The Tension Of Life On A Piece Of Silk -- How Wonderful The Silk Textile Industry Of Wujiang Is

A silk thread, a thousand years of history, a commercial road carrying millennial culture.

From the silk Township, which has "sunrise all silk and clothes to the world", to today's "China silk town" and "China's textile first town", and then move from "weaving capital" to "fashion capital".

Silk is a "Golden Dragon" in Wujiang. The synthetic silk is a silver dragon in Wujiang. Shengze's silk textile industry, represented by the town of Wujiang, has been baptized in the past, and has stood upright in the tide of economic development. However, development is not smooth sailing. In the face of fierce market competition and institutional constraints, Shengze people are determined to forge ahead and break cocoons, and constantly open up new outlets and walk out of the new silk road.

Wujiang silk textile industry

The silk textile industry in Wujiang is not only a material embodiment, but also a spirit. What is spirit? Spirit is life, creativity. From the perspective of Shengze people, this spirit is undoubtedly the silk spirit.

Shengze people respect life. Silk spirit can solve the crisis with flexibility, tenacity and inclusiveness of silk, and seek change through Reiki, hard gas and life tension. Silk spirit is also reflected in the pursuit of beauty, fashion and taste. Shengze has always been known as "little Shanghai". Today, it has been promoted to the realm of leading the trend of clothing and fabric. It is in line with the pioneering spirit of Shengze people. As one of the four largest silk fabrics in the country, little town has today's production scale of 140 thousand kinds of advanced looms in the world today and 20 billion meters of silk textile fabrics annually. This huge material achievement is the fruit of the spirit and a song of life.

The times are Sonata and passion is reburning. Shengze people are making brilliant plans for Wujiang silk textile industry with their ingenuity.

Shengze is located on the South Bank of the Taihu River Valley. It is densely covered with lakes and rivers. According to historical records, when general Sheng Bin of the Three Kingdoms period built a Polder in Shengze, raised the fields and flourished their descendants, Shengze began to work hard for planting mulberry, raising silkworms, reeling silk and weaving silk.

By the Tang Dynasty, the silk production had formed a certain scale, and Wujiang became an important silk producing area. At that time, Lu Guimeng, a writer living in Wujiang, wrote down the poem "Sang zhe has sparse smoke" and "everywhere depends on silkworm eggs". In the Ming Dynasty, it was recorded in the "Suzhou records" of Zheng de: "Aya, all counties, and Wujiang is the largest. When Tang was filled with tribute, it was called Wu Ling.

Silkworm cocoon

In the Yuan Dynasty, despite the successive years of war, sericulture production in Wujiang still had a considerable scale. Marco Polo, a famous traveller in Italy, said in her travels: "leaving Suzhou, we arrive at another city which is only a day away from here, namely Wujiang. A large quantity of raw silk is produced here, and there are many businessmen and craftsmen. The best quality satin is produced in this city and sold to all parts of the province. " It can be seen that the silk trade between Wujiang and Shengze flourished at that time.

Take the machine as the field, and the shuttle as the Lei. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the silk production in Shengze began to be separated from agriculture. Shengze also became a professional town with both silk production and distribution functions. Three silk cities appeared successively, forming a grand event of "the water village into a city and Luo Qi taking the Central Plains".

The silk industry in Shengze flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and silk merchants from other places came to China. During the period from Shunzhi to Jiaqing, there were 8 clubhouses. This phenomenon is regarded as "rare in the country" by experts.

Shengze silk is famous for its excellent quality both at home and abroad. At the Turin Fair held in Italy in 1910, the best silk award was awarded to Shengze. In 1915, at the Panama Expo held in the United States, Shengze silk also won many gold medals and silver medals.

A silk goes round and round, and the silk gene flowing in the blood of silk people is endless. Its strong vitality is inherited from generation to generation, and it develops and innovates in the blending of multiculturalism.

After the founding of new China, there is no need to waste. In the second half of 1949, Shengze's silk industry was in a doldrums. The silk market was stagnant, its market was sluggish, and production was basically pause. Subsequently, the silk industry has been reorganized for several years, and in 1965, it formed a pattern of silk weaving factory, including Xinsheng, Xinhua, Xinlian and Xinmin, as well as silk dyed dyeing and finishing factory, Silk Dyed dyeing factory and two silk printing factories. The people of Shengze are called "four new" and "three dyed" respectively.

At first, there were many deficiencies in technology and management of "four new". They learned from others and learned from others' successful experience. For example, once the quality of the crepe de Chine in the Xinhua silk factory was not good enough, it went to the silk factory in Shanghai and Suzhou to ask for advice. "Tighten up gear" is a common disease of crepe de Chine fabrics, and it is also a "fatal wound" of product quality. Later it was heard that Shanghai solved this problem better and went to ask again.

In 1983, Zhejiang daily issued a document to learn about Wujiang silk industry.

