Ilan is a museum. 11 "─ Rambo, the spring flower of Chen Huimei, wishes to bloom."

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"I am a child of Yilan, and the roots of Chunzai Flower are in Yilan. I must find a place in Yilan to let the villagers and more people know about it." It is because of this determination and perseverance that Chen Huimei said she was really happy to be able to launch in her hometown Lanyang Museum. Chen Huimei is the first person to preserve Taiwan's intangible cultural asset "Entangling Flower Craft (Spring Flower)". On October 18, at the opening day of the exhibition "Blessing in Bloom-Chen Huimei's Entangling Flower World" at the Lanyang Museum, the 70-year-old warmly and firmly expressed her enthusiasm for inheriting and promoting folk traditional crafts.

Chen Huimei, the first person to preserve the intangible cultural assets of Taiwan,"entwined flower craft."

The first person to preserve Taiwan's intangible cultural assets "flower wrapping craft" Twenty years ago, Chen Huimei met Grandma Hsieh Chen Aiyu, who was 90 years old at the time, and learned the flower wrapping technique from her. Miss Chen fell in love with this little red flower because of its delicacy, and because after contact, she deeply felt that this was our own traditional living culture, but it gradually disappeared due to the change of the environment. It was really a pity.

From then on, Chen Huimei plunged headlong into her studies and research. Not only did she learn from her teacher, Grandma Aiyu, but she later met another Grandma Tsai Hsieh-ying, who also saw Hakka entwined flowers from folk collectors, and later collected flowers from Kinmen, etc. Finally, she merged the two major Hakka techniques into one. Not only did she create and teach, she also named all the techniques and parts, organized and systematized the production steps, and published them in a book, hoping to expand their dissemination and circulation.

Chen Huimei's works

Chen Huimei became the first person to preserve the intangible cultural assets of Taiwan,"entwined flower craft," precisely because she has the artistic, special and exquisite skills of entwined flower craft, and the common people's life etiquette, showing the aesthetics of common people's life, in addition to retaining tradition and combining modern creativity, simple to show the value of exquisite art and craft, won the preservation and registration.

Blessing and Prayer of Entwined Flower (Spring Flower)

entwined flowers are a traditional handicraft of early taiwan folk culture, combining paper-cutting, entwining, and embroidery techniques. in southern fujian entwined flowers are called "spring flowers," a homonym of the taiwanese word for "leftover," and are used to pray for a good omen of "surplus year." "Chunzi flower" is generally used for auspicious occasions, especially in the traditional marriage has an important role, each Chunzi flower contains "blessing, Lu, Shou","many children and grandchildren","a hundred years of good marriage" and other auspicious prayers, can be said to be with "blessing" flowers.