盧菊英，1950年生于太湖之濱鎮(zhèn)湖鎮(zhèn)。鎮(zhèn)湖是在蘇州市西面，路程也就幾十公里，現(xiàn)在從蘇州市到鎮(zhèn)湖開(kāi)車(chē)也就半個(gè)鐘�？墒窃诒R菊英小的時(shí)候，要去蘇州可不是容易的事，當(dāng)時(shí)沒(méi)有公路，要大人搖船沿著彎彎曲曲的小河走上大半天。雖然離蘇州很“遙遠(yuǎn)”，但是小鎮(zhèn)還是受到蘇州文化的熏陶，刺繡就是當(dāng)?shù)厝司S持生計(jì)的一種技藝，好的蘇繡作品被直接送到北京城。盧菊英生在這個(gè)充滿詩(shī)情畫(huà)意的江南水鄉(xiāng)，從小就喜愛(ài)刺繡，跟隨長(zhǎng)輩學(xué)習(xí)蘇繡技術(shù)。盧菊英心靈手巧，小小年紀(jì)就繡出好作品，在蘇州市都有了名氣。蘇繡大師顧文霞，王祖識(shí)也很喜歡這個(gè)鄉(xiāng)下小姑娘，親自傳授蘇繡技法。盧菊英得到大師真?zhèn)�，蘇繡水平來(lái)了一個(gè)大飛躍。遠(yuǎn)在上海，北京的蘇繡商人專(zhuān)程來(lái)鎮(zhèn)湖買(mǎi)盧菊英的作品。

盧菊英致富不忘家鄉(xiāng)的姐妹，利用自己的名氣和銷(xiāo)售渠道，把鎮(zhèn)湖蘇繡帶到蘇州，上海，北京，南京，杭州和廣州等大城市。盧菊英還培養(yǎng)了大批蘇繡人才。象比較有名的后起之秀有：盧梅紅，姚建萍，朱壽珍，王麗華，盧福英等等。當(dāng)?shù)卣�府�?zhuān)門(mén)頒發(fā)獎(jiǎng)狀給盧菊英，表彰她是“勤勞致富的帶頭人”。

改革開(kāi)放的春風(fēng)吹遍大江南北，廣東和香港客商也邀請(qǐng)盧菊英，盧梅紅母女來(lái)辦蘇繡展銷(xiāo)，這一時(shí)期，盧菊英的很多優(yōu)秀作品被當(dāng)?shù)刭I(mǎi)家收藏。但是，留在當(dāng)年的小姑娘盧梅紅心中的痛，是被無(wú)良港商騙走蘇繡精品的慘痛經(jīng)歷。“一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩”，盧菊英和盧梅紅再次來(lái)到深圳，已是過(guò)了十年之后的事情。盧菊英盧梅紅是應(yīng)深圳國(guó)際文化產(chǎn)業(yè)博覽會(huì)邀請(qǐng)，展銷(xiāo)自己的蘇繡作品。

2016年12月30日授予第六屆“江蘇省工藝美術(shù)名人”榮譽(yù)稱(chēng)號(hào)。

盧菊英名氣大了，中央的報(bào)紙也來(lái)采訪，下面是刊載《人民日?qǐng)?bào)》的文章：本報(bào)訊：江南水鄉(xiāng)婦女的心靈手巧在蘇州吳縣鎮(zhèn)湖鎮(zhèn)8000繡女的身上得到了充分體現(xiàn)。她們把繪畫(huà)藝術(shù)融入傳統(tǒng)的蘇繡工藝之中，不斷推陳出新，使傳統(tǒng)手工藝在市場(chǎng)經(jīng)濟(jì)時(shí)代大放光彩。

每年，全鎮(zhèn)繡品收入上億元，還為國(guó)家換來(lái)了大量外匯。鎮(zhèn)湖鎮(zhèn)坐落在江南太湖之濱，是我國(guó)四大名繡之一，蘇繡的主要發(fā)源地和產(chǎn)地。全鎮(zhèn)只有2萬(wàn)人口，從事刺繡的繡女卻有8000人，歷來(lái)是“家家有繡女，戶戶有繡棚”。早在春秋時(shí)期，這里就有刺繡的記載，宋代后，繡女們就為宮廷繡制龍袍，從此便有“稚童皆繡鳳，老嫗亦刺龍”之說(shuō)。

改革開(kāi)放以來(lái)，鎮(zhèn)里成立了刺繡協(xié)會(huì)和刺繡研究會(huì)，在組織繡女創(chuàng)新針?lè)ǖ耐瑫r(shí)，學(xué)習(xí)繪畫(huà)藝術(shù)，把繪畫(huà)與刺繡有機(jī)結(jié)合起來(lái)，使繡品從原來(lái)的飛禽走獸、百花異草發(fā)展到高難度的風(fēng)景山水和人物肖像。

蘇繡一帶宗師沈壽的第四代弟子盧菊英，開(kāi)發(fā)出了亂針繡品，為鎮(zhèn)湖繡品走出國(guó)門(mén)打下了基礎(chǔ)。（周瀾源）《人民日?qǐng)?bào)》(1999年11月12日第2版)

現(xiàn)在到蘇州游覽，除了美麗的蘇州園林，太湖邊的繡品一條街也是一個(gè)不可錯(cuò)過(guò)的景點(diǎn)。在鎮(zhèn)湖蘇繡博物館，有一個(gè)鎮(zhèn)館之寶，就是盧菊英的雙面繡紅木屏風(fēng)《金陵十二釵》。

盧菊英是中國(guó)有名的民間蘇繡大師，作品獲獎(jiǎng)無(wú)數(shù)，人民大會(huì)堂，外交部都有盧菊英作品陳列，或者作為國(guó)家禮品贈(zèng)送國(guó)際友人。60歲的盧菊英，仍然寶刀不老，每年都有新作品問(wèn)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.