The development of Dangaer leather embroidery

Huangyuan, known as the "Western Qiang" "Dan Gar", where is the early living place of the Qiang people, is also an important post on the Silk Road and Tangfangudao, combination of farming culture and nomadic culture, known as "sea throat". The tangfangudao was opened in Tang Dynasty. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become the most important town of western ethnic trade and cultural exchange. In the late Qing Dynasty, Dan Gar city became a famous trade center, local vendors, skilled craftsmen have settled, cattle and sheep, wool, hides and other kinds of goods got together, trade and econimic was prosperity. The reputation of "Small Beijing" "Huanhaishangdu" was spreaded all over the world.In addition, Huangyuan belongs to the transition zone of the agricultural and pastoral areas, the skin is adequate, which effectively promoted the development of leather industry, the technology is excellent, leather craftsman who was specializing in the production of skin created rich material conditions for Dangaer embroidered leather production.

The prosperity of Commerce and trade, also promote the exchange and dissemination of culture, For thousands of years, the people from all over the world live here, various cultures were appeared, the spiritual life of people was higher and higher, all kinds of skins have become the best carrier for this desire. Dan Gar embroidered leather is produced with the sufficient material conditions and cultural integration in the process of art treasures.
The development history of embroidered leather is long, You can imagine the people embroidered primitive totem symbol as decoration or worship things on the shoe cap, quiver, leather products with wool, leather rope and other materials in the early life. After that, in the long process of development, with a variety of ethnic, cultural exchanges, embroidered leather also gradually merges the South and the north skills, develop a simple but elegant style, content, materials and manufacturing process has become increasingly rich, complicated and exquisite.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dan Gar Embroidered Leather was gradually mature, and specialized leather embroidery art was even appeared, it contains the contents of the landscape, flowers and birds, characters and other aspects, the picture form is true to life likeness, including clothing, jewelry, daily utensils, materials for the colored silk, wool, hair, but also integrating embroidery skills around the north and South. The work is primitive, simplicity, miscellaneous, and gradually formed distinct artistic characteristics and regional characteristics, becomes a treasure of Chinese culture.
Due to historical reasons, Dan Gar Embroidered Leather this exquisite handmade art faces the danger of lost. Therefore, mining, protecting, inheriting and developing Dan Gar embroidered leather has great significance to develop cultural industry, inherit culture and art, and create the cultural brand of Huangyuan.
In recent years, Huangyuan county takes Dan Gar embroidered leather as the main project to create the cultural brand of Huangyuan, set up research and development institutions, designate special personnel, and organize or invite the relevant cultural professionals, collect the typical samples and literature data, to excavate and make up, preliminary know its origin, development, distribution and preservation of the status quo. At the same time, developing folk artists and skilled craftsmen, protect and innovate the traditional embroidered leather, created a number of exquisite embroidered leather products.
After the reform of Dan Gar leather embroidery art, using modern various embroidery techniques and new materials, the forms are more diverse, the theme is more widespread, and into the barbola, embroidery, embroidery, embroidery plate hiding techniques, selecting educational allusions, literature, folk tales, legends and reflect the natural scenery, cultural relics and folk art, local, using a variety of acupuncture and the color of the embroidery threads, play the performance of needle force. Thus, the Dan Gar Embroidered Leather this plateau folk art is more vivid with new vitality.Dan Gar embroidered leather as concentrated Multicultural Art, integrating into the Han, Tibetan, Mongolian culture gene, Hui and other ethnic and the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, contains the essence of a national culture, has its unique production art.