Characteristics of Hangzhou Silk

Hangzhou silk is light and soft in texture, colorful and varied, including silk, satin and silk. The most famous brands are Great Wall, Xidebao, Wanshili, Katie and Hangzhou Silk Road.

Hangzhou Silk is a specialty of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and a symbolic product of chinese national geography. Hangzhou silk is light, soft and colorful, which plays an important role in the traditional silk weaving industry in China. Silk products unearthed in Liangzhu 4700 years ago reveal the long history of Hangzhou silk. Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Silk sleeves brocade praises persimmons, and pure gas sells wine and pears bloom", which also shows the high standard of Hangzhou silk at that time. The Silk Village in the Old Qinghe Square witnessed the prosperity of the silk economy.

On 20th11September19th, the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine approved the protection of "Hangsi" geographical indication products.

trace the history (of)

Legend has it that as far back as the Yellow Emperor era, Princess Lei Zu of the Yuan Dynasty "began to teach people to raise silkworms and treat cocoons to make clothes", so she began to domesticate wild silkworms and weave them into brocade to make clothes. The whole process of sericulture, sericulture, reeling and weaving by ancient silkworm farmers has been recorded in detail in ancient farming and weaving maps.

Hangzhou Historical Records Series records that "since 1936, archaeologists have made textual research on a large number of black pottery, stone tools, jade articles and linen products unearthed in Liangzhu and other places in the northern suburbs of Hangzhou, and determined them to be Neolithic relics more than 4,700 years ago, which historians call Liangzhu culture". Silk is a symbol of China's ancient culture and a great contribution of China people to the world's ancient civilization. Hangzhou, as a famous "Silk House" at home and abroad in history.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Hangzhou Silk.