The Long History of Inner Mongolia Carpets

Weaving handmade carpets has a history of more than two thousand years in China. Nomadic people on the Mongolian plateau in two thousand years ago also appeared with cattle hair or camel hair twisted into a line, according to the ancient method of weaving a variety of carpets with beautiful patterns set off.

Neimenggu carpet -- "Hou Han Shu" ninety Wuhuan biography: "women can prick Wei essay embroidery, weaving oyster rug (sound donkey whence)"; note cited Guangya: "oyster rug, also Reed" (sound count), is a kind of carpet, the carpet is a kind of carpet, the carpet is a kind of carpet. ), is a kind of woolen fabric. Woolen fabrics have also been found in the graves of the Huns in the Noyan Mountains of Mongolia. These are the earliest carpets of the northern peoples that we know of. "After the Liao Dynasty established its capital in Beijing, carpets became the specialized laying goods in the court." By the Yuan Dynasty, carpets were even more beautifully patterned and made. In the thirteenth century, the Italian traveler Marco Polo came to Metropolis (present-day Beijing) and marveled that the Yuan court was covered with the most beautiful carpets in the world, which were probably made by craftsmen of the palace houses of Metropolis or Kharakholin (present-day Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia).

Ming, Qing Dynasty, the rise of the Northwest folk carpet (the so-called Northwest folk carpet, is a general reference to the five provinces in the Northwest, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and the North by the Mongolian folk carpet) is closely related to Tibet, Mongolia and the belief in Lamaism. A small number of folk with a small carpet, simple and elegant, and a large number of call temple, color solemn, the production of magnificent giant carpet. Living Buddha on the lotus platform of the Grand Lama cushion decorated with gold dragon pattern, more luxurious and exquisite, is the Northwest folk carpet boutique. Qing dynasty kangxi, qianlong years, the emperor advocate lama yellow religion, had built countless call temple. These temples were furnished with a large number of pillar carpets, curtain carpets, cushion carpets, etc., which became an important reason to promote the development of folk carpet production. In Inner Mongolia, Baotou, Chifeng and other places in the carpet workshop, the production of high-quality temple carpet, and to the left flag of Alxa production of "Ningxia" carpet is the most famous.

Qing Dynasty, Mongolia region, Ningxia Province, facing the vast Mongolian, Tibetan pastoral areas, with the river-loop water conservancy developed agriculture and animal husbandry, production of high-quality wool, is the key to Northwest land and water transportation, since ancient times is the Uygur, Tibet, Mongolia, China and other national cultures meet place. This natural carpet producing area has absorbed the strengths of carpet and carving art of all peoples in northwest China, and formed a unique carpet art style based on Han brocade, porcelain pattern and traditional Mongolian pattern, which contains geometric brocade pattern of Uygur Hetian carpet, Ruyi of brocade, Baoxianghua pattern, auspicious flowers of urns and the Eight Treasures of Lamaism, and patterns of copper and silver utensils of Mongolian and Tibetan people. There are also Mongolian and Tibetan copper and silverware patterns. These ethnic patterns enrich the Mongolian carpet pattern.