Craftswoman commercializes Manchu embroidery to help impoverished rural women

Yang has created nearly 1,000 Manchu embroidery artworks in the past years, winning a number of awards.

Things happened unexpectedly. Yang got seriously ill and had to stay in bed for four years.

"I did not fear death, but I was worried that the skills of Manchu embroidery that have lasted for hundreds of years would be lost," Yang said.

She made up her mind that she would introduce Manchu embroidery to more people, so they could learn and inherit the skills of making Manchu embroidery.

At the beginning of 2017, Yang sadly found that few people mastered the skills of making Manchu embroidery, and she worried the Manchu embroidery culture was about to disappear.