Why was silk used as currency in the Sui and Tang dynasties

There was the Silk Road, and silk was the main commodity.

The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of silk production, reaching unprecedented levels in terms of production, quality, and variety. The production organization of silk was divided into three types: court handicrafts, rural sideline industries, and independent handicrafts, and the scale was greatly expanded compared with the previous generation.

The Tang Dynasty silk has also been greatly developed, not only the "Silk Road" channel has increased to three, but also the frequency of the Silk Road has been unprecedentedly high. The production of silk and ** made a great contribution to the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

China is the homeland of silk, which is one of the important characteristics of Chinese civilization, and has a lot of connections with China's etiquette system, culture and art, customs and customs, science and technology, etc. The emperor used silk to show his authority, and the hundred officials used silk to mark their rank; Literati wrote poems about silk, and painters splashed ink on silk silks.

The common people offered sacrifices to the silkworm gods and prayed for a good harvest of silk, and the imperial court issued a decree to persuade the silkworm mulberry, and used this to evaluate the achievements of the local officials. Two of the four great inventions are directly related to silk. The original meaning of "paper" is the accumulation of silk in the process of making silk cotton.

The invention of printing is directly related to letterpress printing on silk, and the printed silk fabrics unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb have been large-scale colorful overprints, nearly a thousand years earlier than the official appearance of Tang Dynasty engraving prints.

In its heyday, because in the Tang Dynasty, the production, quality, and variety of silk reached an unprecedented level.

The Tang Dynasty should be an important period of silk production, and it was also an important period for the spread of silk, and the technology at that time should have been relatively mature, and if it was spread, it should have begun, mainly to the west, through Central Asia to West Asia and even Europe, and it should be all wider.

Silk in the Tang Dynasty was very prosperous from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty (618-907) was a very important stage in the history of the development of China's silk weaving handicraft industry. During this period, the division of labor in various departments of silk production was more refined, the fancy varieties were more abundant, the silk production area was expanded, and the weaving technology was greatly improved.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the country was divided into ten provinces, each of which had to pay a certain amount of tribute to the imperial court every year, and silk fabrics were a very important part of the tribute.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the main production area of silk fabrics was still in the north. After the Anshi Rebellion, the north was devastated by the war, while the Jiangnan region was not directly affected by the war and was less damaged. In this way, the silk weaving industry in the Jiangnan area developed rapidly.

During the reign, the reform of the military system was from the government military system to the mercenary system. Hood burial beating.

2. Restore the northern and western territories. restore the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate and re-exercise jurisdiction over the land north of the Great Wall; Restoration of the Silk Road.

3. Inhibit Buddhism. Reducing the number of monks and nuns in the country, prohibiting the rebuilding of new temples, the casting of Buddha statues, and the copying of Buddhist scriptures.

4. It has created a strong and prosperous situation in Chinese history"Kaiyuan prosperous"。

5. At the end of his reign, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the Tang Dynasty went into decline.