In the Tang Dynasty, sericulture became more popular, and the variety, output and quality of silk weaving were amazing. As early as the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Xue Jianxun, the messenger of Jiangdong, ordered the sergeant to marry back the women with superb silk weaving skills in the north to improve the silk weaving skills in Jiangnan. By the time Shili came to power in Tang Dezong (742-805 AD), Zhejiang and Guangdong had become the main collection areas of royal silk.

Representative famous silk products in Tang Dynasty, such as Lingluo in Jiannan and Hebei. Jiangnan yarn; Satin from two states in Peng Yue; Silk in Song and Mili States; Changzhou silk; Silk in Runzhou; Yizhoujin, etc. There are more than ten kinds of silk, such as thin silk, red silk, double-color silk and cloud silk. One of the most famous is the bright silk in the south of the Yangtze River.

Bai Juyi (AD 772-846), a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, was a historian of Suzhou, during which he experienced the wonder of Suzhou silk weaving and wrote poems to commemorate it. Judging from the description of texture, color and decoration in the poem, it should be a kind of filament interwoven with blue and white, and it is very delicate and light. Among Suzhou's tributes, there are silk, silk floss, vermilion silk, eight silk and other fine products, which were deeply loved by the royal family in the Tang Dynasty. Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685-762 AD), praised Wu Jun's tribute as square silk.

In the Tang Dynasty, the silk industry was also divided into government-run and private. The official silk weaving is managed by the weaving and dyeing department and mainly supplied to the royal family. Local governments have also set up brocade workshops.

In the Tang Dynasty, the central weaving and dyeing department had a fine division of labor and a huge organization. * * * Set up twenty-five "works", including ten woven works: cloth, silk, yarn, twill, luo, brocade, neat, brown, etc. There are five ribbons woven with patterns: balls, ribbons, ribbons, ropes and tassels; ? There are four lines: , line, string, net; There are six kinds of dyeing exercises: cyan, crimson, yellow, white, soap and purple.

A typical feature of the prosperous period is the specialization of the division of labor of consumer goods. The aforementioned Han Dynasty was like this, and so was the Tang Dynasty. In the history of China, only the Han and Tang Dynasties can "consume" so many famous silks.

Foreign influence on silk in Tang Dynasty

Silk fabrics and costumes in the Tang Dynasty are quite exotic, which is closely related to the western civilization spread eastward along the Silk Road.

The influence of foreign civilization on China silk and silk clothing began with the opening of the Silk Road. For example, the reeling method in silk comes from the reeling technology of wool fabrics in the western regions. Woolen products were introduced from Da Yue, Rest, Daqin and other countries in the Han Dynasty, which influenced China's fabrics and clothing. All kinds of music and dance costumes imported from the western regions have also aroused great interest of the people in the Central Plains, including some emperors, such as Emperor Liu Hong (A.D. 156- 189) at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who was deeply involved in the art of the western regions and often wore Shang Hu clothes to drink and have fun. Under his influence, at that time, all the dignitaries in Luoyang regarded dances such as dancing, dancing and dancing as fashion.

The influence of Chinese and Western civilizations on China silk decorative patterns is more significant. There is a winged beast on the silk of Han Dynasty found in Yinwula, Monguno. On the blue calico unearthed from the Eastern Han Tomb in Minfeng, Xinjiang, there are half-naked Bodhisattva statues in Indian Gandhara style and traditional dragon patterns in China. Grape grain was unearthed in Niya (now north of Minfeng County, Xinjiang 150km) in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was common in the Western Regions. With the introduction of Buddhism, gold and silver patterns, lotus patterns, bird beads and lion patterns gradually became popular, especially in the Tang Dynasty. Those honeysuckle patterns used symmetry, balance, dynamic and static combination and other methods to form various shapes of side ornaments, or transformed into vines and branches, all with obvious artistic style of Persian Sassanian dynasty, including lotus and pearl ornaments. A number of Tang Dynasty scripts have been unearthed in dulan county, Qinghai Province, which are Persian characters, meaning "King of kings, great and glorious" and have obvious foreign cultural characteristics. Because the Tang Dynasty Empire had a great influence on the East and the West at that time, just like the traditional clothing in China was called "Tang suit", it was also called "Tang grass pattern".

Generally speaking, on the basis of extensively absorbing foreign civilizations, Datang Silk has spread these new creations to all parts of the world and exerted a wide influence in the world.