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What are the four famous brocade in China?

1, Yunjin: Yunjin is named for its bright colors and beauty like clouds in the sky. Exquisite materials, exquisite weaving, exquisite patterns, gorgeous brocade and elegant style. It is developed on the basis of inheriting the excellent tradition of brocade in past dynasties, and also combines the valuable experience of other silk weaving techniques, reaching the peak of silk weaving technology, and is known as the "crown of brocade", which represents China silk weaving.

2. Shu Brocade: Shu Brocade is mostly woven with dyed mature silk thread, with warp, colored stripes or colored stripes, and geometric pattern organization is combined with ornamentation. Shu brocade has a history of 2000 years, and most of them are warp color, striped color, warp and weft flower, pre-striped color, square flower, striped flower and geometric skeleton flower. The pattern is symmetrical, the four directions are continuous, the colors are bright and the contrast is strong. It is a colorful brocade with China national characteristics and local style.

3. Song Jin: Song Jin was awarded the title of "the crown of splendid scenery" in China with its gorgeous colors, exquisite patterns and solid texture. It, together with Nanjing Yunjin, Sichuan Jin Shu and Guangxi Zhuangjin, is called the four famous brocade in China. Song brocade began in the late Song Dynasty (about 1 1 century), and its products are divided into heavy brocade and fine brocade (both of which are also called big brocade), box brocade and small brocade. Heavy brocade is thick in texture, and its products are mainly used for the furnishings of palaces and halls. Fine brocade is the most representative kind of brocade in Song Dynasty, with moderate thickness, which is widely used in clothing and mounting.

4. Huanhua Brocade: "Huanhua Brocade" is the inheritance and development of "falling flowers and flowing water brocade". There are two kinds of silk and satin guides, and the patterns are extremely rich. Such as: the size of the square wins, plum blossom points, water ripples and so on. It is characterized by simplicity, simplicity, elegance and generosity. Another reason for the origin of the name "Huanhua" is that this brocade is often washed in Huanhua Beach in the upper reaches of Jinjiang River, hence the name.

5. Zhuang Brocade: This exquisite handicraft made of cotton thread or silk thread has vivid patterns, rigorous structure and bright colors, and is full of warm and cheerful national style, reflecting the worship of the Zhuang people to heaven and earth and their pursuit and yearning for a better life.

Xincheng county is one of the origins of Guangxi Zhuang brocade, with a long history and profound cultural heritage. Xincheng Zhuang Brocade was once a fine product in Guangxi Zhuang Brocade, and it was presented to the court as a tribute.