Ancient Guangzhou People Wore The "Green" Of Banana And Bamboo Fiber.

Unearthed Tomb of Nanyue King

The earliest printing plate in the world

The unearthed relics of the Nanyue King's tomb are important discoveries in the history of Guangzhou's ancient costume.

There was a time in academia that there was no silk in Yue Yue kingdom.

One of the arguments of this argument is that when the second emperor sent Lu Yue to the South Vietnam, he gave Zhao Tuo more than 100 pieces of silk brocade of different textures.

In addition, although some silk fabrics had been unearthed in Guangzhou and other places before, because of the high acid content of the soil in south of the Five Ridges, the silk fabrics were rotten and carbonized in the tombs.

The quantity and category of silk fabrics unearthed from the tomb of Nanyue King is no less than the famous Han tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha.

Although all carbonization has been done, the organization and printing patterns of silk fabrics can be clearly distinguished after careful reinforcement and scientific inspection by experts.

They are rich in variety and exquisite in technology.

A large proportion of raw materials, colors, patterns and techniques are similar to those of the Central Plains, but some of them are not seen in the Central Plains.

Experts pointed out that from the unearthed ultra-fine silk, mica calender, black oil silk, South Vietnam's silk reeling, weaving and other technology has reached a very high level.

The printed yarn pattern of the South Vietnamese King's tomb was slightly larger, but the pattern was basically the same as that of the "gold and silver printed yarn" unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha.

The two precious bronze engraving unearthed from the West ear room is the world's first color overprint module, which is of great significance in the history of science and technology.

Before that, people thought that

The famous archaeological and cultural experts, Mai Ying Hao and Li Jin, pointed out that there are a lot of silk fabrics unearthed from the tomb of Nanyue Wang, including 100 pieces of raw cloth, a large number of silk ribbons wrapped in bronzes, jade and iron, woven ribbons and belts, which are used to wear objects such as bronze mirrors, jade bangles, jade ornaments, etc.

Among them, there are spun silk and yarn in plain fabric. They belong to leno weave. They are crepe and robe. They belong to heavy tissue, such as plain coloured brocade, two black brocade of black and black, brocade and so on.

In the Han Dynasty tomb, archaeologists also found about 500 steel needles, ranging from 5.5 to 7 centimeters in length, divided into coarse and fine two, the former about 300, and the latter about 200.

We can imagine the progress of sewing technology at that time.

"Ramie"

Song Wu ordered the ban on production.

During the Wei, Jin and southern and Northern Dynasties, the textile industry in south of the Five Ridges entered a stage of hundred flowers bloom.

While northern farmers still used cannabis as a textile raw material, their southern counterparts made more imaginative explorations.

According to the history of science and technology in south of the Five Ridges, ramie and pueraria are one of the main textile materials in south of the Five Ridges during this period.

This is also the first time in China's history that ramie has been widely used as a raw material in modern textile industry.

By the time of Liu Song in the Southern Dynasty, Guangzhou had been able to weave the incomparable "slender cloth" with special white and slender in ramie.

This cloth is extremely light, and there is room for eight feet at one end to be involved in the small bamboo tube.

Owing to the fact that such exquisite and luxurious cloth was too expensive to work, it led to song Wu Di personally ordering the production ban: "Guangzhou tasted a fine cloth at the end, eight feet at one end, and the emperor was evil and refined." at the same time, he had to pay for the Imperial Guard, to make cloth and return it to south of the Five Ridges.

However, the emperor did not prohibit the production of ramie.

As for the cultivation of cotton, as early as in the ancient book Yu Gong, there are records of Yangzhou Island (including today's Guangdong, Hainan Island, etc.) in the tribute of "island Yi clothes and jou Zhi Bei".

Some researchers have pointed out that "the fine people of South Yi Mu" are also known as "jelli", that is to say, "weaving Bei" is "Ji Bei", and "jelli" is the pliteration of Sanskrit "Karpasi", meaning cotton.

Therefore, it is possible that in the pre Qin period, Hainan Island and other places in south of the Five Ridges had cotton planting.

