What are the names of silk and ancient textiles?

Ancient nicknames for silk were:

1.Brocade: In ancient times, brocade was a high-grade silk fabric, which was divided into two types: warp brocade and weft brocade.

Warp brocade is more than two colors of warp, using the method of warp and weft weaving, weft using the warp warp, after the completion of the glorious part, and then use different directions of warp weaving. The weft brocade is woven with colored weft threads by joining the weft threads. Brocade products began to appear in the Zhou Dynasty, the Warring States Period invented the brocade, the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty brocade skills were developed, the variety gradually increased, and the technology was also improved.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, because of different needs, the warp brocade gradually evolved into the weft brocade.

2.Qi: The craftsmanship of Qi is somewhat similar to that of brocade, but it uses two or more sets of weft threads, which are woven with the warp.

Before the Han Dynasty, Qi was woven with a small shuttle, from the Han Dynasty, due to the improvement of the loom and the lengthening of the weft, it was difficult to produce large works using the small shuttle digging and weaving, and the Han people began to weave in the way of full-width jacquard embroidery.

3.Aya: In ancient times, aya was a silk fabric with a twill or twill changing organization. Before the Han Dynasty, silk was woven in the way of jacquard bouquet embroidery, and by the Han Dynasty, corrugated fabrics began to appear, and by the Tang Dynasty, silk had become the most productive variety of silk fabrics.

4.Luo: In ancient times, Luo was a silk fabric that was woven into strips and twisted through the warp Luo. There are many varieties of Luo, and according to the different stripes and textures, they are divided into three types: Suluo, Hualuo, and Flora.

5.Silk: In ancient times, silk was a plain weave or variation plain weave silk fabric.

6.Satin: In ancient times, satin was a silk fabric with a satin weave. The satin fabric has a smooth surface, a soft texture, a shiny feeling, rich colors and a variety of varieties.

The above are some of the ancient names for silk, some of which reflect the technological and technical characteristics of silk, while others reflect the use and variety of silk.

Silk satin is a common term for silk fabrics in daily life, and it is not a complete classification method. Ancient Chinese silk weaving varieties include silk, yarn, Qi, silk, Luo, brocade, satin, silk and so on. Today, silk fabrics are structured according to their organizational structure.

Raw materials, technology, appearance and use are divided into 14 categories: yarn, Luo, silk, silk, spinning, silk, crepe, brocade, satin, silk, kudzu, wool, velvet and silk.

Silk satin (satin) refers to silk fabrics in general. In ancient times, most of them were used as clothes by wealthy people, and their colors were smooth and bright, and they were colorful.

In ancient times, silk was a textile woven from silk (mainly mulberry silk, but also a small amount of tussah silk and cassava silk). In modern times, due to the expansion of textile raw materials, all textiles woven with artificial or natural filament fibers in the warp can be called silk in a broad sense. The silk woven by pure mulberry silk is especially called "real silk".

Silk also refers specifically to textiles woven from mulberry silk.

Silk is a specialty of China. The Han working people invented and produced silk products on a large scale, which opened the first large-scale commercial and trade exchange between the East and the West in the history of the world, known as the Silk Road. Since the Han Dynasty, Chinese silk has been shipped abroad in large quantities and has become a world-famous product.

At that time, the main road from China to the West was once called the "Silk Road" by Europeans, and China was also called the "Silk Country"!

The Han Dynasty was called silk, and the Shu Kingdom (Sichuan) was called Shu brocade.

Silk was a representative commodity exported along the trade routes of ancient China, and as the main commodity of exchange, it was also used as another name for the Silk Road, such as the "Fur Road", "Jade Road", "Jewelry Road" and "Spice Road". The Maritime Silk Road exported a lot of magnets after the Middle Ages, so it is also known as the "Magnet Road".

Silk is one of the greatest inventions in our country, so our country has the reputation of the country of silk, because China's silk is famous all over the world, after reaching Western countries through the Silk Road, it is very popular with Western countries, so Europeans have long called China "Seris", that is, the meaning of "silk country".

Silk Road. Referred to as the Silk Road, it refers to the Western Han Dynasty (202 B.C.-8 A.D.), which was opened up by Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions, starting from Luoyang and Chang'an (now Xi'an), passing through Gansu and Xinjiang, and reaching Central Asia.

Western Asia, and connected to the Mediterranean.

