卢菊英的个人简介
卢菊英，1950年生于太湖之滨镇湖镇，苏绣大师，江苏省工艺美术名人。
个人经历
卢菊英，1950年生于太湖之滨镇湖镇。镇湖是在苏州市西面，路程也就几十公里，现在从苏州市到镇湖开车也就半个钟。可是在卢菊英小的时候，要去苏州可不是容易的事，当时没有公路，要大人摇船沿着弯弯曲曲的小河走上大半天。虽然离苏州很“遥远”，但是小镇还是受到苏州文化的熏陶，刺绣就是当地人维持生计的一种技艺，好的苏绣作品被直接送到北京城。卢菊英生在这个充满诗情画意的江南水乡，从小就喜爱刺绣，跟随长辈学习苏绣技术。卢菊英心灵手巧，小小年纪就绣出好作品，在苏州市都有了名气。苏绣大师顾文霞，王祖识也很喜欢这个乡下小姑娘，亲自传授苏绣技法。卢菊英得到大师真传，苏绣水平来了一个大飞跃。远在上海，北京的苏绣商人专程来镇湖买卢菊英的作品。
卢菊英致富不忘家乡的姐妹，利用自己的名气和销售渠道，把镇湖苏绣带到苏州，上海，北京，南京，杭州和广州等大城市。卢菊英还培养了大批苏绣人才。象比较有名的后起之秀有：卢梅红，姚建萍，朱寿珍，王丽华，卢福英等等。当地政府专门颁发奖状给卢菊英，表彰她是“勤劳致富的带头人”。
改革开放的春风吹遍大江南北，广东和香港客商也邀请卢菊英，卢梅红母女来办苏绣展销，这一时期，卢菊英的很多优秀作品被当地买家收藏。但是，留在当年的小姑娘卢梅红心中的痛，是被无良港商骗走苏绣精品的惨痛经历。“一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳”，卢菊英和卢梅红再次来到深圳，已是过了十年之后的事情。卢菊英卢梅红是应深圳国际文化产业博览会邀请，展销自己的苏绣作品。
2016年12月30日授予第六届“江苏省工艺美术名人”荣誉称号。
媒体报到
卢菊英名气大了，中央的报纸也来采访，下面是刊载《人民日报》的文章：本报讯：江南水乡妇女的心灵手巧在苏州吴县镇湖镇8000绣女的身上得到了充分体现。她们把绘画艺术融入传统的苏绣工艺之中，不断推陈出新，使传统手工艺在市场经济时代大放光彩。
每年，全镇绣品收入上亿元，还为国家换来了大量外汇。镇湖镇坐落在江南太湖之滨，是我国四大名绣之一，苏绣的主要发源地和产地。全镇只有2万人口，从事刺绣的绣女却有8000人，历来是“家家有绣女，户户有绣棚”。早在春秋时期，这里就有刺绣的记载，宋代后，绣女们就为宫廷绣制龙袍，从此便有“稚童皆绣凤，老妪亦刺龙”之说。
改革开放以来，镇里成立了刺绣协会和刺绣研究会，在组织绣女创新针法的同时，学习绘画艺术，把绘画与刺绣有机结合起来，使绣品从原来的飞禽走兽、百花异草发展到高难度的风景山水和人物肖像。
苏绣一带宗师沈寿的第四代弟子卢菊英，开发出了乱针绣品，为镇湖绣品走出国门打下了基础。（周澜源）《人民日报》(1999年11月12日第2版)
现在到苏州游览，除了美丽的苏州园林，太湖边的绣品一条街也是一个不可错过的景点。在镇湖苏绣博物馆，有一个镇馆之宝，就是卢菊英的双面绣红木屏风《金陵十二钗》。
卢菊英是中国有名的民间苏绣大师，作品获奖无数，人民大会堂，外交部都有卢菊英作品陈列，或者作为国家礼品赠送国际友人。60岁的卢菊英，仍然宝刀不老，每年都有新作品问世。
Master of Suzhou Embroidery Lu Juying
Lu Juying was born in Zhenhu Town by Tai Lake in 1950, which is located in the west of Suzhou, with a journey of dozens of kilometers, and it will take half an hour from Zhenhu to Suzhou now. But it was not easy to go to Suzhou when Lu Juying was a little girl, because no highway was available at that time, and the people had to rock the boat along the snaky river, typically which will last most of the day every time. The small town was still influenced by Suzhou culture although it is far away from it, and Suzhou Embroidery was a kind of skill for the local to make a living, even the good products were sent to Beijing directly. Lu Juying grew up in this beautiful town of the lower reaches of Yangtze River, she has always loved embroidery since she was a little kid, so she learned Suzhou Embroidery from her elders.
