Technique and cultural characteristics of Zuoqun made by the folk women in Sudong region of rivers and lakes

The authors took of Sudong region of rivers and lakes as the range of research, and Zuoqun collected in the folk costume museum of Jiangnan University as the object to the reasons of Zuoqun stitching, the pleats technology of "folding it while seaming it", and the special process of "fold embroidery stitch" through visiting the local clothing craft inheritors, recording both images and texts of the cutting and sewing techniques narrated and demonstrated by the inheritors, and restoring the material object. On the one hand, from the perspectives of practicability, aesthetics, needlework technology, the "rice culture" connotation of Zuoqun technology was summarized. On the other hand, through comparing the structure, shape and making skills of skirts in Central Plains, the intangible cultural heritage characteristics of "uniqueness" and "regionalism" were highlighted. The comparison of production techniques and creation ideas of the local clothing technology inheritors in Shengpu reflected the intangible cultural heritage characteristics of "stability" and "active state".