Out of the cocoon station, Xiangye walked on the stone road home, and somehow, she remembered the enlightenment teacher You Panyue who taught her Su embroidery.

Panyue lived in poverty before liberation, and worked in the Yuezhou Bay Embroidery Production Cooperative after liberation.

She is extremely skilled, can embroider landscapes, people, and also paint flowers, birds, grasses and insects. Most of the embroidery is bright and beautiful, and the specialty is "Pine and Crane with Spring".

For decades, she, like countless embroiderers, has depicted the splendid years with a needle and a thread, weaving the golden years of a generation.

Nowadays, China's Suzhou embroidery technology has reached a very high level, and the embroidery products have won many awards at home and abroad. Complete varieties of embroidery: according to the variety, there are double-sided embroidery and single-sided embroidery; According to the volume modeling, there are table screens, wall screens, floor screens and large combined screens; According to the content of the performance, there are people, pets, flowers and birds, landscapes, still lifes, characteristic buildings, etc.

Suzhou embroidery with needle as pen and thread as ink, is the most exquisite handicraft art with the characteristics of Chinese culture. It pays attention to threading needles, a landscape embroidery, the same color because of the embroidery surface of the distance, always pay attention to the shade of appropriate, the subtleties are the most difficult to deal with, the embroidery girl needs to have a good mood and space imagination, to be sensitive to color, a needle and a thread to be cautious.

Suzhou embroidery also pays attention to balance and symmetry in composition skills, the patterns are numerous, the layers are distinct and stacked, the picture is lifelike, there are cranes, phoenixes, hares, goldfish, double carp, kittens, herons, white peacocks, magpies, unicorns and other animals that represent auspiciousness, as well as magnolia, peony, begonia, orchid, ganoderma lucidum, cinnamon branches, lilies, plum blossoms, pines and cypresses, bamboo leaves and other precious plants. Suzhou embroidery has formed its own unique style of "fine, fine, elegant and clean".

Xiangye still remembers that when he first entered the industry, there was a "embroidery alley" in Yuezhou Bay, where many Zhimen workshops for embroidery were concentrated, and eighty or ninety colors of flower thread could be dyed, plus each color was distinguished by various shades, totaling 700 kinds, which was really full of purple and red.

Now the years have changed, and the original site of Embroidery Lane has been changed into a row of shops. Xiangye stood in the distance, his eyes infinitely lost.

Lan Eucalyptus hurriedly asked why, and Xiangye told her what happened. "Embroidery uses a needle as a pen, and silk thread is the pigment for painting. The "General Record of Dan Lead" says that "painters have seventy-two colors". What's more, the painter can use the existing pigments to create as many colors as needed. For example, Wang Xuan's "Introduction to Painting" mentions that "where indigo flowers are six points, and garcinia cambogia is four points, that is, old green; Indigo flowers are divided into three points, and garcinia cambogia is seven points, that is, tender green. ’”

Xiangye nodded after hearing this, "In this way, the same reason, Su embroidery also adds color according to the actual situation of the embroidered object." For example, embroidered peach blossoms, the stems are ochre, the leaves are green, the flowers are red, and the stamens are dark red. The color of flowers and leaves is divided into three to four grades from dark to light, the edge of the flower and leaf is light, and the middle color is dark, the stem is straight and the color is dark. The petals are light on the front and dark on the back, and the leaves are light on the back and dark on the front. ”

Lan Yu carefully considered her aunt's words in her mind, and suddenly remembered Zi Mozi's words, "If you dye it in the blue, it will be blue, and if you dye it in yellow, it will be yellow." When the person who enters changes, so does its color. Five into the must, and the other is five colors. Therefore, dyeing must not be careless. ”

The meaning of dyeing silk here is: dyeing silk means that people are influenced by influence, and the objective environment has a great impact on people's thoughts. People's minds are originally pure, but the bizarre social environment is like a colorful dye vat. The so-called "those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black" is this truth.