Zhuang brocade is one of the most wonderful cultural creations of the Zhuang people with a long history. As early as the Han Dynasty, there was a saying in Buyi that "thin people should keep out the heat and soft people should keep out the cold". Smart Zhuang people make full use of plant fiber, weaving kudzu vine cloth and rolling cloth as clothing material. According to the records in Guangdong New Language at that time, this kind of cloth "should keep warm if it is thin, and keep out the cold if it is soft". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, archaeologists excavated several pieces of orange brocade in the No.7 pit of the Han Tomb in Luobowan, Guangxi, which proved that Guangxi had brocade skills in the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, according to the records in Six Books of the Tang Dynasty and Yuanhe County Records, nine kinds of fabrics woven by the Zhuang nationality at that time, such as banana cloth, bamboo cloth, northern Hebei cloth, banbu cloth, Duluobu, linen cloth, silk and grain, were all listed as tributes of the feudal dynasty. "White" praised Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty, saying that "Jiao Jiao is white and fresh, so it is called a teenager in spring clothes".

This means that people wearing white ramie cloth look much younger. Zhuang brocade has experienced the development and changes from monochrome to colorful and from simple to complex. The fragments of orange brocade unearthed from the Han tomb in Luobowan, Guigang can be regarded as the origin of Zhuang brocade. In the Tang Dynasty, plantain cloth, bamboo cloth, chicken back cloth, variegated cloth and silk of Zhuang nationality became court tributes. But textiles that can really be called "gold" appeared in the Song Dynasty.

During this period, the textile industry of Zhuang nationality developed further, and besides ordinary fabrics, silk, hemp, silk and cotton brocade appeared. In the Song Dynasty, the cloth with "thick white stripes" was an early gorgeous brocade.

During the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Lu Dafang founded the Jin Shuyuan in Sichuan. Among the four tapestries, Guangxi brocade is a kind of satin silk, which embodies the preciousness of brocade. According to Fan Chengda's Gui Yu Hai in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhuang brocade was produced in the left and right rivers of Guangxi at that time, which was called "carbonyl cloth".

At that time, the "light cloth" produced by "Zhou Liangjiang Cave" was "a line like China and small Fang Shengwen everywhere". Fei Qu said in A Dai Beyond the Ridge that flannel is "white, square, wide and thick, like a line between China and the United States, while beauty is heavy and sincere, and she wears it sincerely in the south".

The so-called "white pattern" refers to the Zhuang brocade produced at that time. Its decorative pattern is a checkered geometric pattern, and its tone is monochrome. This is an early brocade, characterized by "weight" and plaid pattern.

In the Song Dynasty, the handicraft textile industry of Zhuang nationality was more developed. At that time, the Song Dynasty needed "silk and silk brocade as munitions", and established a "Golden Shu Institute" in Sichuan to transport a large number of Jin Shu to Guangxi and then export it from Guangxi.

The Zhuang people quickly accepted the Shu brocade craft, and the famous Zhuang brocade was born. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhuang brocade became more and more popular, and its craftsmanship became more and more exquisite. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, dragon and phoenix brocade became a tribute to the court.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhuang brocade developed into weaving with wool of various colors, which made Zhuang brocade present gorgeous colors. Although it is still a royal tribute, ordinary people can enjoy it. At that time, every state and county had production. Zhuang people like picking. Every dress and towel is theirs. They are made of five-color wool, such as flowers and birds.

When you get married, you must have a small brocade quilt cover for people in your hometown to knit. Gold made of five-color willow hair is thick and durable, and it is worth five taels. A dissatisfied daughter will learn to knit a sweater. "Zhuang brocade not only becomes the daily necessities and decorations of Zhuang people, but also the weaving of Zhuang brocade is indispensable for Zhuang women." The red brocade of Zhuang women is an indispensable part of dowry. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Zhuang brocade began to decline.