Traditional bamboo slips of Han nationality

Bamboo slips were produced in the Warring States period and made of bamboo chips and wood chips. Silk was invented in the middle of the Neolithic Age five or six thousand years ago and made of silk.

Silk (Sā chó u), a kind of textile, is woven from silk or synthetic fiber, man-made fiber, short silk, etc. The general name of the fabric interwoven by pure silk or rayon.

In ancient times, silk was a textile woven from silk (mainly mulberry silk, but also a small amount of tussah silk and cassava silk). Due to the expansion of modern textile raw materials, all textiles woven with man-made or natural filament fibers can be called silk in a broad sense. Silk woven from pure mulberry silk is also called "real silk".

Silk is a specialty of China. The invention and large-scale production of silk products by the working people of the Han nationality opened the first large-scale commercial exchange between the East and the West in the history of the world, known as the Silk Road in history. Since the Western Han Dynasty, China's silk has been shipped abroad in large quantities and has become a world-famous product. At that time, China's road to the west was called "Silk Road" by Europeans, and China was also called "Silk Country".