Commonly Used Fabrics in Tang Dynasty

Commonly used fabrics in the Tang Dynasty include silk fabrics, hemp and kudzu fabrics, furs and so on.

In the Tang Dynasty, the most important fabrics were silk fabrics, followed by hemp and kudzu fabrics and furs. Silk species in the most colorful when the brocade. Brocade to silk as raw material, weaving before the warp and weft silk dyed color, weaving a variety of patterns, using more than two colors, more than dozens of kinds. Brocade varieties are many, there are named after the region of Shu brocade, there are named after the color of the scarlet brocade, white brocade, etc., but also named after the characteristics of the fabric Dazhang brocade, soft brocade and so on.

Hemp and kudzu is China's ancient fabric material, Bai Juyi's small aunt weaving white ramie, not yet understood will be human language. Kudzu cloth, Kudzu silk fuzzy spring snow body, deep streams to choose the spring clear place to wash. The silkworms spit out silk with ten fingers, and when the window curls up, the sound is high. Fur refers to clothing made of animal fur.

Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty, is China's history after the Sui Dynasty after the unification of the Central Plains dynasty,*** calendar of 21 emperors, enjoying the country of two hundred and eighty-nine years. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan, the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, took advantage of the situation to rise up in Jinyang, and in 618 he became the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, with Chang'an as his capital. The territory of Tang Dynasty was unprecedentedly vast, and at its peak, it extended from the Sea of Japan in the east to Annam in the south, from the Aral Sea in the west to Lake Baikal in the north. The Tang Dynasty adopted a tie-up policy with the neighboring ethnic groups and established close political and economic ties with them through various means, such as enfeoffment and affinity.

As one of the most powerful countries in the world at that time, the Tang Dynasty spread its reputation far and wide, and had many contacts with Asian and European countries. After the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese were often referred to overseas as the Tang people. And the Tang Dynasty actively exchanged and learned from other countries, so that its economy, society, culture and art were characterized by diversification and openness, and important achievements were made in poetry, calligraphy, painting and music.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Tang Dynasty for the above