When did China start weaving in ancient times?

In primitive society, silk reeling and sericulture in Lei Zu started the textile industry. But it's just a legend, with no definite basis.

This is the history of the cotton textile industry. Documents and unearthed cotton textiles prove that people of all ethnic groups in China's border areas planted and used cotton much earlier than in the Central Plains.

In ancient times, due to the inconvenient transportation, the dominant natural economy and underdeveloped commodity production, the cotton planting and cotton textile technology developed in frontier areas went through a long process of spreading to the Central Plains. Until the Han Dynasty, cotton textiles in the Central Plains were relatively rare and precious.

In the Song Dynasty, there were frequent exchanges between the frontier and the mainland, a large number of cotton textiles were imported into the Central Plains, cotton and cotton cloth were widely popular in the mainland, and cotton planting and cotton textile technology were gradually introduced. 1979, a piece of blue-gray cotton cloth dating back more than 3,200 years was found in the coffin of Wuyishan Rock Tomb in Chong 'an, Fujian.

1966, a complete brushed cotton blanket was unearthed from the Song Tomb in Lanxi, Zhejiang. These two unearthed cultural relics provide important clues for the study of cotton planting and the development of cotton textile industry in southeastern China.

Spinning wheel pendant is the earliest tool used for spinning in the history of China, and its appearance can be traced back to at least the Neolithic Age. Spinning wheels unearthed in the early days were generally made of stones or pottery pieces by simple polishing, with different shapes, mostly drum-shaped, round, oblate and quadrangular, and some wheels were painted with decorative patterns.

The appearance of spinning pendants not only changed the textile production in primitive society, but also had a far-reaching impact on the development of spinning tools in later generations. As a simple spinning tool, it has been used for thousands of years. Even in the 20th century, some nomadic Tibetans in Tibet still used it for spinning.

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China weaving originated from the spinning wheel and waist machine in the Neolithic Age 5000 years ago. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, simple looms, spinning wheels and looms with traditional properties appeared one after another. Jacquard machines and oblique looms were widely used in Han Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, China's textile machinery became more and more perfect, which greatly promoted the development of the textile industry.

Diversification of textile materials;

The development of textile processing technology in ancient and modern times is designed according to textile raw materials, so raw materials occupy an important position in textile processing.

In ancient times, all the fibers used in textile in the world were natural fibers, generally three kinds of short fibers: wool, hemp and cotton. For example, the only fibers used for textile in the Mediterranean region are wool and flax. Cotton used to be used in the Indian Peninsula.

In addition to these three kinds of fibers, silk, a long fiber, was widely used in ancient China. Silk is the best, longest and thinnest textile fiber among all natural fibers, and can be used to weave all kinds of complex jacquard fabrics.

The extensive use of silk fiber greatly promoted the progress of textile processing and machinery in ancient China, thus making silk production technology the most distinctive and representative textile technology in ancient China.

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