Brief description of the Tang Dynasty silk art style

Many names and novel styles.

The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of silk production, whether output, quality and variety have reached an unprecedented level. Silk production organization is divided into the court handicrafts, rural industry and independent handicrafts three, the scale of the previous generation greatly expanded.

At the same time, the silk of foreign trade has also been a huge development, not only the "Silk Road" channel increased to three, and the frequency of trade is also unprecedented. Silk production and trade for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty made a great contribution.

Expanded:

China is the home of silk, which is one of the most important features of the Chinese civilization, and is extremely linked to China's ceremonial system, culture and art, local customs, science and technology. Emperors use silk to show their authority, and officials use silk to identify their rank; literati write poems about silk, painters splash ink on silk made of silk.

The people sacrificed to the gods of the silkworms, praying for a good silk production, while the court issued a decree to advise the silkworms, and to evaluate the performance of local officials. Two of the Four Great Inventions are directly related to silk. The original meaning of "paper" was the accumulation of velvet in the process of making silk floss.

The invention of printing was directly related to the art of letterpress printing on silk, and the printed silk fabrics unearthed in the Mawangdui Han tombs were already large, colorful overprints, nearly a thousand years before the official appearance of engraved prints from the Tang Dynasty.

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