In 1983, in the national quality evaluation of silk products in Hangzhou, the "four new" exhibition products won 4 first place among the 9 varieties, causing a sensation in the industry. The Zhejiang daily issued 3 articles on the front page, calling on Zhejiang silk enterprises to learn from Shengze counterparts. Since then, Shengze silk has gained popularity.

Push ahead and climb the peak. In the national quality evaluation of silk products organized by the then national economic committee, the "four new" and "three dyed" silk products have won 3 gold medal and 4 silver medal. In addition, Shengze has more than 100 silk products awarded the title of high quality products of Jiangsu Province, the Ministry of textile industry and the China Silk Corporation.

High quality Shengze silk, as a business card of Chinese silk, has become a popular commodity in the international market. It has been exported to nearly 100 countries and regions, and has earned valuable foreign exchange for the country. It has contributed to Wujiang's seizure of thirteen consecutive titles in the province's export earnings.

1986 Eastern Silk Market opens ribbon cutting ceremony

The establishment of China's Eastern Silk Market is another major event in the development of Wujiang's silk and textile industry. After the establishment of the market, the characteristics of "specialized, live, full and excellent" were gradually formed. Textile manufacturers from all over the country came here to set up business windows, and soon became one of the largest and most specialized silk textile markets in China. Since 2005, the turnover of China's Eastern Silk Market has been ranked the first place in China's textile and garment market for many years. It has become an important textile distribution center, price formation center and information dissemination center in China.

It can be said that "four new" and "three dyed" are the cream and incubator of Shengze's silk industry. It has trained talents and exported technology for the sustainable development of Shengze's silk textile industry. China's Oriental silk market has also trained a large number of private entrepreneurs for Wujiang, which is Wujiang's "Whampoa military academy".

Since the late 1990s, with the gradual transformation of state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises, Shengze's private economy has been developing rapidly. A large number of private capital has been concentrated on silk and textile industry in a short span of years. It has increased from 500 million yuan a year to investing 5 billion yuan and 10 billion yuan a year. At the same time, more than 1000 silk mills were newly built, and Shengze's silk and textile industry jumped to one. New height.

"In Wujiang, you will feel that its economic development is as spectacular as the spring tide." At that time, the mass magazine used this sentence to outline the vivid picture of Wujiang's economic development.

Shengze people have injected their own soul into reform, opening up and innovation, and economic development has jumped to a new level again and again. Shengze always stands on the "first phalanx" of China's town level economy.

In particular, a large number of outstanding entrepreneurs such as Xu Guanxiang, Yao Derong, Chen Jianhua and Miao Han have pioneered the way of breaking the shackles of the planned economy, and rapidly expanded and expanded the small family businesses.

Hengli Group Workshop

Synchronizing with the times and working with the national strategy. Founded in 1994, Hengli Group is an international enterprise with diversified development. In 2019, Hengli Group's total revenue was 556 billion 700 million yuan, ranking 181st in the world's top 500, becoming the largest chemical fiber enterprise in the country. Only if we have the right to speak and the right of pricing can we achieve breakthroughs in the industrial field. To this end, Chen Jianhua, chairman of Hengli Group, has drawn up a long-term blueprint for the development. From the weaving industry to the chemical fiber industry, the industry chain has been extended, and the "sweetness" brought back by the industrial chain has been tasted.

Sheng Hong group, which was founded two years earlier, continued to run on the road of innovation. "Innovation is an inexhaustible driving force for the development of enterprises. Sheng Hong has deeply rooted in the development of innovative genes, and has established a diversified, multi-level and multi-channel scientific research investment system to form the" strongest brain "of enterprise development. Sheng Hong Group Chairman Miu Hangen said. To this end, Sheng Hong Group has formulated the first international standard of China's chemical fiber industry, and its products and technologies can compete with the international giants, and is known as the "global differential fiber expert".

Silk textile industry has "dual attributes", not only "manufacturing industry", "people's livelihood industry", but also "urban industry", "fashion industry" and "creative industry". These attributes, in the final analysis, depend on the strength of culture.

Ancient Song Dynasty brocade

Song Jin, the "long time Kai", combines the ancient beauty of non heritage with the modern art, giving the Song Jin Gao Ding series clothing the different era, country, culture, history and artistic elements, and outlines the new image that conforms to the contemporary Oriental femininity. At present, the company has produced more than 50 heads of state and their families in the song and Jin Dynasties. Their beautiful and smart fashion designs show the unswervingly inheriting national culture. However, Hua Jia group has opened up a new path to break through homogeneous competition and set up a home silk brand "Sang Luo" and embark on the way to create a fashion brand.

"Silk is the world's 30%," in the east of Shengze, there is a "Chinese silk town" called Zhen Ze. "Fei Dasheng, the mother of Chinese silk", has opened the first place of modern mechanized silk reeling in China. Today, Zhen Ze has gathered hundreds of silk enterprises to form the industrial pattern of "Golden Flower leading, small flower follows closely, hundred flowers bloom".