Lu Juying was ingenious and she could embroider the good products at any early age, which wins the fame for her in Suzhou. Master of Suzhou Embroidery Gu Wenxia and Wang Zhushi also liked her very much and personally taught Suzhou Embroidery skills to her. So embroidery level of Lu Juying was greatly improved after she got the real essence from the two masters. And the merchants of Suzhou Embroidery from Shanghai and Beijing also specially come to Zhenhu to buy her products.
But Lu Juying didnu2019t forget her native sisters after she became rich, she introduced Zhenhu embroidery to the large cities such as Suzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou by means of her fame and marketing channel. In addition, she also has cultivated a group of talents in Suzhou Embroidery, including the famous rising stars: Lu Meihong,, etc. The local government specially issued the Letter of Commendation to Lu Juying, praising her to be a hard-working leader of rich.
The trends of reform and opening were spread everyway, the guests from Guangdong and Hong Kong also invited Lu Juying and Lu Meihong to hold Suzhou embroidery exhibition. During this period, many excellent products of Lu Juying were collected by the local buyers. But the sadness left in the little girl Lu Meihong was that their exquisite Suzhou Embroidery products were stolen by the unscrupulous Hong Kong businessmen. A burnt child dreads the fire. Ten years later, Lu Juying and Lu Hongmei came to Shenzhen again with an invitation from Shenzhen International Cultural Industry Fair.
Lu Juying became a well-known person, even the newspaper from the Central had an interview with her. The following is an article published on Peopleu2019s Daily:
Peopleu2019s Daily: Ingenuity of the women from the lower reaches of Yangtze River is fully embodied by 8000 female embroidery workers of Zhenhu Town of Wuxian, Suzhou. They emerge the art of painting into the traditional Suzhou Embroidery technique, and continue to create the new products, making the traditional handicraft play its own role in the market economy times. Income of the embroidery products of the town reaches more than one billion Yuan every year, also a large amount of foreign currency is obtained.
Zhenhu Town is located beside Tai Lake, which is the major birthplace and production place of Suzhou Embroidery, one of the four most famous embroideries of China. There is only a population of more than 20,000 in the town, but 8000 women are engaged in embroidery. A saying like Each family has the female embroider workers and embroidery workshop lasted here for a long time. Early in the Spring and Autumn Period, embroidery here was recorded. After Song Dynasty, the female embroidery workers embroidered the dragon robes for the royal, hence all the little girls do phoenix embroidery and the old women do the dragon embroidery was come down from generation to generation.
Embroidery Association and Embroidery Research Society were established by the town since the reform and opening to outside, to organize the female embroidery workers to create the new technique, also study the art of painting for the purpose of organically combining the painting with embroidery, which makes the embroidery products to be developed from the original birds & animals and all sorts of flowers to the landscape & portraits highly difficult. The fourth generation of the master of Suzhou Embroidery Shen Shou has developed the crewed embroidery, which laid the basis for Zhenhu embroidery to venture the overseas. (Zhou Lanyuan, from Peopleu2019s Daily, 2nd edition of Nov. 12, 1999)
At present for the sightseeing in Suzhou, a street of embroidery products beside Tai Lake also is a scenic spot canu2019t miss besides the beautiful Suzhou Gardens. In Suzhou Embroidery Museum of Zhenhu, two-sided embroidered redwood screen Twelve Girls of Jinling from Lu Juying is considered as its valuable treasure.
As the famous folk master of Suzhou Embroidery of China, innumerable products of Lu Juying are prized. And her products are displayed in Great Hall of the People and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or presented to the international friends as the state gift. Lu Juying is 60 this year, but she is still vigorous in mind and body.
