Beijing Juan Hua，also known as the silk flower, first originated in Chongwenmenwai flower market, is a traditional art of color tying in Beijing. During the High Qing era, there were many flower markets and stores in the Chongwenmenwai area, and most of the surrounding households were in the business of making silk flowers. As a result, a large-scale service of making and selling silk flowers was gradually formed here. This area thus became the distribution center of silk flowers, known as the "flower market", which is still in use today. 

The process of making a silk flower requires silk, silk twill, silk habotai, silk paj, silk satin as raw materials, and goes through procedures such as paste-making, chiseling, dyeing, molding, sticking and packaging. The finished products are exquisite, realistic and have unique ornamental value. At present, under the influence of the times, the silk flower industry is extremely depressed. With the closure of the Beijing Silk Flower Factory and the mastery of silk flower-making skills of few artists, the once famous Beijing silk flower art is facing an extinction, which urgently need to be saved.

Translator: ZHAO Huinan