In the Three Kingdoms period, more and more people mentioned the "five color patches" woven with "silk cloth", "ancient Bei Mu" or "Ji Bei" and "Mu mian" in their works.

Experts pointed out that the Chinese ancient books mentioned "wooden cotton" has two meanings, one refers to Panzhihua, which is now common in Guangzhou Street kapok tree, two refers to cotton.

Before the Wei, Jin and southern and Northern Dynasties, south of the Five Ridges was planted with perennial woody kapok.

At the end of this period, annual herbaceous cotton began to be cultivated.

"Environment-friendly" materials have been found in ancient times

Banana leaves from pot boiling to ash refining

Today's Guangzhou people live in a natural, green and green environment. All kinds of natural materials, such as bamboo fiber and wood fiber fabric, are sung by me.

Little wonder that these "green fabrics" have been popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Wei Jin period nearly 2000 years ago.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Fu recorded in the "records of foreign things": "banana banana Ye Daru's banquet, its stem is like taro, it can be boiled as silk, and it can be spun"; the Wu people in the Three Kingdoms period, Wan Zhen, in the "Nan Zhou foreign matter Chronicles" and Jin people Guo Yigong in Guang Zhi, also recorded the south of the Five Ridges people's use of "banana stem fiber" in this period of textile, for example, the former said: "plantain grass.

Its stem, such as taro, is made from ash and refined, and it can be woven.

The difference is that the method of degumming of banana peel is boiled in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it has developed to gray refining in the Three Kingdoms.

Because the ash contained alkaloids in the plant ash and soaked in water, the banana stem bark is more easily degummed than the pot and saves energy. It can also get better banana fiber.

Until the Qing Dynasty, the method of degumming of banana stems in Guangxi was still this method of refining.

As for bamboo fabrics, there are many records in Jin people's books, including "hammer leaching" and "grey cooking".

In addition, the ancestors of the Guangzhou area also used some bark fibers to weave cloth.

The dressing of Guangzhou people in the Han Dynasty

Many "wide robe big sleeves"

The clothing of the ancient Guangzhou people experienced a long process of evolution, and formed different styles and characteristics at different times. Moreover, the uninterrupted national contacts in different dynasties also brought different ethnic costumes to the stage.

In the view of the "Hanfu" which is now popular again, it has shown very varied changes and distinctive class characteristics, forming a broad and profound clothing culture.

The clothes worn by the ancient people were mainly made up of the robes made up of the undergarments of the Han men. They were called "deep clothes" and the women wore deep garments, but the undergarments and skirts were not lined.

This kind of clothing is loose and comfortable, also known as "wide robe and big sleeves". The skirts (left) are left to the right. (Hu clothing is left to the left. The so-called "hair left Zuo") can be seen in the wooden figurines, bronze figurines, pottery figurine and jade dancers unearthed in the two Han tombs of South of the Five Ridges.

Although the painted or painted clothes of many figurines have been worn away, they can still be deduced from their posture that they should wear "deep clothes".

The terracotta figures unearthed from Han Tombs in Guangzhou include women's Terracotta figurines with upper bodies, broad skirts, girdle girdles, and scarves on their heads; body fat, naked clothes, or only a sleeveless figurines with sleeveless singles and shorts; terracotta Figurine wearing long skirts and kneeling dances; dancing figurines with long sleeves and a trumpet shaped flower skirt.

The majority of the laborers, mainly wearing short sleeved brown clothes, shorts, and the bronze warriors of the South Vietnamese King's tomb screen, are typical.

In the Han Dynasty, there was also a short pants called "calf nose," similar to today's briefs. Sima Xiangru, a famous writer in the Han Dynasty, was selling wine with his wife Zhuo Wenjun for a long time.

At that time, when the Aboriginal people wore clothes, they also had tattoo tattoo, and the shorts and shorts were recorded. This is naturally due to the convenience of wading.

However, no information on Vietnamese costumes has yet been found in Guangzhou archaeology since the Han Dynasty.