Study on the Origin of Textile Technology in Ancient China

2011 ◽  
Vol 332-334 ◽  
pp. 2045-2049
Author(s):  
Qiang Li ◽  
Bin Li
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Textile Design ◽  
Technology System ◽  
Production Department ◽  
Folk Custom ◽  
Textile Technology ◽  
Main Production

Some researchers use the drawing about primitive hunting with stone balls in order to explain the origin of textile technology in ancient China. However, the description in the drawing is inconsistent with the historical facts and lead to a wrong conclusion drawn by the researchers. We aimed to explain objectively the origin of the textile technology in ancient China. We have had some queries for the authenticity of the drawing after we made some archaeological and folk-custom investigations on the application of primitive stone balls. It is concluded that the origin of spinning in ancient China dated back to the upper Palaeolithic period and was an indispensable link of human evolution from ape man to human, but the origin of weaving in ancient China dated back to the Neolithic period. Only when the primitive farming became the main production department and the explosion of population required the substitute of clothes made of hide, did the spinning, weaving and textile design merged together and finally resulted in the formation of the textile technology system.

Study on the Relation between the Linked-Pearl Pattern and Weaving Technology in Ancient China

2011 ◽  
Vol 332-334 ◽  
pp. 2093-2098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Li ◽  
Qiang Li
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Pattern Design ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Textile Technology ◽  
Weaving Technology ◽  
The Silk Road

The linked-pearl pattern on fabric is a key to study on the transformation of the technique from weaving warp-faced patterns to weft-faced patterns in ancient China. However, the previous studies on the linked-pearl pattern on fabric were not very clear, and led to much misunderstanding. Some researchers believed that Chinese weavers did not master the technique of weft-faced patterns until Persian merchants introduced the brocades with a pattern featuring stringed ball into China along the Silk Road. Based on the studies on historical materials and archeological discoveries of the linked-pearl pattern on fabric, we hold that there are positive connections among the linked-pearl pattern, the technique of weaving weft-faced patterns and the draw loom. The dissemination of the linked-pearl pattern prompted the development of pattern design and the wide application of weft-faced pattern on fabric, even the invention of the draw loom which accelerated the development of textile technology in ancient China.

scholarly journals Research on the origin of clothing from the perspective of the ancient Chinese character etymology and philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (06) ◽  
pp. 651-658
Author(s):  
QIANG LI ◽  
ANDING LIU ◽  
BIN LI ◽  
YIXIAO LI ◽  
XIANMING XU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rate ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Chinese Character ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
The Ancient Chinese

The origin of clothing has always been one of the most important topics in the field of apparel culture research. However, academics have different opinions on this issue. Based on the dilemma analysis of the three research routes which include philology, archaeology, anthropology, we can study the essence of the origin of clothing by analysing ancient Chinese character and philosophy. The relative methods of characters etymology in ancient China, archaeology, anthropology and philosophy are adopted in this study in order to further study the origin of clothing. The research shows that: from etymology research on characters in ancient China, Chinese characters associated with clothing can reflect the objective needs of clothing-the carrying tools whose material are cortex. From the perspective of philosophical researches, clothing prototype originated in the cortical belt for carrying in the process of human evolution during the Palaeolithic. It is an important tool for primitive humans to increase their survival rate. And formed clothing is necessary for them to get out of the Africa and expand their living space. First of all, this paper systematically demonstrates the idea that clothing originated from tools based on the analysis of ancient Chinese characters. Secondly, from the perspective of philosophy, this paper demonstrates the great historical role of clothing as a survival tool, based on the viewpoint that the generation of clothing precedes the consciousness of clothing.

scholarly journals The development of the spinning wheel in ancient China

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (02) ◽  
pp. 120-124
Author(s):  
RAO JUE ◽  
LONGDI CHENG ◽  
YUNYING LIU
Keyword(s):  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Truncated Cone ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

As textile demand increased in ancient China, the spinning wheel became more widely used in the Neolithic era and was responsible for the main spinning tasks over the last few thousand years. This work explores the changes over time in the shape, diameter, and thickness of the spinning wheel in the Cross-lake Bridge, Hemudu, Yangshao, Qujialing, and Shijiahe cultures. The disc-like shape, mound-like shape, bead shape, and truncated cone shape are deemed to have been the best spinning wheel forms in the later stages – especially the disc-like spinning wheel. The spinning wheel with a diameter of 2–9 cm and a thickness of 0.1 to 9.0 cm was used throughout prehistoric times. In the late Neolithic period, a disc-like spinning wheel with a diameter of 3–4 cm and a thickness of less than a cm was the most frequently used design. This study shows that the change in the shape, diameter, and thickness of the spinning wheel is the inevitable result of the change in the tool’s design points, thereby revealing improvements in spinning efficiency

scholarly journals Obsidian in the prehistoric Aegean: Trade and uses

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Mailinta Tsampiri
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Sharp Edges ◽  
Prehistoric Aegean

This paper studies the prehistoric use of obsidian quarries in the Aegean. Obsidian sources in the eastern Mediterranean have been traced on certain islands of the Aegean: Melos, Antiparos and Giali. Due to its hardness, this material was already being used by the end of the Upper Palaeolithic to produce blades with sharp edges to serve as knives, scrapers and razors, arrowheads and spears, axes, saws and mattocks. This naturally occurring glass was also used for ornamental purposes. During the Late and the Final Neolithic Period (ca. 5300-3200 B.C.), when the systematic habitation of the Cyclades developed, the transportation of obsidian was incorporated in the gradually developing trade networks of the Aegean. The material was much in demand in the early Bronze Age. During the later Bronze Age its use declined and by the classical period it seems to have been replaced by metal. Around 1100 B.C. the use of obsidian was discontinued because of the increasing popularity of metals. During the Roman period obsidian, was used in the manufacture of mosaics and decorative objects, such as mirrors

scholarly journals ПОЛЕВЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ МНОГОСЛОЙНОЙ СТОЯНКИ РАХАТ в 2018 г.

