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What are the products of ancient industry

Ancient Chinese industry is mainly the following six aspects

(1) hemp textile industry for example, the two han, can weave brocade, embroidery, Luo, yarn and many other varieties; western han's Chang'an, linzi, etc. has the country's most important government-run handicrafts; Changsha mawangdui tomb unearthed veil single garment as well as the silk road a large number of silk relics excavated and so on are fully illustrated the achievements of the han dynasty silk weaving industry. The development of the silk weaving industry, for the opening of the famous Silk Road provides the material conditions; Tang Dynasty silk and linen weaving throughout the country; Ming and Qing dynasties silk weaving industry unprecedented development, and produced a new production relations? The bud of capitalism appeared.

(2) cotton weaving industry: the Han Dynasty, cotton weaving industry arose, such as the Xinjiang region to plant cotton; will JI region produced Ge, is the local famous Yue cloth Han Guangwu Emperor will be listed as a tribute; the Southern Song Dynasty, the cotton weaving industry expanded to the Jiangnan region, gradually replacing the linen, became the main clothing; Yuan Dynasty, Songjiang became a center of cotton weaving, a number of small towns in the south of the Yangtze River is also due to the cotton textile industry and flourished.

Recognition: China is a traditional feudal state of men and women weaving, textile industry has a long history, its development is largely characterized by: before the Northern Song Dynasty, China's textile industry to silk and hemp weaving industry, after the Southern Song Dynasty, the cotton cloth gradually became the main clothing

(3) ceramic industry:

primitive societies such as the colorful pottery of the half-slope, the Dawenkou black pottery and white pottery are fine crafts; the Shang and Zhou periods is a leap in the history of China's ceramic development; Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties period, the north created a white porcelain, for the development of China's porcelain industry opened up broad prospects; Sui and Tang dynasties, porcelain kilns are distributed in the Central Plains and many areas of the south of the famous Tang Three Colors and celadon in the secret color of porcelain in the Tang Dynasty; the level of the Northern Song Dynasty's ceramics industry greatly exceeded the level of the previous generation, there are five famous kilns, such as Ding, Ru kilns, Jiangxi Province Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain marketed at home and abroad, the Southern Song and Yuan Dynasties when it became the country's famous porcelain capital.

(4) paper industry

Invention: the Western Han Dynasty invented papermaking, the paper with maps unearthed in Tianshui, Gansu Province, is the earliest paper known in the world;

Improvement: Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty in 105 years to improve the art of papermaking.

Development: during the Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties, the whiteness of paper increased in texture and thinness, and production increased dramatically, gradually replacing janbao and becoming the most important writing material;

Dissemination: a few centuries later, it was spread eastward to Korea and Japan; during the Tang Dynasty, it was spread westward to Daji (Arabia), and then through Arabia to Europe and North Africa.

(5) Iron smelting:

Iron began to be used in the Western Zhou Dynasty;

In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the technology of softening and treating cast iron was invented, which was a great achievement in the history of the world's iron smelting and was more than 2,000 years earlier than that of Europe;

The Two Han Dynasties: The iron smelting industry was divided into the governmental and the private sector in the Western Han Dynasty. Coal became the fuel for iron smelting, and people invented the quenching technology; during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Du Shi invented the water row, which made China's iron smelting level leading the world for a long time. Wan and Gong were famous iron smelting centers;

Sui-Tang period: cutting, polishing, welding and other processes were commonly used;

Liao and Song period: the iron smelting industry of Liao and Jin was of a higher level;

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, iron smelting industry in Foshan, Guangdong Province, produced six or seven thousand kilograms of iron in a day

6) Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding was developed rapidly during the Qin and Han periods, and in the Han Dynasty Invented the jerk, rudder and cloth sails, but also the use of anchors, the surface of shipbuilding navigation technology has matured;

Sui-Tang period: able to build the use of propulsion warships, which is the earliest use of mechanical power ship. Can build the world's largest sea ship at that time. In the early Tang Dynasty, more than 500 sea ships were built in Hongzhou alone;

The two Song dynasties: shipbuilding technology is a world leader, the largest Yangtze River sailing ship can carry more than 10,000 stones; the Southern Song Dynasty's Mingzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou is a shipbuilding center, built ocean-going sea ships that can carry tens of thousands of stones of food;

Ming Dynasty: Zheng He's fleet of ships reflecting the Ming Dynasty's superb shipbuilding technology