photo source: light picture, photographer: Yang Daifu
2016 year February 19th, in Liping County, Guizhou province Dong pin yuan traditional technology farmer professional cooperative, Lu Yong Mei (right) and colleagues discuss the pattern of the homespun wax painting. This year's 33 year old indigo dyed inheritor Lu Yong Mei is a young Dong nationality woman with a dream of starting an undertaking in Liping County of Guizhou province. Influenced by the traditional hand culture, such as indigo dyeing, weaving, embroidery and so on, I was fascinated by traditional handcrafts such as indigo dyeing under the guidance of my family.
to inherit the handicraft of indigo indigo dyeing and so on, to increase the income of Dong minority women who are engaged in indigo dyeing and embroidery. In 2014, under the support of the local government, Lu Yong Mei established the farmer's professional cooperative of the traditional craft of Dong Dong, Liping County. The Dong Dong women were trained in skills upgrading, and at the same time developed a long lost Dong bean dyeing technology and a variety of pure plant color dyeing.