In the brocade family, the craft of Nanjing Jinyun Brocade is the essence of China Royal Weaving, and it is "the best" in the weaving industry, representing the highest level of China Brocade Skills.
Yunjin, known as the last milestone in the history of ancient brocade technology in China, was born out of Chu brocade and Han brocade in Qin and Han dynasties, and directly integrated Wu brocade technology in the Three Kingdoms period. Since the Yuan Dynasty, Yunjin has been a special material of royal costumes, serving the royal family for more than 700 years.
Nanjing Yunjin can enter the World Heritage List, and its main features are:
First of all, it is beautiful and a treasure of China. Nanjing Yunjin is regarded as a "Chinese treasure" and "Chinese stunt" for a reason. She is named for its gorgeous colors and beautiful clouds in the sky. It is exquisite in materials, exquisite in weaving, exquisite in design, gorgeous in brocade pattern and elegant in style. It is developed on the basis of inheriting the excellent tradition of brocade in previous dynasties, and integrates the valuable experience of other silk weaving techniques, reaching the peak of silk weaving technology, representing the highest achievement of China silk weaving technology, concentrating the essence of China silk weaving technology and being the brilliant crystallization of China silk culture.
Second, the workmanship is fine, and the gold is not rotten. It applies core technologies such as "warping and weft breaking" to large looms with complex structures. It is manually operated by two people, weaving luxurious fabrics with silk thread, gold thread and peacock feather wool. When operating, the last one carefully and attentively held the warp. The following people are looking up, shuttling around the warp, taking care of both up and down. "It is still difficult to reel silk and weave it, but it is difficult to change it into weaving" is a true portrayal of brocade artists. At that time, two people could only knit 5-6 cm a day, so Nanjing Yunjin was also called "inch brocade inch gold".
Third, the characteristics of "four beauties" are rare in the world. Nanjing Yunjin has a complicated weaving process and beautiful shape. World-renowned scholars and experts can sum up their cultural and artistic characteristics as "four beauties", that is, the beauty of artistic modeling design, the beauty of harmony between warp and weft colors and the exquisite principle of technological innovation, which contains the beauty of patterns. These "four beauties" are rare in China and even the world.
Fourth, it has a long history and continues to this day. Since the Yuan Dynasty, Yunjin has been a special product for royal clothing. In the Ming Dynasty, the brocade technology became more and more mature and perfect, forming the local characteristics of Nanjing silk jacquard brocade. Its woven robes and phoenix clothes, palace curtains, mandarin jackets and cheongsam, and the supplementary clothes of civil and military officials are all classified, which embodies the supremacy of imperial power and strict hierarchy and is favored by the feudal ruling class. At the same time, it caters to the sensationalism, blind worship and pursuit of happiness and good fortune of social and rural parties, and is loved by the grassroots, so it has a broad living space. "The picture must be intentional, and the meaning must be auspicious", these elements that express good luck and wishful thinking, have become the excellent traditional culture that the Chinese nation continues to inherit.