Leishan, a unique ethnic group living in the depths of the jungles of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, they have learned a custom from generation to generation, replacing all the property in the house with the silver of white flowers, putting them into the furnace, forging them into silk, compiling flowers, engraving Ready to wear. a nation that worships silver Leishan County, Guizhou Province, southwest of China, a unique ethnic group living in the depths of the jungles of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. They have learned a custom from generation to generation, replacing all the property in the house with the silver of white flowers, putting them into the furnace and forging them into silk. Prepare flowers and engrave ready-to-wear. Silver flower, silver bell, silver collar, silver cap, the silver dress of the Miao female body can weigh two or thirty pounds. For hundreds of years, why did silver become a symbol of a nation? Why do the Miao people use silver to wrap themselves? Together with the silversmith master Yang Wenbin, the Chinese memory crew came to the Qianhu Miao Village in Leishan County, Guizhou Province. The mountain road was very bumpy. We walked for 20 and a half hours on the mountain road for only three and a half hours before we came to the only silversmith village in China, Zhibai Village, Leishan County. Every family in Miaoshan County has a silver collection in almost every family. It is said that every Miao Nian Festival, the Miao women dressed in silver, the item wearing a few silver flowers and silver collars drowning mouth and nose, with a large silver lock on the chest, wearing a pair of different styles of silver bracelets, they are better than who to test The silver is the heaviest, who is the biggest, who is the most, and the winner will be the target of all the boys on the reed field. However, Yang Guangbin believes that beauty is not the direct reason why Miao people like silver jewelry. Pursuing the secret behind silver jewelry The Miao people worship silver jewelry so much, but the Guizhou area where they live is not a silver producing area. So where did such a large amount of silver get? More than 200 Miao and his family members living in the village of Zhibai have migrated from the Lancang River more than 400 years ago. The frequent commercial trade has enabled the Miao people to have silver materials. The Miao people migrated all the year round, and they were wandering, so they liked to wear all the wealth on their bodies, and people walked with them; they used money as a hedge property. This may be the direct cause of the good silver of the Miao people. In addition, there is a very important point, that is, the functional role of silver jewelry. Yang Wenbin told us that the silver jewelry of the Miao people can avoid evil and can also be poisoned to prevent plague. There is a big maple tree in the village. The locals told us that this is the Baozhai tree. The Miao folk song said inside, the butterfly came out of the maple tree, fell in love with the blisters, and gave birth to twelve eggs. After hatching eggs for 12 years, they hatched the ancestors of the Miao people, Jiang Yang, cattle, donkeys, etc., so it is the god tree of the Miao worship. Legend has it that the mother of butterflies is the common ancestor of the Miao people. A Miao old man kept a set of Xijiang's earliest silver headdress, and the butterfly jade hook on it was the best witness. In today's Hmong batik we also saw the butterfly's style, the Miao people believe that "Butterfly Mother" is the common ancestor of all Miao people. If there is any text, the Miao people’s deep confession will surely merge into an epic. But the Miao people, like all the people without words, can only pour their memories into white silver jewelry. Ancient silver craft The silversmiths in the village of Baibai are generally inheriting their father's business. They have been inherited from generation to generation, and their craftsmanship is rarely circulated. Yang Guangbin is the fifth generation of the Yang family. His silver jewelry craftsmanship is good and fine. He is preparing to build a silver horn. First, the silver block should be made into 26 mm, as fine as white hair. This meticulous work hurts vision. Master Yang said that he was wearing reading glasses when he was 37 years old. There is no template for the engraved pattern. The clogs and chopping boards are all his tools. The fineness of the craft depends on the pictures in the heart and the numbers in the hands. Then make a butterfly silver flower. A silver horn is required to be welded with 203 silver flowers, and each piece is hand-made and welded a little. Yang Guangbin said that the silver flower prepared with silver wire has a soldering liquid, and then welded with a blowpipe, the firepower is mild, so that the welded product has no obvious solder joints, and the silver jewelry is natural. The impact of white copper: to fake In the street of ethnic crafts in Kaili City, where the Southeast State Prefecture is located, we found that the silver jewelry here looks black. Yang Guangbin told us that this is a kind of tourist goods, using zinc white copper, not silver, but silver plating, the price is very cheap. A set of copper ornaments is only a thousand yuan, while a full set of silver jewelry is 12,000 yuan. So many silversmiths have come out of the Silversmith Village to make their own living. Yang Wenbin is very worried that the popularity of tourism products is the time when the Miao memory disappears. Yang Guangbin knows that the Miao silver jewelry forging technique has been included in the list of China's intangible cultural heritage protection in 2006. He began to have the idea that the artist who adhered to the silversmith village became a master craftsman and called for more silversmiths to go back to the village forging. Miao silver. Can the white silver dress continue to shine through the generations of Miao people living in the depths of the mountains? Jiangyin Yiqifeiyang Apparel Co., Ltd. , https://www.jyyqfy.com