Clothing has always been the most vivid and vivid and vivid record of a country, a society and an era. In ancient times, Leizhou Gebu was a well-known brand-name product, and at that time, Leizhou Gebu, like Xiangyun Yarn, was the most fashionable, high-grade and most precious fabric, and many people were difficult to buy with money.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China and the early days after the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the urban and rural areas of Leizhou, men and women could have a set of high-end clothing made of gebu, which was how grand. At that time, rich families could usually wear clothes made of gebu, and when the daughters of the rich people got married, they would also try to make a gebu dress. The girl is married, and it is very important to have a gebu dress. Gebu clothes are a precious must-have for girls to get married.
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Kudzu, plant name. Perennial cranberry. The fabric made of the fibers of its stem is called gebu, commonly known as "xiabu", and the texture is thin. In addition to making clothing, since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, towels have been used a lot. The origin of Ge is Wuyue and Lingnan. The Book. Yu Gong: "Island Yi Huifu." Kong Chuan: "Nanhai Island Yi, grass clothes Ge Yue." Kong Yingda Shuo: "Ge Yue, the southern cloth name, use Ge for it." In the Book of Poetry, there is a "Ge Qin" mentioned: "Ge Zhi Qin Xi, Shi Yu Zhonggu, Wei Ye Momo." It is a sword is a water, a silk is a silk, and there is no servant. "It shows that humans were already using the fibers of kudzu vine for weaving at that time."
Regarding Gebu, China has the saying that "there is Gurong in the north and female Ge in the south", and "there is female Ge in the south" refers to the Gebu woven by women in Leizhou, Guangdong. The Guangdong Xinyu says: "Lei people are good at weaving ge. Its kudzu produces high cool, tsuki state, and weaves in thunder. "The main production areas of Ge are Yangjiang, Qizhou and Leizhou, while Gebu Textile is mainly Leizhou. Leizhou people are the best at weaving gebu. More than 3,000 years ago, during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the ancestors of Leizhou had learned the art of making clothes, and the local gebu was rich in high-quality tribute. This gebu has been the main item of tribute to the emperor since the Han Dynasty. There are many Guangdong Gebu, and Leizhou Gebu is authentic.
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At that time, most of the women in Leizhou made a living from weaving kudzu, and the textile kudzu cloth was thick and thin. The finely woven kudzu cloth is better than the satin in quality, as thin as a cicada wing, and weighs only a few baht. This cloth is thin and cool, and should be used for southern summer clothes. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Gebu in the Lingnan region was already famous throughout the country, and Gebu in Leizhou was "a hundred dollars and a foot, smooth and firm, and the color was like blood teeth." ...... Therefore, rege is prevalent in the world", the Central Plains Royal Family constantly sent people to ask for it. More than 1,000 years ago, the Western Han Dynasty official ship full of silk fabrics and ancient ceramics set sail from the coastal port in the south of Leizhou City to trade in South Asia, West Asia and Europe. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the production and trade of Gebu on the Leizhou Peninsula developed. The Gebu produced by various townships and societies gathered in Leicheng and exported to the outside world through Leizhou Port. Leizhou was the production base of Gebu in China at that time.
In April of the tenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1671), Qu Dajun, a famous scholar and poet of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, visited the Leizhou Peninsula at the invitation of Wu Shengzao, the prefect of Leizhou, and made an in-depth understanding of the society of Leizhou at that time. He wrote the "Song of Lei Nu Weaving Ge": "Lei Nu Cai Ge, cut into yellow silk." The east family is silk, and the west family is silk. The husband is cold clothed, and the woman is hungry for kudzu milk. Although the money is too much, it is not enough to pay the rent. Weave one horse a day, ten fingers in vain. Only a fat merchant Jia, unable to raise a body. This poem profoundly exposes the harshness of her time rent by describing the hardships of the life of the Leizhou weaving woman. The first six sentences write about the universal and superb skills of Leizhou weaving, and the last six sentences write about the unfair fact that Lei Nu worked hard and still did not earn enough to pay rent. This poem is a realistic reflection of the society of Leizhou at that time.
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Leizhou Gebu has been loved by people for thousands of years with its excellent texture. One of the four classical novels, Water Margin, writes for the 103rd time: "Huang Da... Wear a collar leizhou fine gebu short coat..." Wanting to come to Song Jiang, Wu Song, Lu Da and other Liangshan Po heroes wore clothes made of "Leizhou Gebu". The famous writer Wang Anyi's novel "Tianxiang" is a story of the ming Dynasty Shanghai official eunuchs, and there is also such a passage in the book: "The New Year's day is not the turn of their two younger families to worry, they only take care of the new year's gift of going to The father-in-law's house in the second year of the first year." Half a carton of rice cakes, half a load of good new rice, two horses of Gu Velvet, two horses of Leizhou Gebu... "Taking Leizhou Gebu and other things as a New Year's gift, it can be said that the gift is also heavy.
In ancient times, there was a saying that officials served as tributes to the land, that is, local officials paid tribute to the emperor on a regular basis or during the New Year's Festival. During the Qing Dynasty, the governors or governors of the provinces had to offer gifts to the emperor every year on major festivals or at the end of the year. The products of each province are different, and the amount of goods donated varies according to the production. Among the tributes of the Guangdong Inspector Duanyang Festival, there are fifty horses of Leizhou Gebu...
Leizhou Gebu left us with a wonderful, a legend.
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