A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

Listening to the applause of the audience, behind Konoyama Jun, everyone in the neon delegation looked quite ugly.

But Konoyama Shun adjusted his mentality and was whispering something to Arai Junta.

On the stage, Li Yi raised his hand to suppress the applause and then said with a smile: "Thank you for your applause. I know that these applauses are not for me, but for our wise Chinese ancestors."

After making a small joke, which made the representatives from various countries present laugh, Li Yicai continued seriously: "The evidence of silk fabrics only represents that our country already had superb textile technology 5,600 years ago at the latest.

But if we examine the emergence of textile technology, it will take longer.

Silk fabrics, as well as textile tools and sewing tools such as pottery spinning wheels, bone spindles, and wooden hank sticks were unearthed from the Cao Xie Mountain Cultural Site in Suzhou.

Among the Neolithic sites in Meiyan Town, Wujiang, many relics were unearthed and collected, including seven flat circular spinning wheels. On the unearthed pottery decorations, there are two silkworm-shaped decorations.

Silk threads, ribbons and other silk fabrics were unearthed from the Yang Neolithic site in Qianshan, Zhejiang. The silk fabrics were identified as plain weave fabrics made of filaments twisted by silkworms, intertwined in warp and weft.

The earliest primitive loom was also unearthed at the Hemudu site in Yuyao, which shows that my country had mastered sericulture and textile technology as early as 6,000 years ago. "

Having said this, Li Yi stopped for a moment, turned his gaze to the Neon Country delegation office, and said with a slight smile: "This is the absolute leader in sericulture and textile technology. Many areas affected by our country's silk weaving culture, even in the 7th century, They also use the method of holding silkworms in their mouths to draw silk into silk, which is enough to show the difference in the level of mulberry silk weaving."

Hearing Li Yi's words, Konoyama Jun's eyes twitched.

He knew that the way Li Yi talked about holding silkworms in his mouth and making them spin silk was referring to the Neon Kingdom.

This sentence comes from the first volume of "Neon Secretary", "The Age of Gods".

"Neon Secretary" and "Kojiki" were compiled at the same time, eight years later than "Kojiki".

They were all compiled under the order of Emperor Tenmu at that time in order to declare his imperial authority.

Unlike "Kojiki", "Neon Secretary" is regarded as the earliest official history of Neon Kingdom, ranking first in the history of the Six Kingdoms.

But like the Kojiki, it is written entirely in Chinese characters.

When preparing materials for the UNESCO World Heritage application, Toshi Konoyama also checked the official history of this ancient book.

When he saw the method of extracting silk by holding a cocoon in the mouth recorded in the book, he already understood that the Neon Kingdom had not mastered the method of extracting silk from the cocoon, at least before that time.

Therefore, in the materials, he deliberately ignored this matter and did not even mention the book "Neon Secretary".

But he didn't expect that Li Yi had even read this book and found the key to life.

The ancestors of the Chinese nation were weaving silk with looms as early as 6,000 years ago, while the Neon Country was still spinning silk from cocoons in their mouths more than a thousand years ago.

Is this even necessary for comparison?

Taking a deep breath, he calmed down and comforted himself secretly.

There is no point in arguing about the origin, what matters is technological development.

Even if the silk weaving technology of Neon China developed relatively late, why can't it be developed more advanced than the Chinese people through the ingenuity of the Neon people themselves?

In the last century, the textile industry of Neon Country surpassed that of China!

Don't panic! Don’t panic at all!

On the stage, Li Yi put one hand in his pocket and held a laser pointer in the other as he walked out of the podium.

He had already entered the state, pointed at the photo on the curtain with a laser pointer, and introduced: "This silk fabric was unearthed from the Yin Ruins site in Xiaotun Village, Henan Province. The period of the site is the Shang Dynasty in the 16th century BC in my country. .

Pay attention to the surface of the silk fabric. Do you see the pattern on it? That is woven using jacquard technology.

This shows that more than 3,600 years ago, people of the Shang Dynasty were already proficient in using looms to produce such exquisite jacquard fabrics.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, my country transitioned from slavery to feudalism, and all countries began to enrich the country, strengthen the military, and develop agriculture and mulberry.

As a result, silk textile technology experienced explosive development again.

At that time, assembly line operations had already appeared for the production of weapons and tools. Similarly, the textile industry also had a division of labor.

As a result, silk textile technology began to differentiate, forming three major categories of silk fabric products: silk, qi, and brocade.

The brocade here is the predecessor of the Jinling Yun Brocade that we applied for World Heritage this time. "

Following Li Yi's explanation, the representatives from all over the world were fascinated.

Many representatives from small countries were shocked beyond measure when looking at the silk fabric cultural relics displayed in each photo.

Although most of these silk fabrics are damaged, the patterns revealed in the remaining parts and the delicacy of the texture can also be seen how exquisite they were when they were intact.

You know, these are silk fabrics from more than two thousand years ago!

In many countries and regions more than 2,000 years ago, people were still eating hair, drinking blood, and living in animal skins.

Seeing the overwhelming sense of history in the photos, representatives from various countries could not help but stand in awe.

This is a powerful and brilliant culture of an ancient civilization!

Standing on one side of the podium, Li Yi looked like a teacher teaching a group of primary school students.

"Xi Shi, one of the four famous beauties in our country, before she was presented to King Wu Fu Chai, she raised silkworms and weaved silk fabrics in her hometown Zhuluo Village, and she often washed yarn by the river next to the village.

The later name of the song "Huanxisha" comes from this allusion, and countless nouns were born.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the unification of Qin and the establishment of a centralized system laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

During the Western Han Dynasty, my country's silk production focus was mainly in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shu brocade from the southwest has become my country's most famous silk product.

It was also during this period that Zhang Qian went on a mission to the Western Regions and opened up the Silk Road. Shu Brocade was sold to Europe and became a top-quality commodity more precious than gold.

In order to strengthen the management of Shu brocade, the Eastern Han Dynasty government established a Shu brocade management agency in Chengdu, and set up brocade officials for management.

Therefore, Chengdu, Rongcheng, has the nickname Jinguancheng, which comes from this time. "

Shaking the laser pointer, the photos on the PPT were switched, and photos of silk fabrics appeared one after another. Li Yi introduced them one by one: "During the Warring States Period and the Han Dynasty, the popular brocades at that time were mainly two-color or three-color warp brocades with alternately displayed patterns. host.

In 1959, the All-things-Rushing Brocade discovered at the Fengnia site in the Western Regions was a typical brocade from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Both Jing brocade and Wei brocade appeared relatively early in our country, but because the weft density of Jing brocade is relatively low, it can be produced with only one shuttle, and the efficiency is relatively high.

Brocade weaving is more time-consuming, but more than two shuttles can be used, and the colors are easy to change and the colors are rich.

Therefore, most of the brocades woven before the Six Dynasties were warp brocades based on warp flowers.

After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, a large number of weft brocades based on weft flowers appeared. "

Having said this, Li Yi looked at the Neon delegation again.

Seeing Li Yi looking over, Konoyama Jun's heart suddenly thumped.

This guy has done nothing good every time he's looked at him. What does he want to do this time?

He expected it well, and sure enough, Li Yi immediately said: "You can find evidence of this from the information just presented by the representative of Neon Country."

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