided into color embroidery and plain embroidery with white patterns on a black background. The materials are coarse cloth, cotton thread, and silk thread. It is self-contained in composition and color. The composition includes main flowers, side flowers, corner flowers, supplementary points, etc. The main flower patterns include golden pheasants wearing peonies, lions rolling hydrangea, auspicious sparrows announcing spring, butterflies holding flowers, magpies making plum blossoms, auspicious plum blossoms, etc. The main ones are peonies, horn flowers, azaleas, pomegranates, lotus, butterflies, and phoenixes. . Border flowers and corner flowers are embellishments on the four sides of Qiang embroidery. The patterns are mostly two-square continuous patterns or triangles, and they are mostly various animal and plant patterns. Today, Qiang embroidery has become a national intangible cultural heritage. After the Wenchuan earthquake, Qiang embroidery also became an important way for local people in Mao County to help themselves through production. The clothes embroidered by Qiang women themselves have become the most famous tourist souvenirs in Mao County.

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