The Application And Influence Of Silk in Modern Times

Silk is a kind of textile, woven with silk or synthetic fiber, artificial fiber, short silk, etc.; it is a general term for fabrics woven or interwoven with silk or artificial silk.
In ancient times, silk was a textile woven with silk (mainly mulberry silk, but also a small amount of tussah silk and cassava silk). Due to the expansion of textile raw materials in modern times, all textiles woven with artificial or natural filament fibers in the warp can be called silk in a broad sense. Silk woven with pure mulberry silk is also called "real silk".
Silk originates from mulberry trees, is taken from silk, and is woven with fine craftsmanship to produce silk and satin, which highlights the honor of nobility. More than 5,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Chinese nation invented mulberry planting, silkworm breeding, silk reeling and silk weaving. Later, Huangdi, Yao, and Shun hung clothes and the world was governed. More than 2,000 years ago, silk opened up economic and cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and also witnessed the Eastern civilization going to the world. As a great invention of ancient China, silk has become an important symbol of Chinese civilization.

Silk is a specialty of China. The ancient Chinese working people invented and mass-produced silk products, which opened up the first large-scale trade exchange between the East and the West in world history, known as the "Silk Road". Since the Western Han Dynasty, Chinese silk has been continuously shipped abroad in large quantities and has become a world-famous product. At that time, the road from China to the West was called the Silk Road by Europeans, and China was also called the "Silk Country".