Dangaer leather embroidery is a brilliant handicraft created by Huangyuan people. With a history of over 1,000 years, it enjoys exquisite techniques, unique artistic style and rich cultural implication. The art treasure is the perfect embodiment of farming culture and stock raising culture. Huangyuan county is located in the north shore of the Yellow River , east of Xihai and the source of Huangshui, which is the joint of agricultural area and pastoral area in our province. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, here is the most important traffic way, and the political, economical, cultural place of all the countries, known as "Haizangtongqu" "Huanhaishangdu". Here are the ruins of Han and Tang Dynasties, the tea horse trade, Tangfangudao and many rich cultural connotations. Influenced by the dual culture unique geographical location and the farming and animal husbandry, Dan Gar Embroidered Leather has a style of its own, exploring the moon mountain art treasures, has profound significance for the excavation and protection of ethnic culture.

Historical origins

Leather embroidery is a kind of folk arts and crafts which is made of all kinds of fur, is the outstanding handmade works which is created by people in Huangyuan with exquisite craftsmanship, unique artistic style and rich cultural implication, has a history of thousands of years. However, with the passage of time, this national treasure is little-known.At the beginning of the winter, the reporter saw Yang Fenyun in Huangyuan County museum. The seven or eight women were holding all kinds of embroidery, embroidered in accordance with the pattern, the house is quiet surprisingly, they unawared on our arrival. Huangyuan County Museum deputy curator Zhang Yongfu is thin, sunken eyes are brimming with radiating vigour, speaking of embroidered leather, his chatterbox was opened.

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.

Exquisite craftsmanship

Into Dan Gar embroidered leather exhibition room, as if into a condensed history. Princess Wencheng, the sun and the moon mountain, prairie City , thousands of years of history and culture was displayed with exquisite embroidery, it is dazzling.