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Panxiu Embroidery of Tu ethnic group

2008-08-01 08:16:17 GMT2008-08-01 16:16:17 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English

Photo taken on July 31, 2008 shows part of the giant handiwork of Panxiu Embroidery of the Tu ethnic group in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Hou Deqiang)

Huang Lansuo (L) and her friend pose with the giant handiwork of Panxiu Embroidery of the Tu ethnic group in Beijing, capital of China, on July 31, 2008.(Xinhua/Hou Deqiang)

Huang Lansuo poses with the giant handiwork of Panxiu Embroidery of the Tu ethnic group in Beijing, capital of China, on July 31, 2008.(Xinhua/Hou Deqiang)

Photo taken on July 31, 2008 shows part of the giant handiwork of Panxiu Embroidery of the Tu ethnic group in Beijing, capital of China.(Xinhua/Hou Deqiang)

Huang Lansuo shows her skill of Panxiu Embroidery of the Tu ethnic group in Beijing, capital of China, on July 31, 2008. (Xinhua/Hou Deqiang)

With the Olympic dreams, 30-year-old Huang Lansuo came to Beijing all the way from her home in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Huzhu Tu Autonomous County of northwest China's Qinghai Province, bringing her proud gift to the world, a 10-meter-long handiwork of Panxiu Embroidery of the Tu ethnic group.

The delicate work, with lifelike characters of animals and plants on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and dancing scene of China's 56 ethnic groups, plus with the symbol of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games emblem "Chinese Seal", mascot "Fuwa" and the Olympic Rings, was embroidered by some 160 women led by Huang Lansuo of the Tu ethnic group to express their best wishes to the Beijing Olympic Games.

As one of the Chinese national intangible cultural heritages, Panxiu Embroidery is a unique handicraft by the Tu ethnic group for its dainty and complicated technique and profound history of the group, and inherited generation by generation among the Tu women.

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