On the Artistic Style of Silk in Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of silk production, and the output, quality and variety reached an unprecedented level. Silk production organizations are divided into three types: palace handicraft, rural sideline and independent handicraft, and their scale is greatly expanded compared with the previous generation.

At the same time, the foreign trade of silk has also been greatly developed, not only the number of channels of the "Silk Road" has increased to three, but also the frequency of trade has reached an unprecedented height. The production and trade of silk made great contributions to the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

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China is the hometown of silk, and silk is one of the important features of Chinese civilization, which has many connections with China's etiquette system, culture and art, local customs, science and technology. The emperor used silk to show authority, and officials used silk to mark grades; Scholars write poems to praise silk, and painters splash ink on silk made of silk.

The common people offered sacrifices to various silkworm gods and prayed for high yield of silk, while the imperial court issued decrees to persuade sericulture, so as to evaluate the achievements of local officials. Two of the four great inventions are directly related to silk. The original meaning of "paper" is the deposition of wool in the process of making silk floss.

The invention of printing is directly related to relief printing on silk. The printed silk unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb has been a large-scale color overprint, which is nearly a thousand years earlier than the official engraving printing in Tang Dynasty.

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