2018 ◽  
pp. 215-223
Author(s):  
Ермек Аманжолович Джасыбаев ◽  
Дмитрий Викторович Ожерельев ◽  
Талгат Базарбаевич Мамиров
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Arid Zone ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Core Area ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
The Core ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Early Upper

В статье изложены результаты полевых исследований 2018 г., проводившихся на многослойной стоянке Рахат. Данный объект является уникальным для изучения древнего периода Жетысу и близлежащих регионов, так как памятники с сохранившимся культурным слоем эпохи палеолита в регионе единичны. Проведенные международной командой работы позволили проследить мощность культуросодержащих отложений и показали наличие восьми культурных слоев сохранившимися in situ. Памятник имеет большой научный потенциал и перспективу исследований. Археологические материалы показывают, что человек впервые появился здесь в конце среднего – начале верхнего палеолита и в дальнейшем посещал это место неоднократно на протяжении нескольких тысяч лет. Несмотря на незначительную каменную коллекцию, становится ясно, что инвентарь из разных слоев делает возможным проследить изменения археологической культуры каменного века второй половины позднего плейстоцена на территории северных предгорий Тянь-Шаня. Это, в свою очередь, позволяет с максимальной долей достоверности проводить исследование погребенных материалов с возможностью создания локальных либо более масштабных периодизационных схем появления и развития верхнепалеолитических индустрий (культур, комплексов) Азии. Стоянка Рахат является вторым стратифицированным памятником позднего палеолита всего Юго-Восточного Казахстана, на которой начаты и будут продолжены комплексные научные исследования. Библиографические ссылки 1. Артюхова О.А. Проблемы позднего палеолита Казахстана // Известия НАН РК. Сер. обществ. наук. 2010. № 1. С. 3-8. 2. Бексеитов Г.Т., Оспанов Е.Б. Исследования на позднепалеолитической стоянке Рахат в Семиречье // Новые методы исследования в археологии: матер. междунар. научн.-практ. конф. Алматы: Қазақ университетi, 2016. С. 163-167. 3. Додонов А.Е. Четвертичный период Средней Азии. М.: ГЕОС, 2002. 250 с. 4. Кусаинов С.А. Четвертичная геология (основы и методы исследования). Алматы: Қазақ университетi, 2017. 330 с. 5. Мамиров Т.Б. Новые материалы по палеолиту Юго-Восточного Казахстана (по данным разведочных работ 2006 года) // Археология, этнология, палеоэкология Северной Евразии и сопредельных территорий: матер. 47 рег. археол.-этногр. конф.студентов и молодых ученых Сибири и Дальнего Востока (г. Новосибирск, 3–4 апреля 2007 г.). Новосибирск, 2007. С. 27-28. 6. Ожерельев Д.В. Археологические работы экспедиции КазНУ им. аль-Фараби по изучению памятников каменного века в Казахстане в 2004 году // Вестник КазНУ. Сер. историч. 2005 № 3 (38). С. 100-111. 7. Ожерельев Д.В. Открытия палеолита в предгорьях Заилийского Алатау (Юго-восточный Казахстан) // Археология, этнология, палеоэкология Северной Евразии и сопредельных территорий: матер. 47 рег. археол.-этногр. конф. студентов и молодых ученых Сибири и Дальнего Востока (г. Новосибирск, 3–4 апреля 2007 г.). Новосибирск, 2007. С. 33-35. 8. Ожерельев Д.В. Новейшие открытия палеолитических памятников в Юго-восточном Казахстане // КСИА. 2012. Вып. 227. С. 182-191. 9. Таймагамбетов Ж.К., Ожерельев Д.В. Позднепалеолитические памятники Казахстана. Алматы: Қазақ университетi, 2009. 256 с. 10. Таймагамбетов Ж.К., Ожерельев Д.В. Изучение стратифицированной стоянки Майбулак в Жетысу (Юго-восточный Казахстан) в 2004–2007 гг. // Мирас. 2008. № 1. С. 70-85. 11. Fitzsimmons K.E., Iovita R., Sprafke T., Glantz M., Talamo S., Horton K., Beeton T., Alipova S., Bekseitov G., Ospanov E., Deom J.-M., Sala R., Taimagambetov J., 2017. A chronological framework connecting the early Upper Palaeolithic across the Central Asian piedmont. Journal of Human evolution. 113. 107-126. 12. Feng Z.-D., Ran M, Yang Q.L., Zhai X.W., Wang W., Zhang X.S., Huang C.Q., 2011. Stratigraphies and chronologies of late Quaternary loessepaleosol sequences in the core area of the central Asian arid zone. Quatern. Int. 240. 156-166.

Affinities of European Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens and later human evolution

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.N. van Vark ◽  
A. Bilsborough ◽  
W. Henke
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic

scholarly journals On Textile Poetry in Textile Social History in Qin and Han Dynasties

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Chunguang Ren ◽  
Xiaoming Yang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Textile Production ◽  
Textile Trade ◽  
Textile Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Economic Development ◽  
The Relationship

This paper begins with the textile poetry of the Qin and Han dynasties. Using the method of mutual proof of poetic history，as far as possible from the textile production, textile technology, textile trade and textile culture to outline a complete clue of the history of the textile society in the Qin and Han dynasties. Trying to clarify the changes of textile culture and costume system in ancient China and to explore the relationship between textile production and social-economic development.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document