Silk dates way further than the Tang dynasty. In fact it actually dates back to the neolithic period around 5000 years? Evidence is found in archaeological findings. However most people only know about the silk road as it is one of China's most well know pieces of History. The Tang dynasty was the dynasty which improved on silk processing and made silk known to the world.
@yingguojieke3 жыл бұрын
Really informative! Thankyou. So it was around for a very long time, but in the Tang Dynasty it was made more commonplace by improvements in technology?
@elleem39513 жыл бұрын
@@yingguojieke Silk had always been desirable back in the ancient Times and only people of status would have the privilege to wear silk. In the Neolithic period though, silk is found to be used for offerings to gods and religious rituals or funerals so silk would have something sacred. They also sometimes found coffins or the dead wrapped in Silk etc. in some graves of very important people. It was not until the Ming dynasty common people were allowed to purchase and wear silk.
@XiaoXingSean3 жыл бұрын
@@yingguojieke Elle is correct, I did a bit research to be more specific. The earliest pieces of silk products discovered so far are around 5500-6000 years. In Chinese mythology, 黄帝(the Yellow Emperor)’s wife 嫘祖 invented technique of producing silk, so silk is there for entire Chinese history. At the very beginning, production was very limited, so used by royal family only, then rapid increasing in QIN & HAN dynasties, due to more stable societies. The Silk Road established in HAN dynasty, which is also a proof of production on silk. Supplying must be excessive before exporting was considered, due to transportation and danger of travel back to that period.
@calitaco3 жыл бұрын
@@XiaoXingSean 5500-6000 years! That's just mind blowing! Imaging during that time, majority of the world was still wearing animal skins and fur.
@ypuchengzhi Жыл бұрын
@@yingguojieke 汉朝的时候丝绸的技术都很普遍了
@Chinaman79153 жыл бұрын
Correction to what Jack said about Shang Dynasty: 1. Shang Dynasty was not a "full" matriarchal society, but a semi matriarchal society. Shang Dynasty was still ruled by male kings/rulers throughout it's entire history. And also family names according to the royal family tree of the Shang Dynasty (Confirmed by oracle bone scripts and ancient texts), families still used male lineage surnames passing down to the next generations. So it's safe to say that the dynasty was still dominated and ruled by men, however compared to later dynasties women had more opportunities in society in the Shang Dynasty. It's almost like modern day society where men still dominate the world, but however women still have their equal opportunities such as owning their own business/land, management, joining the government as a political leader and joining the military service etc. 2. The currently found oracle bone scripts mostly mention women is mainly because Lady Fu Hao's tomb is pretty much the only royal family tomb that was left unlooted while pretty much all/most of the ancient Chinese kings/rulers tombs have already been looted long ago. And according to ancient texts/oracle bones script, Lady Fu Hao was a priestess at first in early life and became the second queen and also military general of Shang Dynasty later after marrying King Wu Ding of Shang Dynasty. Most of the oracle bones that were buried with and excavated from the tomb of Lady Fu Hao would obviously mostly mention the life and life events of Lady Fu Hao, but they do also mention King Wu Ding aka her husband and also important generals that served under her. Extra information about oracle bones and Shang Dynasty just in case if people didn't know or weren't aware of: Why we still have very limited information about the society and the rulers/men of the Shang Dynasty? Well according to ancient Chinese medicine, Long Gu 龍骨 was used and prescribed as medicine by Chinese pharmacies throughout ancient times. But little did they know that the Long Gu 龍骨 they were consuming were actually oracle bones lmfao. It was first discovered in the Qing Dynasty late 1800's by Wang Yi Rong when he was suffering from malaria and was prescribed Long Gu 龍骨 , and that's where he noticed strange carvings and symbols on the bones like an ancient form Chinese writing. Yinxu / Ruins of Yin aka Lady Fu Hao's tomb is well known for its oracle bones and was said to be first discovered in Qing Dynasty late 1800's. Hence it's safe to say that a lot/most of the history and information that was recorded during the Shang Dynasty have already been consumed/destroyed lol. But I really hope that's not the entire case, I do hope China can continue digging up and unearthing new oracle bones and ancient archaeology of the Shang Dynasty and before. One final thing I want to mention. During when Lady Fu Hao was alive, Shang Dynasty had a military capacity of tens and thousands of soldiers and around 600 of them enlisted at the time were women, most of them were said to be noble women too who had noble heritage. And also King Wu Ding's primary wife/queen Lady Fu Jing also took part in the military too and was also responsible for agricultural management of the dynasty/nation.
