# Jing Embroidery Inheritor Liang Shuping: Preserving a Century-Old Craft

This video profiles Liang Shuping, a fourth-generation inheritor of Dingxing Jing embroidery, also known as palace embroidery. It explores the history, rigorous technical demands, and complex production stages of the craft, including a major restoration project for Beijing's Palace Museum. Liang also reflects on over four decades of mentoring artisans and teaching at universities to keep the intangible cultural heritage alive.

> Source: 京绣传承人梁淑平：40年坚守冀百年技艺后继有人
> Length: 2 min 22 s
> Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh0GGD3XIeo
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## Origins and Lineage of Dingxing Jing Embroidery (~00:00)

According to the report, jing embroidery (also called palace embroidery) is an ancient Chinese traditional embroidery craft centered around Beijing, flourishing particularly during the Ming and Qing dynasties for imperial garments and palace decoration. Dingxing Jing embroidery in Hebei is a recognized branch with over a century of family transmission originating from craftsman Liang Zhi of Nanda Niu Village. Liang Shuping is its fourth-generation representative inheritor. In 2014, Dingxing Jing embroidery was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.

## Training Discipline and Technical Demands (~00:37)

According to the report, liang began managing embroidery work with her father during her teens and started training apprentices independently in 1979. Traditional apprentice training requires beginners to practice basic needlework on scrap fabric for three months, developing the two-handed coordination necessary to pierce the fabric evenly from above and below before being permitted to stitch on real silk. Needle pricks are common during this stage.

## Production Process and Palace Museum Restoration (~01:14)

According to the report, a finished piece of Jing embroidery requires over a dozen steps, including design, template drafting, drawing, and perforating, utilizing dozens of distinct needle techniques. In 2000, the Palace Museum engaged Liang Shuping to replicate wedding textiles for the Palace of Earthly Tranquility (Kunning Palace), including ceremonial canopies, curtains, and imperial dragon robes. Leading more than a hundred embroiderers, Liang completed the extensive project over three years.

## Needlework Aesthetics and Long-Term Preservation (~01:36)

Liang describes Jing embroidery as valuing neatness, flatness and brightness, with numerous needlework techniques. Around 01:59 she estimates that embroidering the displayed dragon robe alone would take over 500 days. The report and source description credit her with teaching more than 2,000 apprentices, training her children as successors, and teaching university students.

## To verify

- This document records what the video says; it has not been independently fact-checked.
- Historical dates, apprentice counts, project scale and time estimates are attributed to the report or interviewee and have not been independently fact-checked. Needlework terms were not individually verified, and no embroidery procedure is reconstructed.

## Source and license

Original video: [京绣传承人梁淑平：40年坚守冀百年技艺后继有人](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh0GGD3XIeo)

Creator: 中国新闻网 · 梁淑平

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