What are the types of handicrafts in ancient China

1. Embroidery

Embroidery is a general term for all kinds of decorative designs embroidered on fabric by needle and thread. Embroidery is divided into two kinds of silk thread embroidery and feather embroidery. It is a needle will be silk thread or other fibers, yarns to a certain pattern and color in the embroidery material piercing, to the embroidery marks constitute a pattern of decorative fabrics. It is an art of adding human designs and productions to any fabric in existence using needles and threads.

Embroidery is one of the traditional Chinese folk handicrafts with at least 2,000 to 3,000 years of history in China. There are four main categories of Chinese embroidery: Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery and Cantonese embroidery.

2. Textile

Chinese machine textile originated from the spinning wheel and waist machine in the Neolithic period five thousand years ago. Western Zhou period with the traditional performance of simple reeling, spinning wheel, loom appeared one after another, the Han Dynasty, the widespread use of jacquard machines, slant looms, after the Tang Chinese textile machines are becoming more and more perfect, greatly promoting the development of the textile industry.

3, salt

Salt industry has a long history, and its development has gone through the process of primitive manual production, handmade machinery production to mechanization, modernization of production (see the history of salt technology).

4, papermaking

Papermaking is one of China's four great inventions, paper is the accumulation of long-term experience of the Han Chinese working people and the crystallization of wisdom, the history of human civilization, an outstanding invention. China is the first country in the world to raise silkworms and weave silk. Han Chinese working people to the top of the cocoon silk weaving, the rest of the cocoon, sick cocoon, etc. is used to bleaching method to get the silk floss. After the bleaching is completed, some residual floss will be left on the gabion mat.

When the number of bleaching flocculation, gabion mat on the residual flocculation will be accumulated into a layer of fiber flakes, after drying stripped down, can be used for writing. The by-product of this bleaching is small in quantity, and in the ancient books it is called Hejian or Fangshu. This shows that the origin of Chinese Han papermaking has a relationship with silk floss.

5, ceramics

The Chinese invented pottery as early as about 8000-2000 BC (Neolithic). Vessels fired with clay are called pottery, and those fired with porcelain clay are called porcelain. Ceramics, on the other hand, is a general term for earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The ancients called ceramics ou. All the two different properties of clay with pottery and porcelain clay as raw materials, through the ingredients, molding, drying, roasting and other processes made of utensils can be called ceramics.