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20TH CENTURY CHINESE XIANG EMBROIDERY, depicting the immortals, hand embroidered in seventeen colours, with a red Xiang embroidery chop mark, framed and under glass, 67cm x 141cm overall Note: Hunan embroidery, or Xiang embroidery, is one of the traditional folk arts of China, together with Suzhou embroidery, Sichuan embroidery, and Cantonese embroidery. Xiang embroidery is regarded among the four most distinguished embroidery styles in China. It is a general name for the embroidery products which rise from and are mostly produced at Changsha, Hunan, with distinct characteristics of Chu culture. Hunan embroidery is particularly famous in embroidering with silk thread, and the patterns have a high sense of reality. In 2006, Hunan embroidery was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.