Xiuniang Silk – Building a Leading Chinese Silk & Embroidery Cultural Brand
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Qi Qiulan
Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritor of Xiuniang Silk
  • Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Cocoon and Silk Industry
  • Ambassador for Promotion of China's Textile Intangible Cultural Heritage
  • National March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter
  • Leader of Time-Honored Enterprises in Jiangsu Province
  • Vice President of Suzhou Female Entrepreneurs Association
Qi Qiulan
Intangible Cultural Heritage Skills
As a crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, silk has shone brightly in the warp and weft of five thousand years of civilization. As one of China's Four Famous Embroideries, Suzhou embroidery carries the profound heritage of Jiangnan culture and embodies the unique elegance of its literary tradition, with its craftsmanship characteristics of "exquisiteness, delicacy, elegance and purity" highly compatible with the natural soft beauty of silk. Xiuniang Silk is rooted in the inheritance of Suzhou embroidery intangible cultural heritage, innovatively integrates fashion aesthetics, builds an art and cultural brand from a global perspective, and achieves value resonance and cultural advancement in silk consumption.
Five Generations of Inheritance
With a century of family legacy, we carry forward Suzhou's millennia-old culture and bring traditional Chinese silk and Suzhou embroidery into modern life.
Through exquisite Suzhou embroidery craftsmanship, we revive the Oriental aesthetic lifestyle.
The First Generation Inheritor
Second Generation Inheritor
Third Generation Inheritor
Fourth Generation Inheritor
Fifth Generation Inheritor

The First Generation Inheritor

Gu Yunjun 1896
Direct descendant of "Luxiangyuan Gu Embroidery". Founded the "Xiuniang" brand on Fengmen Heng Street during the Guangxu Reign.

Second Generation Inheritor

Gu Jinmu
Second-generation inheritor of Xiuniang Silk in 1930. He integrated Suzhou’s local characteristics into Gu Embroidery, making Xiuniang Embroidery Studio a renowned one in Suzhou.

Third Generation Inheritor

Gu Jinyuan 1966
Third-generation inheritor of Xiuniang Silk, Master of Suzhou Embroidery Craft

Fourth Generation Inheritor

Qi Qiulan 1988
Fourth-generation inheritor of Xiuniang Silk. Devoted her life to the development and inheritance of China's silk industry, taking the promotion of Chinese silk culture as her mission. Inspired by silk culture and dedicated to weaving and embroidery art.

Fifth Generation Inheritor

Xu Ting 2012
Fifth-generation inheritor of Xiuniang Silk. Master's graduate from the University of Oxford, he returned to China resolutely in 2011 to devote himself to the inheritance and industrial innovation of Jiangnan silk culture, leading the century-old Xiuniang Silk toward internationalization.
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