What is the historical origin of quilts?

Mexico has a long history of cotton cultivation. More than 90% of the total cotton output in the world today is upland cotton, which is the origin center of upland cotton. Mexico is called "the land of cotton". It provides rich and diverse germplasm resources and wild cotton varieties for cotton breeding and improvement in the world, and is known as the natural germplasm base of cotton in the world. It has been confirmed that 9 of the 32 kinds of wild cotton in the world are native to Mexico. The headquarters of Mexico National Cotton Research Center is located in Mexico City.

120 wild and semi-wild specimens were planted in the cotton germplasm resources garden of the institute. Since the 1980s, Mexico's national agricultural research institutes have signed contracts with private farms to set up a research project specializing in color cotton breeding and cultivation. Great progress has been made in recent years, and brownish red has been cultivated.

Different colors of colored cotton such as khaki and camel. According to the data, as early as before the era, the Uya people and the Asidek people in Mexico had planted colored cotton and became Spanish.

When entering southern Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula in the16th century, the local cotton planting was very developed. The islanders turned colored cotton into homespun and made it into a national costume that Mexicans loved to wear, which was very popular in the market.

The history of cotton

The history of human use of cotton has a long history, as early as 5000 BC or even 7000 BC, it has a history of 5000 years in the South Asian subcontinent. At least 2000 years ago, China's Guangxi, Yunnan, Xinjiang and other regions have used cotton fibers as textile raw materials. At first, people did not realize its economic value. The famous ancient traveler Suleiman described it in his Travels of Suleiman. The cotton seen in Beijing today is still regarded as the "flower" in the garden. "The Biography of Liang Shu Gaochang" says that "the grass is as real as a cocoon, and the silk in the cocoon is as thin as silk, which is called a white pile." It can be seen that cotton, an important raw material in the textile industry, was originally regarded as flowers and plants.

Cotton was introduced into China in three different ways. According to the analysis of flora and historical data, it is generally believed that cotton was introduced into the Central Plains from north to south. Nandao was originally Asian cotton from India, which was introduced to Hainan Island and Guangdong and Guangxi through Southeast Asia. According to historical records, at least in the Qin and Han dynasties, it was introduced to Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan and other regions. The second route was introduced to Yunnan via India and Myanmar. The time was probably in the Qin and Han Dynasties. The third way is that African cotton is introduced into Xinjiang and Hexi Corridor through West Asia. The time was around the Southern and Northern Dynasties. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, cotton spread to vast areas in the Yangtze and Yellow River basins. By the13rd century, cotton from the North Road had spread to the Weishui Basin in Shaanxi Province.

Historical documents and unearthed cultural relics prove that people of all ethnic groups in China's border areas planted and used cotton much earlier than in the Central Plains. Until the Han Dynasty, cotton textiles in the Central Plains were relatively rare and precious. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, cotton began to be transplanted to the Central Plains. At present, the earliest cotton textile relic seen in the Central Plains is a cotton blanket found in an ancient tomb in the Southern Song Dynasty. That is, from this period, cotton gradually replaced silk and became the main clothing material of our people. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, * * * set up the Kapok Lifting Department to collect cotton products from the people on a large scale, with an annual output of 654.38+10,000. Later, cotton cloth was regarded as the top of the summer tax (cloth, silk, silk and cotton), which shows that cotton cloth has become the main textile material. After the Yuan Dynasty, it was stipulated to collect cotton cloth, publish books on cotton planting techniques and persuade people to plant cotton. From Song Ying Xing's "Tiangong Wu Kai" in the Ming Dynasty,

Due to the poor quality and low yield of African cotton and Asian cotton, China introduced improved varieties of upland cotton from the United States in the late Qing Dynasty, and now all upland cotton and its varieties are planted in China.

In the 1960s, many countries successively conducted research and experiments on colored cotton. In the 1990s, the United States took the lead in making a breakthrough in the transformation and utilization of wild colored cotton. Colored cotton, that is, naturally grown colored cotton, because of its natural color, does not need printing and dyeing, bleaching and other processes in China, which not only avoids the pollution of dyes to water quality and the damage to fabrics, but also reduces the industrial cost. Therefore, colored cotton fabrics have become "green products" and "the market will be in the future".