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Technological characteristics of Sara silk

There are many varieties, specifications and colors of Sara silk, which are widely used and popular at home and abroad. In the Southern Dynasties before Liang Wudi, silk was called "Lian". After Liang Wudi proclaimed himself emperor, "practice" was changed to "silk". According to "Sara Town Records": "According to" Notes of Xiangzu ",Liang Wudi was renamed Alian and later changed to Silk. Today, silk silk is rarely called practice. " After Zheng De and Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, the main varieties of silk at that time were Baotou silk, silk, Baotou crepe and Luo. The name of "Lingbi Silk" is very complicated, with flowers, fifteen to six, two to three, ten to ten, three, four, five to six feet. Its flowers include Four Seasons Flowers, West Lake Scenery, Baizi Map, Longevity, Double Butterfly, Twelve Yuanyang, Happiness, Eight Treasures and so on. Silk is divided into Baotou silk according to its use ("women use it as jewelry", "Fujian men also wrap their heads", and "the wind is high in autumn and winter in the north, and pedestrians cover their faces to protect their eyes". ) Palace silk (book cover written for the emperor), lamp silk (used to paste lamps in Shangba Prefecture, Zhejiang Province), and mounting silk. Underwear has the names of Dragon Underwear, Yunhe Underwear, Huayang Underwear, Sansi Silk, Qiba Yarn, Liu Qi Yarn, etc. It is dyed in color, used for decorating calligraphy and painting, shaping characters, painting and decorating walls. Yarn includes straight yarn, light yarn, sunflower yarn, skillful yarn, lamp yarn, sandwich yarn and ice yarn. Baotou crepe, "there are wide palaces, narrow palaces, top palaces, small heavy springs, crepe crepe" and so on. At that time, in the town, "anyone who collects silk will enter the market at dawn, and the village will collect it at dawn." According to "Silk Village House in Xinsifang Mansion". There are many famous businessmen, and many people sell them to other parties. Someone wrote "Double Stream Acura", describing the bustling scene at that time: "When Xiao was in Si Village, the lights on the street were like dusk, Wu boats came in groups, and Yao Benfeng traveled everywhere." According to Sara Town Records, twill, crepe and Baotou yarn were "sold in Fujian and Wen Tai, used by coastal boatmen to wrap their heads, and sold for hundreds of thousands of pieces at their peak." Silk embroidery is sold in all provinces and reaches Japan ... and exported to all ports. Some businesses are located in Shanghai and Suzhou. The market is relatively developed, and the annual value of silver is about 10 million yuan. "

"Lingbi Silk" is a general term for Lingbi and silk. "Flowers are silk, but vegetables are silk". Silk is mainly used for painting and writing instead of paper, and silk is mainly used for mounting calligraphy and painting. Because the shrinkage of silk is basically the same as that of rice paper, it has the advantages of flat mounting, small shrinkage, uniform weft density, difficult to expose the bottom, elegant color and sun resistance, so the picture mounted with silk can be firm and elegant without wrinkling and warping. In particular, precious paintings and calligraphy, once mounted on silk, are even more flawless in art and worth a hundred times at once. Calligraphy and painting use double forest silk, which is elegant, simple, elegant and full of emotion. It can receive pleasing and touching artistic effects and give people perfect artistic enjoyment. At present, silk is also used to make ethnic and theatrical costumes, make palace lanterns, lampshades, kites, screens, silk flower and other handicrafts, and paste exquisite handicraft brocade boxes and the inner walls of restaurants in high-end buildings and hotels.