The film crews of TV program "Treasures in My Hometown", which is affiliated to the Hunan TV channel's famous TV show "Progress everyday", entered Wenzhou this March and the amazing hair embroidery art was fully displayed in the program. At present, Wenzhou Museum has a collection of the outstanding hair embroidery work "Sun Yat-Sen", which was created by Wei Jingxian who has been called "Hair Embroidery Diplomat". From this piece of hair embroidery work, perhaps we can have a glimpse on the legendary story of Wenzhou's "Hair Embroidery Diplomacy."

 The hair embroidery work "Sun Yat-Sen" created by Wei Jingxian


Wei Jingxian

The history of Wenzhou Hair Embroidery

"The Eastern Artistic Stunt" constituted by needles and hairs

 Wenzhou Hair Embroidery is a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage project. It is also known as “The Five Embroideries” together with Hangzhou Embroidery, Ningbo Embroidery, Ou Embroidery, and Taizhou Embroidery. It is also one of the 24 regional embroidery species in China. The so-called hair embroidery is such an art that taking the natural-color human hairs as the materials and the needle as the tool to create artistic images on the flat fabrics by wielding the needle with adherence to the law of formative arts. Compared with ordinary floss embroidery, the hair embroidery is expressed by the natural-color hair, which makes the artistic images be more realistic and stereoscopic. Furthermore, it can be preserved for a long time with its unique artistic features.

"The Hair Embroidery Diplomacy" enhanced Wenzhou's Popularity

  Wenzhou Hair Embroidery works have been given to foreign leaders as gifts for many times and are well-accepted. For examples, a hair-embroidered portrait of the Queen of the Netherlands