A
ambassador of international art communication,
Lu Huiqing |
Lu Huiqing, was
born in 1957, come from Yanjia Village, Nanzhai Township, QIanyang County.
She didn’t go to school; stay at home to learn embroidery, paper-cut from
her mother when she was young. Her works were made for the local festivals,
weddings, birthday and other folk activities with full moon at the
beginning. It can be said that it is a kind of custom in the local, every
household will hang some cloth, paper cutting or embroidery, it is a symbol
of good luck, and it can expel evil, bless the family safe and bless the
longevity of the elderly. Even though she had no knowledge, she also can
make the five elements gossip these China philosophy things, and put these
things in a very ordinary embroidery, cloth and paper cutting. The woman who
just has a baby should put a cloth frog on the head of the bed, and it
should be embroidered with” five poison animals”, the frog represents the
pregnant woman, five poison animals (snake, spider, scorpion, centipede and
toad) represents immunity to all poisons, the purpose is to protect the
heath of child and mother.
Lu Huiqing’s works are with strong
life characteristics and home characteristics, embroidery cloth is produced
a total of more than 200 varieties, the most representative is the "Wudu
Bagua mirror", "twelve zodiac gossip" and "Wudu vest", "Wu Fu Feng Shou"
etc.. Her creation originates in the countryside and comes from life, such
as the pendant of Pisces, which means that having more than need every
year. It can be said that
every pendant contains good blessings, or from ancient folk tales...
Lu Huiqing’s
embroidery, cloth and other paper-cut works are vivid, exaggerated,
and with fine workmanship, color collocation is exquisite and imaginative;
her paper-cut works are skillful, she even does not need draft and cut it
directly, so it forms a very unique personal style. In 1984, her paper-cut
works "Sun Bird", "Zodiac signs" got the first prize in the city of Baoji
paper-cut exhibition; in 1987, embroidery fabric works "Wudu frog pillow", "Wudu
Bagua mirror" and "Wudu vest" won the first, second and third prize in
twenty-first national tourist souvenirs competition; in 1998, the creation
of "big lion" was selected for posting printed posters by the French&Chinese
Culture Festival". She had ever gone to show in France, America, Germany,
Australia and other countries with the Chinese cultural team, and won a wide
range of international reputations. However, even though she has a highly
praised by domestic and foreign experts and scholars, she is illiterate; but
because she can't read, so her creation is the most original.
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