The land passage of various countries (this road was also called the "Northwest Silk Road" to distinguish it from the other two transportation routes that would later bear the name "Silk Road"). Silk products were the most influential of the goods transported west by this route (and a lot of silk was shipped from China). Its basic direction was set in the Han Dynasty and Han Dynasty, including three routes: the South, the Middle and the North.

Shark silk The silk woven by the legendary shark people is a unique kind of clothing, and the characteristics are "shark silk yarn from the South China Sea, and it is not wet when it enters the water." Also refers to thin filaments.

Visual: smooth and gorgeous, smooth and bright.

Material: soft and comfortable, light and soft, soft and gorgeous.

Feeling: Flowing water.

Aya satin. Bright future.

Splendid, delicate and gorgeous silk fabrics, the future, is the future. Jia Zhongming of the Yuan Dynasty "To the Jade Comb": "Thinking about our splendid future, I am very affectionate. "The metaphor is that the future is as beautiful as silk.

Blooming. Colorful flowers are like gorgeous brocades, describing beautiful scenery and things.

Come home rich or famous. Returning to the hometown in splendid clothes means returning to the hometown with wealth and wealth. Brocade is the most precious silk fabric in ancient times, and the "Interpretation of the Name" records: "Brocade, gold also, make it hard, and its price is like gold."

Therefore, "Yijin" often refers to people who are rich and rich. "The Biography of Liu Zhixuan in the Southern History" has: "Emperor Wu said:

Qing's mother is old and virtuous, and she ordered Qing to return to her hometown in fine clothes and do her best. ’”

Clothes brocade night walk. Walking in the dark in splendid clothes, Yu Rongxian is unknown. "Hanshu Xiang Ji Biography": "Wealth does not return to their hometown, such as a night trip in clothes." It is also called "embroidered at night".

Tapestry palindrome. Also known as Xuanjitu, it is a palindromic poem written by Su Hui, the wife of Dou Tao in the Jin Dynasty, and is woven with five-color silk. Legend has it that during the Jin Dynasty, Dou Tao, the assassin of Qinzhou, was sent to Xiangyang to garrison, and he did not bring his wife Su Hui there, but took his favorite concubine to Xiangyang to serve as a magistrate, thus breaking off contact with his wife. Because his wife missed her husband, she wrote palindrome poems that could be read in repeated loops, woven them into brocade texts, and sent them to Dou Tao, reminding her husband not to be greedy for beauty, forgetting to marry his wife, and persuading him to change his mind.

Xuanjitu has been read by generations of literati, and it is said that 7,958 poems have been read from it. Later generations used "palindrome brocade" as a metaphor for love letters. For example, there are clouds in Yao Sui's "Yue Tune and Relying on the People" in the Yuan Dynasty

Weaving a palindrome to stop the jade shuttle, and miss him alone with the silver lamp. ”

Silk satin: refers to all kinds of fine silk fabrics.

Shu brocade Wu Aya: Shu brocade: Sichuan production of color brocade; Wu Aya: A type of Aya, originally from Kure County. It generally refers to all kinds of exquisite silk fabrics.

Yue Luo Shu Jin: Yue: Ancient Yue Kingdom, present-day Zhejiang; Shu: refers to the area of present-day Sichuan; Luo and Jin: They are all exquisite silk fabrics. Luo of Yuedi, Jin of Shu. The metaphors are all specialty, and each has its own strengths.

Zhu Cui Luo Qi: Zhu Cui: Pearl Jade; Luo Qi: Gorgeous silk fabrics. Refers to women's ornate clothing. Also refers to women in full costume.

Lu Min Qi Xuan: white fine silk produced by the ancient Qi and Lu countries. Later, it also refers to precious silk fabrics.

Brocade embroidered jacket: brocade: silk fabrics with colorful patterns. Refers to gorgeous clothes.

Returning home: clothes: clothes. Brocade: Silk fabrics with colorful patterns. Homecoming: Returning home, visiting relatives. In ancient times, it means that after becoming an official, he wore splendid clothes and returned to his hometown to boast to his relatives and friends. It is also said that the clothes are honorable.

Paste Liang Jinxiu: Paste Liang: Fatty meat and fine grains, referring to delicacies; Splendid: Delicate and gorgeous silk fabrics. Describe the luxurious life of the rich and noble.

Brocade and jade belt: Wearing a brocade robe and a jade belt around his waist. A splendid attire that describes the rich and noble.

Dazzling, light and soft, light silky and silky, assorted from the future, silk satin.