The history of Chinese clothing
China’s clothing industry has a long history, the days of antiquity. Ape Cave store in Hangzhou, Beijing, where the excavated bone needles for about 1.8 million years ago. Zhejiang Yu Yao Hemudu Neolithic site, where the excavated bone needles and other objects. This can be concluded that bone needles were used in the original clothes. The original ancestors of the Chinese people wear clothes that are jointly made the apron of leaves or animal skins. Later on, the clothes of every dynasty, its own characteristics, is closely linked to agriculture, animal husbandry and textile production are linked.
In Spring and Autumn period, men and women in relation to the T-shirt-skirt dress, the universal “deep clothes” type. Hemp, ramie fabrics, materials and GE are the great masses of clothing materials by the working population. Rulers and nobles extensive use of silk fabrics. In parts of the site to use them, hair, feathers and kapok fiber textile fabric. Developed in the Han Dynasty, silk, hemp fiber spinning, weaving and dyeing technology was. Textiles, there is yarn, raw silk, silk, Kam, cloth, silk, etc., are highly enriched in clothing materials. From the Western Han Dynasty unearthed in Su-Zen clothes yarn, weighing only 49 grams, which show that at the moment can be quite long mulberry silk garments are used. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the rulers nor strict hierarchy in terms of clothing, clothing, a symbol of power. The widespread use in everyday clothing from linen, silk dress materials commonly used.
Posted: December 7th, 2009 under Clothing trends.
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