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HAIKOU, China, June 29, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

The evening of June 28 witnessed the launch of the four-day 2022 (2nd) Hainan

Brocade and Embroidery World Culture Week in Hainan Free Trade Port of southern

China. This event aims to forge the culture week into an internationally

influential platform for the world brocade and embroidery culture exchange and

exhibition through a series of wonderful activities, according to Department of

Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports of Hainan Province.

In the evening, the fashion show of "Clothing under the Sun" presented the

national intangible cultural heritage projects of Yunjin (Yun brocade), Songjin

(Song brocade) and Lijin (Li brocade) through the splendid costumes with

fashion trend and traditional cultural charm. The show, combined with the

international fashion style, predominant color, displays the vigor and vitality

of Hainan Lijin, and makes the public feel the charming glamour of the

intangible cultural heritage of Hainan.

Hainan Li brocade has a history of development for more than 3,000 years. Its

skill is the oldest cotton textile dyeing and embroidery technology in China

and even in the whole world, known as the "living fossil" of China's textile

industry. In 2009, Li brocade was inscribed on the first batch of UNESCO List

of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.

As one of the important activities of the Hainan Brocade and Embroidery World

Culture Week, with the "Brocade and Embroidery World" as the theme, the first

intangible cultural heritage traditional embroidery printing and dyeing art

exhibition in 2022 launched in Haikou. Many excellent intangible cultural

heritage projects gathered here from all over China, such as the Zhuangjin

(Zhuang brocade) technique, the skills of fish-skin production of Heze ethic

group, and Songjin (Song brocade) weaving skills. The representative inheritors

of intangible cultural heritage live show performances attracted many citizens

and tourists to watch and participate actively in the experience.

In addition, the Hainan Brocade and Embroidery World Culture Week also held a

series of activities, such as the Hainan Brocade and Embroidery World Culture

Week Promotion Conference, the Second Hainan Creative Design Exhibition of

Excellent Clothing With Patterns of Li and Miao Ethic Group in 2022, to further

promote the excellent traditional culture of Hainan Free Trade Port.

According to the introduction, this culture week, with "inheritance, innovation

and to co-create a brocade and embroidery world" as the theme, with Lijin (Li

brocade) culture as its core, through fashion performance, boutique exhibitions

and other forms to show the charm of brocade and embroidery culture, boosts the

construction of Hainan as the centre of international tourism and consumption.

Source: Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports of Hainan

Province

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