"The dresses of Qing emperors, concubines, etc. were all made of silk, and a skilled technician could only make a few millimeters a day." On March 1, the Suzhou Silk Culture and Technology Exhibition jointly organized by the Yunnan Provincial Museum and the Suzhou Silk Museum was launched on the 3rd floor of the Yunnan Provincial Museum, and the person in charge of the exhibition project, Shi Yi, introduced that 98 sets of exhibits covered Song Jin, Silk Silk, Sarus, Zhangsatin, etc., and the exhibition lasted until April 15.
Suzhou, as a famous silk capital, has gradually become one of the important areas for silk production and trade in China since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and the silk weaving industry in Suzhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties led the five major silk towns in Jiangnan with exquisite weaving skills and rich silk varieties. Thousands of years of silk weaving memory technology, which has penetrated the daily life of suzhou, has formed a unique cultural temperament and scenery.
The exhibition includes sericulture culture, silk making technology, weaving technology, printing and dyeing technology, and at the same time, the products representing Suzhou's high-level silk weaving technology, such as Song Brocade, Silk, Sarong, And Zhangsatin, are displayed.
It is worth mentioning that the silk (also known as "carved silk"), which originated from the "silk" technique introduced in the Han and Wei dynasties, was used in silk fabrics during the Tang Dynasty, and gradually transitioned from silk practical products to painting art since the Song Dynasty, and developed into a calligraphy and painting silk ornament.
At the time of the iteration of the two Song Dynasties, the silk reeling process was transmitted to the Jiangnan area, which was widely spread in the Suzhou area and continues to this day, and is one of the most representative cultural expressions of Suzhou silk weaving. Silk weaving technology is mainly embodied in the "through the warp and weft", with a small shuttle will be colorful silk thread color by color weaving, contour color scale change unique, "bearing the view of the sky, such as the image of carving", is China's first batch of national intangible cultural heritage masterpieces, has also been included in the "Chinese mulberry silk weaving technology" list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
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