What is Zhuang Cotton in Guilin?

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China is the home of silk, silk has a long history of development. Silk, including brocade, silk, silk, silk, satin, etc., of which brocade is the best. The brocade of the minority nationalities and each has its own characteristics and style. The Yunjin brocade of Nanjing has become the "brocade of brocades" through the continuous exploration and innovation of skilled craftsmen. The re-emergence of the Tang suit, brocade has also become the people's daily life in the high-grade supplies and collectibles, how to better develop the traditional craft of brocade, deserves our attention.

China is the home of silk, as early as five thousand years ago, our ancestors invented the cultivation of silkworms and silk weaving silk. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor's consort Rayon "began to teach the people to raise silkworms, silk cocoons for clothing", and then was honored as the god of silkworms. Silk brocade has excellent performance and decorative effect, especially loved by the people. Brocade is also known as the queen of fibers. Ancient oracle bone inscriptions on the rhetoric of sacrificing silkworms, the Shang Dynasty bronze with silkworm decoration, the Warring States bronze with "picking mulberry map". Around the fifth century AD, China's Silk Road, began to spread overseas, becoming the famous "Silk Road", when the West called China "Ceres" that is, "Silk Country". The opening of the Silk Road, promote the cultural exchanges between the East and West, enhance the friendship of the peoples of the countries, silk production has gradually become the main side business of the countryside, and has become an important part of the national economy and the successive regimes levied one of the sources of wealth. China's silk reputation in the world, is an important contribution to human civilization.

Chinese brocade, elegant and simple, long history, unique features, mainly Nanjing brocade; Sichuan Shu brocade; Xiangxi Miao brocade; Tujia brocade; Guangxi Zhuang brocade; Li Li brocade; Dai Dai brocade and so on.

Miao brocade, is a part of China's brocade splendor, the method is to hold a good warp yarn shaft resting on the loom, and then use a smooth piece of bamboo in accordance with the needs of the pattern, to the warp yarn of one or more roots to pick through, and then the introduction of a weft thread. There are two kinds of brocade, narrow and wide, the narrow one is only four or five minutes to about two inches for the belt, and the wide one is one inch to seven or eight inches, which is used by the girls and young women for the skirt. Brocade weaving methods are pick weaving, machine weaving, weaving three kinds. Pick weaving is a wide brocade, weaving and weaving for brocade belt, Miao family has Miao brocade loom, Miao brocade in the local said "weaving flowers". Miao brocade has plain brocade, color brocade points, pattern point, line composition, pattern is mostly for celebration, good luck, longevity meaning. Miao women's clothing in the headdress, lapel, sleeve decoration, is an important part of the beautification of the life of the Miao people.

The Tujia people living in Hunan and Hubei regions named the Tujia color brocade as "Silankap". The folk brocade art represented by Xilankapu is called the best art of Tujia. Xilankapu, in Chinese, means "earth flower pavement" (back of earth flower), and it is the family hand-woven brocade of the Tujia folk. As early as four thousand years ago, the Tujia ancestors Ba people mastered the simple brocade weaving technology. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, brocade was called "cloth" and was a superior tribute to the royal family. Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the Silankapu is called "soil brocade" "Zhanbu" "Dongbu" and so on, the craft emperor dragon robe robe material to further play to reach a high level. Especially the Tujia girls from the age of eleven, two years old with their mothers to practice pick weaving techniques, learning color weaving. Tujia brocade weaving process is unique, strong color contrast, the color is mostly big red and green, bright colors, very beautiful. The patterns are simple and exaggerated, with auspicious motifs as the theme, and many bird images in the motifs, such as the phoenix wearing peony, heron peony, double phoenix sunrise, magpies haunting plums and so on. The traditional patterns of Xilan Kapu are mostly abstract geometric figures, and there are table flowers, double eight hooks, twelve hooks, twenty-four hooks and so on in the geometric figures. There are ten-thousand character flowers, king character flowers, happy character flowers, "Fortune, Longevity and Happiness", "Long Life and Prosperity", "A Piece of the Dynasty", "Carp Jumps the Dragon Gate " and so on. Xilan Kapu is used as a decoration for handicrafts and is made into sofa cushions, centerpieces, curtains, tablecloths, chair cushions, wraps, brocade bags, wall hangings, garments and so on.

Strong brocade is an original textile handicraft created by Zhuang women. The Zhuang brocade loom is a self-created loom by Zhuang women, with simple weaving structure, lightweight weaving and easy operation. Its jacquard is through the machine "bamboo cage" and "woven bamboo" to weave a colorful pattern, the pattern is mostly flowers and fruits, birds and animals, landscapes and so on. Until now, the Zhuang people still have to get married to have Zhuang brocade quilt surface, the first child to be born with the Zhuang brocade straps of the national custom.

Li brocade is Hainan Island, Li women's handmade art. During the Tang and Song dynasties, Li brocade and Li sheets were famous all over the world. Li women in the oldest "cu loom" can weave exquisite Li brocade. Li brocade can also be used to make tube skirt, Li sheet, Yazhou quilt and other daily necessities. Dai brocade is made of fine yarn and colorful velvet, and is woven by simple earthenware looms. The motifs are all natural objects unique to the local area, such as elephants, peacocks, singing and dancing people and bamboo buildings in villages, people at the Water Splashing Festival, etc. The Dai people like to use them very much. The Dai people like to use Dai brocade to decorate their lives, hanging bags, shawls, quilts, wall hangings are made of Dai brocade.

Nanjing brocade has more than 1500 years of hand-woven history. Its wooden machine makeup flower is China's more than 4700 years of silk weaving history, more than 300 years of brocade history, the only handed down to this day can not be replaced by the machine, digging flower plate weaving with the heart of the memory of the traditional hand-woven weaving process. Nanjing brocade process is always by hand orally, from generation to generation. In the ancient silk fabrics, "brocade" represents the fabric of the highest technical level. Nanjing brocade is a collection of brocade craftsmanship through the ages, located in the ancient Chinese three famous brocade of the first. Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties have set up in Nanjing, "to the officer to lead, in order to authorize the artisan," the official weaving institutions. Yuan for the "East and West Weaving and Dyeing Bureau". Ming Dynasty, "weaving and dyeing bureau", "God of silk", "supply machine room". Qing Dynasty for the "Jiangning Weaving Bureau". Jiangning Weaving Bureau **** existed for more than two hundred and sixty years, during which the weaving officials in charge of dozens of people. Among them, Cao Xi, Cao Yin, Cao, Cao grandchildren have served as Jiangning Weavers for 65 years. Cao family in Jiangning in addition to bear the responsibility of weaving all the affairs of the imperial satin, but also for the royal family in the procurement of Jiangnan, the office, the report of all the affairs.