Taihu snow party builds products

A hint of eight parties, old and new. Taihu snow silk Limited by Share Ltd, one of the "golden flowers", has not only set up the Taihu snow silkworm culture park, but also has mixed red and red tourism. Hu Yufang, chairman of the company, said that the sericulture industry is a green ecological industry. Taihu snow grasps the opportunities of the new era, makes cross-border electric business development well, and striving to become an international silk brand.

Another "Golden Flower" is equally imposing, and Suzhou Tsing Yun silk products Co., Ltd. is the industry representative drafted by the national standard of silk quilt, adhering to the spirit of brand with the spirit of craftsman.

Just past the full time is the most lively time of Shengze's first silkworm shrine. In the Qing Dynasty, the silk industry hall built by Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty will welcome the troupe to sing "Xiaoman opera" in turn every year, expecting the silkworm goddess to bless the cocoon harvest in those years.

After thousands of years of rain and wind, Wujiang's silk textile industry will never know "Xiaoman" until it climbs across the ridge.

Expert comment

Let the classic industry be full of vitality.

Shen Weixin, former director of District Archives Bureau

The silk industry is a classic industry that the ancestor left to Wujiang for thousands of years. It is also a beautiful name card for Wujiang's opening to the outside world.

The silk industry in Wujiang has a long history. In the Tang Dynasty, Wujiang had "no land and no mulberry", and the produced Wu Ling became a tribute. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the silk merchants gathered in Shengze, and the silk merchants in Shengze were all full of doors. They were built by the guild hall built by businessmen from Anhui, Shandong and Shanxi. In line with the "Silk Road", Wujiang's products are widely sold around the world. Entering the new century, Wujiang's silk industry has been constantly innovating and innovating and embarked on the road of high quality development. Zhen Ze has become a "Chinese silk town", and Shengze is moving towards the "fashion capital" from the ancient Silk towns and textile cities.

New flag art Qipao, buckle

In the tide of reform and opening up, the people of Wujiang are making an effort to focus on the silk industry. They make the "one silk" the ultimate and take the "silk" as the medium, from "line" to "surface", and have developed the cluster industry of electronic information, optical cable, elevator and so on, creating the "Wujiang experience".

The successful practice of the revitalization and development of Wujiang's silk industry fully reflects Wujiang's adherence to the real economy, the grasp of the global market, the pursuit of industrial chain division and cooperation, the emphasis on technological innovation, and the respect for the craftsmen's spirit. A vivid reflection of the development spirit of Wujiang.

Standing at the new historical starting point, Wujiang takes the mission of building the silk culture heritage and development benchmark as the mission, and firmly grasped the great opportunity for the construction of the Yangtze River Delta ecological green integration development demonstration area, and actively integrating into the "one belt and one road" construction, will surely make the ancient silk industry glow with vitality in its original place and in her hometown.

Carry forward the silk spirit and create new brilliance of silk capital

Shen Yingbao, deputy director of the former Shengze Town Economic Service Center

If we compare the history of Shengze to a river, then the silk culture will flow in this long river.

It can be said that the history of Shengze is a history of silk development. Since its birth, silk textile has always been a pillar industry to promote Shengze's economic development. For thousands of years, the Shengze people took the machine as the field, and the shuttle as Lei, and the husband woven his wife's collateral and his father's son, and became the silk name of "sunrise and silk, clothes and quilts".

After the founding of new China, the people of Shengze inspired the spirit and made innovation and development. The former "silk ancient town" was successfully created as the famous textile city today, forming a 100 billion level silk textile industrial cluster, a hundred billion scale specialized market of silk textiles and two hundred billion enterprises of Hengli and Sheng Hong.

Sheng Zedong spinning City

In the face of the new era and new situation, Shengze people have made the fashion capital as the upgrading road of industry, market and city, and actively integrated into the new pattern of integrated development of Yangtze River Delta, promoted economic development to high quality, promoted the development and upgrading of the industrial chain to the front-end, climbed to the high end of the value chain, and excavated Shengze's new energy and energy through fashion transformation. Developing the potential of the new economy.

Shengze's silk textile industry has been flourishing for thousands of years, relying not only on the material basis, but also on the support of spiritual strength. The long history of the development of the silk textile industry has long condensed into a thick accumulation of Shengze silk culture, forming a unique style of "mercantilism and pragmatism" and "inclusive and open" economic and cultural characteristics. With the flexibility, toughness and inclusiveness of silk to resolve the crisis, we need to change the spirit of Reiki, hard gas and life. We must constantly pursue the beauty, fashion and taste in the silk textile industry, and lead the new trend of clothing and fabrics. This is the silk spirit interpreted by the people of Shengze.

Shengze will continue to carry forward the silk spirit and create new splendor of silk.