The old couple spent 5 years embroidering the river map of Qingming with more than 40 needles.
Sichuan online news (reporter Wu Yafei) free time, many people will embroider cross embroidery time, in Mount Emei city of Guihua bridge, There is a couple of old wives who take the cross stitch as their own "cause". It takes more than 5 years to make a 6 meter long "Qingming River map" with a needle and thread.
Zhang Zhihuang and Yu Kuiying are a pair of "cross stitch enthusiasts". In 2011, they bought this cross stitch picture "Qingming Shanghe". In 2013, after Uncle Zhang retired, he began to stitch slowly, and the couple worked together. With more than 40 embroidery needles and 79 color lines, the works were completed in Meishan, Xichang and Chengdu for 5 years.
"Qingming Shanghe" depicts the prosperity of Bian Jing in the Northern Song Dynasty by meticulously depicting the market life. The city bridge passes through the Guo, the boat boat Che Xuan, the scene is grand, the character is numerous, depicts the fine and subtle, and Embroiders it as the embroidery work, this difficulty can imagine.
according to Mr. Zhang, this cross stitch is different from what we usually see, its floor is blank, and before embroidery there is a drawing procedure. And after embroidery, the outline must be put in order to make the work look lifelike.