The moonlight in the Linchuan dyehouse always smells of madder.
As soon as the bird's-gold embroidery thread on Lin Yun's fingertips wrapped around Xie Qingyan's wrist, he grabbed it with his backhand - the water transport diagram floating in the dye vat was glowing with silver, and the sail of the third ship was dyed with a tiny word "death" in crimson blood.
"The salt merchant's silver ship is hidden in the reeds." When he lowered his head, the dyed thread burned red marks on her palms. "But what is more deadly than the silver ship is the secret letter in your father's study."
The gold bracelet suddenly became hot, and the word "broken" on the inside made her bones ache. The "Bingdilian" in my mother's embroidery book ten years ago, the word "Yun" carved on the beams and pillars of the dyeing workshop, the faded gold thread on Xie Qingyan's left finger... These broken beads were finally strung into threads by the firelight of the water transport terminal.
She used needles as blades to embroider poison into Yuanyang's eyes; he used dye as armor to let the crimson blood show off the stolen silver and rust. When the brocade embroidery encounters the ancient dyeing method of three steaming and three drying, should the needle be threaded or the thread should be tied to the needle?
"They say that bird gold embroidery can lock the soul," Lin Yun looked at the reflection in his dye vat and chuckled, "but I insist on using it to embroider the freedom of two people."
(An independent new chapter with the same world view, the intangible cultural heritage of dyeing and embroidery in the Ming Dynasty is the bones, and the intrigues and emotions hidden in the stitches and dye marks.)
The idea: Based on the intangible cultural heritage skills of Ming Dynasty dyeing and embroidery, using the golden threads of sparrow embroidery and the blood-stained red marks, it connects the individual's resistance to the shackles of the clan, the integrity and innovation in the inheritance of skills, and the symbiotic redemption in the whirlpool of intrigues. It not only writes about the game between needle and thread - the embroiderer uses needles to hide secret messages, and the dyer uses dye to solve the conspiracy, but also writes about the struggle between people and the times: when feudal ethics regarded skills as "female red shackles", the protagonist used needles as blades and dyeing as conspiracy. In the case of shipping silver and the conspiracy of salt merchants, the intangible cultural heritage was sublimated from a survival tool to the power to break the shackles, and finally completed the battle in the combined skill of "golden threads to twine and dye threads" The dual annotation of "freedom" and "inheritance".