The origin of embroidery
The Origin of Embroidery
According to historical legend, there are records of painted patterns in the Huangdi era. That is to say, ancient primitive humans had long known how to use colors to beautify themselves. At first, the color is painted on the body, which is called “showing the body”; then it is further tattooed on the body, which is called “tattoo”; later, it is painted on the clothes, and then developed into embroidery on the clothes. “Shangshu” said that Yu Shun’s clothes were of various colors, with six patterns on the upper garment, namely, sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, and Chinese insects; and six patterns on the lower garment, namely Zongyi, algae, fire, pink rice, 黼, and 黻. , a total of twelve patterns, called twelve chapters. There are at least two types of embroidery here (referring to embroidery). The “Book of Rites·Jiyi Chapter” of the Zhou Dynasty said, “In ancient times, the emperor and the princes all had public offices to raise silkworms.
When the silkworms are ripe, they present their cocoons and reel them into silk, and dye them into red, green, black, yellow and other colors to create “Fu Fu Wen” (that is, using silk threads of different colors to embroider various patterns on the dress). According to “Cihai”, the word “黼(yinfu)” is interpreted as the half-black and half-white pattern embroidered on the ancient dress; the word “黻(note)” is interpreted as the half-green and half-black pattern embroidered on the ancient dress. As for the word “article”, it has become a word in modern Chinese with a very clear meaning, but in ancient Chinese, it has a different meaning. The embroidery with blue and red thread is called “wen”, and the embroidery with red and white thread is called “zhang”. In fact, the word “article” means “splendid” in ancient times, and later it was used as a metaphor. Another meaning of “wen” refers to painting, which is the same as “grain”. “Book of Rites, Yue Ling Pian” says that “Wen embroidery has permanence”, and according to the annotation, “Wen refers to painting. The tops of ancient sacrificial attire were painted, and the lower skirts were embroidered.” In short, embroidery originated very early and has existed since ancient times.
The earliest embroidery that can be seen now is of course the “dragon, phoenix and tiger pattern embroidery” unearthed from the Chu tomb in Jingzhou during the Warring States Period. This is a work using the lock embroidery technique on Luo Di, which is well preserved. In addition, there are embroidered silk with dragon and phoenix patterns unearthed from the same tomb, and Chu embroidery unearthed from Martyrs Park in Changsha, Hunan, which are also well preserved. They are good information for understanding ancient embroidery. In the cultural relics unearthed from Han tombs later, there were more embroideries. For example, the Mawangdui Western Han cultural relics include embroidered silk robes and yellow embroidered robes. The embroidery thread used was extremely fine and unprecedented. DDkKVM7a5
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