The UNESCO Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage deliberated and approved the transfer of China's "traditional weaving, dyeing and embroidery skills of the Li ethnic Group" from the "Intangible Cultural Heritage List in Urgent Need of Protection" to the "Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity". This historic leap marks that Li Brocade, a treasure of the Li nationality in Hainan, has been widely recognized and respected by the international community. This is not only the affirmation of the cultural value of Li brocade, but also the praise of the wisdom and creativity of the Li people. Li brocade, a skill that spans thousands of years, has once again become the focus of global attention. Now, let's unravel the mystery of Li Brocade and explore its glorious history and modern inheritance.

Li Jin: a cultural treasure precipitated by time

"Li Nationality traditional spinning, dyeing and embroidery" is a set of ancient and exquisite spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills used by Li nationality people in Hainan when making clothing and quilt articles. Each process contains the wisdom and skills of Li nationality women. This technique has a history of about 3,000 years, which is one of the oldest cotton spinning and dyeing techniques in China and even in the world.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the Li people knew how to use kapok fiber to spin clothes. In the Western Han Dynasty, the exquisite "wide cloth" made by the Li people in Hainan was regarded as a "gift" treasure by the Central Dynasty. During The Three Kingdoms period, the ancestors of Li nationality had already made "five-color striped cloth" with Jibei.

In the Song Dynasty, the Li textile technology had reached a very high level, weaving fine characters, mixed flowers, especially skillful. Huang Daopo, a textile expert in Yuan Dynasty, went to Hainan early to learn cotton textile technology from the Li people, integrated the strengths of the Li and Han textile technology, and became an excellent textile expert, and carried his skills back to his hometown of Songjiang Wujing (today's Huajing Town in Shanghai). In the Ming Dynasty, the Li people took the color silk and Jibei from the Han color silk and woven them into brocade. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the poet Huang Zongyan wrote a poem in praise: "Do not raise sericulture, do not plant cotton, weave to Ji bei Jin Wen Lian." A total of Li woman today more than skillful, far beyond the pearl cliff into Han years." In the Qing Dynasty, Li brocade was known as "Machine Zhu Seiko, hundred Hui thousand Hua" and was a treasure in cotton fabrics.

In 2009, the "traditional spinning, dyeing and embroidery skills of the Li nationality" was included in the "Intangible Cultural Heritage List in Urgent need of protection" by UNESCO, ranking among the world-class intangible cultural heritage. The traditional spinning, dyeing and embroidery skills of the Li ethnic group are mainly spread in the inhabited areas of the Li ethnic group in the central and southern part of Hainan Island, and were included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006.

Lingshui: Cultural inheritance and innovative development Lingshui Li Autonomous County actively promotes the inheritance and innovation of Li brocade culture, combines the traditional charm of Li brocade with the modern aesthetic, and makes Li brocade art catch fire and pass on through a series of activities.

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