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

But Kono Yamatoshi adjusted his mentality instead, and was whispering something to Junta Arai.

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 applause are not for me, but for the Chinese ancestors who gave us wisdom." ”

made a small joke, which caused the representatives of the countries present to laugh, Li Yicai Zhengse continued: "The physical evidence of silk fabrics only represents that at the latest 5,600 years ago, China already had exquisite textile technology.

But if you study the emergence of textile technology, it will be even longer.

Silk fabrics, as well as textile tools and sewing tools such as pottery spinning wheels, bone fusiform vessels, and wooden hank rods, have been excavated in the Straw Shoe Mountain cultural site in Suzhou Province.

In the Neolithic site of Meiyan Town, Wujiang, many relics have been excavated and collected, including seven pieces of flat circular spinning wheels. On the unearthed pottery ornamentation, there are two silkworm-shaped ornaments.

In the Neolithic site of Qianshanyang, Zhejiang Province, silk threads, ribbons and other silk fabrics have been unearthed, and the silk fabrics have been identified as plain weave fabrics interwoven with silkworm twisted filament as warp and weft.

In the Hemudu ruins of Yuyao, the earliest primitive loom was also unearthed, which shows that as early as 6,000 years ago, China has mastered the sericulture textile technology. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yi stopped, turned his gaze to the delegation of the neon country, and said with a slight smile: "This is the absolute leading sericulture of silkworm weaving, many areas affected by China's silk weaving culture, and even in the 7th century, they are still using the way of drawing silkworms into silk, which is enough to show the gap in the level of silkworm weaving." ”

Hearing Li Yi's words, the corners of Kono Shanjun's eyes twitched.

He knew that the way Li Yi said that the way he had silkworms in his mouth was talking about the neon country.

This sentence is from the first volume of "Neon Secretary", "God Dai".

The Neon Secretary and the Ancient Records were compiled at the same time, eight years later than the Ancient Records.

They were all compiled by order of Emperor Tenmu at that time in order to swear an oath to the emperor.

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

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

When preparing the materials for the World Heritage application, Kono Yamatoshi also checked the official history of this ancient book.

When he saw the way of pulling silk with a cocoon in his mouth recorded in the book, he already understood that the Neon Country had not mastered the method of peeling off the cocoon, at least before that time.

Therefore, in the material, 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 he had found his life with a sharp hit.

The ancestors of the Chinese country have been weaving silk with looms as early as 6,000 years ago, and the neon country was still using silkworm cocoons in their mouths more than 1,000 years ago.

Does this still need to be compared?

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

It is useless to argue about the origins, look at technological developments.

Even if the development of neon silk weaving technology is relatively late, why can't it be developed more advanced than the Chinese people through the neon people's own ingenuity and ingenuity?

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, and walked out of the outside of the podium.

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

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

This shows that more than 3,600 years ago, the Shang Dynasty people were already proficient in using looms to make this exquisite jacquard fabric.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, China transitioned from slavery to feudalism, and all countries began to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and develop agriculture.

As a result, silk textile technology has once again exploded.

At that time, there was already assembly line work for the production of weapons, tools, and similarly, there was a division of labor in the textile industry.

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

And the brocade here is the predecessor of the Jinling Yunjin that we applied for the World Heritage this time. ”

With Li Yi's explanation, the representatives of various countries on the scene were fascinated.

Many representatives of small countries were shocked to look at the silk fabric relics displayed in a photo.

Although most of these silk fabrics are damaged, the patterns revealed in the remaining parts and the fineness of the grain can also be seen how beautiful they are when they are intact.

You know, these are all silk fabrics from more than 2,000 years ago!

More than 2,000 years ago, many countries and regions were still drinking blood and wearing animal skins.

Looking at the sense of history in the photos, the representatives of various countries could not help but be in awe.

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

Standing on the side of the podium, Li Yi at this time seemed to be a teacher teaching a group of elementary school students.

"Xi Shi, one of the famous four beauties in our country, raised silkworms and weaved silk in his hometown Ramie Village before he was dedicated to Wu Wangfucha, and often washed yarn by the river next to the village.

The name of the song brand "Huanxi Sha" in later generations is from this allusion, and countless nouns were born.

By the time of the Qin and Han dynasties, the unification of Qin and the establishment of a centralized system laid the foundation for the strength and prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

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

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shu brocade in the southwest has become the most famous silk product in China.

It was also during this period that Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions to open up the Silk Road, and Shu brocade was sold to Europe and became a top commodity more precious than gold.

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

Therefore, Chengdu will have the alias of Jinguancheng, which is from this time. ”

Shaking the laser pointer, switching photos on PPT, and photos of silk fabrics appeared in turn, Li Yi introduced them one by one: "In the Warring States Period and the Han Dynasty, the popular brocade at that time was mainly based on the two-color or three-color warp brocade that showed flowers in turn.

In 1959, the Wishful Luck Brocade found in the ruins of Minfengniya in the Western Regions Province is a typical Jingjin in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Warp brocade and weft brocade appeared relatively early in China, but because the weft density of warp brocade is relatively low, only a shuttle can be produced, and the efficiency is relatively high.

The weft brocade weaving is more time-consuming, but more than two shuttles can be used, which is easy to change colors and rich in color.

Therefore, most of the brocades woven before the Six Dynasties were mainly warp brocades.

After the Sui and Tang dynasties, a large number of weft brocade based on weft flowers appeared. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yi looked at the neon delegation again.

Seeing Li Yi looking over, Kono Shanjun suddenly sighed in his heart.

Every time this guy looks at it, it's not good, what do you want to do this time?

He expected it well, and sure enough, Li Yi immediately spoke: "This point can be found in the materials just presented by the representative of the Neon Country. ”

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