Su Embroidery: Su Embroidery is mainly produced in Suzhou of Jiangsu Province. Su Embroidery appeared in the period of Northern Song Dynasty. The theme of Su Embroidery is very wide. Its techniques include single face embroidery and unique double-face embroidery, which looks the same from either side. The representative work of Su Embroidery is "Cat".
Xiang Embroidery: Xiang Embroidery is mainly produced in Changsha of Hunan Province. Combining the merits of Su embroidery and Yue embroidery with local embroidery, Xiang embroidery came into being in the later period of the Qing dynasty. The representative of Xiang Embroidery are lions and tigers.
So there is a saying of "Su cat and Xiang tiger".

Yue Embroidery: Yue Embroidery is mainly produced in Guangdong Province in the southern part of China. It is also called for Cantonese Embroidery for its hometown. It is said that the Yue Embroidery was created by a minority people in the middle the Ming dynasty. A variety of threads are used, including thread twisted from the peacock quill and down thread from the horsetail. The whole piece is bright in color with gold thread as the contour for embroidering complicated patterns, looking splendid. The representative of Yue Embroidery is A Hundred Birds Displaying Homage to The Phoenix.

Shu Embroidery: Shu Embroidery is mainly produced in Sichuan Province. The Shu Embroidery came into being in the middle period of the Qing Dynasty. The materials adopted for such embroidery are local-produced soft satin and colorful threads. The theme of Shu Embroidery covers mainly animals and plants in the nature, especially adept at embroidering pandas and fish. The embroidered products include mirror curtain, wedding dress, hats and shoes etc., with the main themes of auspicious happiness.