In Liu Yuxi’s eyes, Shu brocade is comparable to the sunset.
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This is a poem from the famous Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi's "Lang Tao Sha". He was fascinated by the beautiful Shu brocade. The poem describes the scene of a girl by the Jin River in the evening carrying brocade. He was fascinated by the beautiful Shu brocade. Chengdu is even more beautiful.
Shu Brocade originated in Chengdu, Sichuan during the Warring States Period and has a long history of more than 2,000 years. It is known as the "Four Famous Brocades" in my country along with Nanjing Yun Brocade, Suzhou Song Brocade and Guangxi Zhuang Brocade. For thousands of years, Shu brocade has attracted countless literati and writers with its unique charm. "You are the man who made his own wonderful brocade. His writings are brilliant and can be passed down from generation to generation. His cloth is thin and weakly folded, and the cocoon is made into gussets. Ali is slender and slender, avoiding the yin and yin. Spiders make silk, and the wind cannot be seen." "The yellow color in the tube is like gold." This famous line comes from "Ode to the Capital of Shu" by Chengdu writer Yang Xiong of the Western Han Dynasty. It fully praises the beauty and nobility of Shu brocade and the development of Shu brocade production industry in the Han Dynasty.
Shu brocade is a specialty of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, and a national geographical indication product of China.
Shu brocade is the general name for the special brocade produced in Shu County (now Chengdu, Sichuan) from the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms. Sichuan brocade is mostly woven with dyed cooked silk threads. It is embroidered with warp threads, decorated with colored strips or embellished with colored strips, and is woven by a method that combines geometric pattern organization and decoration.
Shu brocade has a history of two thousand years. Most of it is decorated with warp colors, color strips, and longitude and latitude flowers. The color strips are first and then the brocade group. Squares, bars, and geometric skeletons are embellished. The patterns are symmetrical and continuous in all directions. , with bright colors and strong contrast, is a colorful brocade with Han nationality characteristics and local style. Together with Nanjing's Yun Brocade, Suzhou's Song Brocade and Guangxi's Zhuang Brocade, they are known as the four most famous brocades in China.
Sichuan was known as "Shu", "Sichuan" and "Land of Silkworms" in ancient times. The sericulture and silk industry here originated earliest and it is one of the birthplaces of Chinese silk culture. Shu brocade flourished in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods and flourished in the Han and Tang Dynasties. It was named after being produced in Shu. It has a long history and far-reaching influence in the production of traditional silk brocade.