@Chinaman79153 жыл бұрын
Holy shit dayum i wrote an essay lol
@秀貞方-q3k Жыл бұрын
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@msmshappy11803 жыл бұрын
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👍👍👍👍👍interesting and informative..🙏🙏🙏Jack and lovely Mum..
@yingguojieke3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😃
@achtungbaby20093 жыл бұрын
Ming dynasty is Not a Mongol rule dynasty. It was Yuan Dynasty. Rebel forces led by Zhu Yuan Zhang's Ming Dynasty Kicked the mongols out of China back to northern mongolia.
this is amazing to see, i am happy more people are happy to seeing hanfu
@raymondlu9013 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@鄭先生-n8x2 жыл бұрын
感謝你的影片,我對漢服也是覺得好漂亮喔,感恩
@stevenlee96193 жыл бұрын
👍👏 Jack, great command of spoken n written Chinese, with the fluency of a native. Like the Barretts, Blondie in China n dad ~~ U n mum formed a great pair. Adds depth n context to the presentation. Keep 'em coming.! 👌🙏
According to Historical recording written by Si Maqian(born in BC145), Silk was invented by Huangdi's sister 嫘祖Luozu. But they are almost the being in the ancient legends, so nobody knows when did they live. All we know is that there where several great tribes and their leader called 三皇五帝 are the common ancestor of Chinese people. I guess they were lived at least 6000 years ago, because we already found remains of the ancient city called 良渚Liangzhu which was build 6000years ago
I would also like to say something about the origin of silk production. According to Legends silk was discovered by the wife of prehistoric Emperor Huang (黄帝). So we don‘t know the exact period of age. In 1972 an ancient tomb from the Han dynasty was discovered in Province Hunan(长沙马王堆). The mummy inside was wearing various silk clothes. Among other things, they found an silky single-layer thin coat that weighs only 49 g. Although this dress is 128 cm long and 190 cm wide, when folded it fits in a matchbox. Even with modern know-hows and technology, it has not been mastered to copy or reproduce a silk cloth as light as that today. Therefore, we believe that at that time (the body was buried around 168 BC that means 2100 years ago) , the Chinese had already a fairly complete understanding and practice of the manufacturing process of silk fabrics. In other words, the discovery and application of silk should have originated way more earlier. but since no earlier excavations have been discovered to date with well preserved silk fabric, we do not know the exact date of the discovery and application of silk. But that doesn't mean silk didn't exist more earlier than 2nd century BC. Since silk is an organic product, it is just very difficult to be well preserved in a grave after thousands of years.
Really like Jack's KZbin. I like to watch British movies, especially old days and i find there are similarities between UK and china in traditional dressing. manners, and jokes and stories happen in families which focus on family oriented. One day i will go traveling to Uk to trace the footprints of olden days in UK, especially the relax and national life in Jane Austen's works
The Ming Dynasty took back the China from the northern Mongolian barbarian (Yuan Dynasty).
@郑洋洋-f9b3 жыл бұрын
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@BackpackerDuanGuoXia2 жыл бұрын
A few Dynasties were missed. Great shows of ancient as long as Republic of China and People Republic of China. Fantastic history...
@adan20993 жыл бұрын
Pontang: There are centuries-old puntang shops in southern Fujian. They are called "honeycomb candy", "da pear cake" and "ginger candy" in northern China. They all do the same thing. Friends in Tianjin must not think that this is Korean. It is Tianjin's "Dali Cake". It was called "Camero" in Japan, and they are all the same thing, which originated from the court cakes of the Song Dynasty in China more than 800 years ago.。。。。。
@7wac7103 жыл бұрын
from your video,i can see that you really like chinese traditional😎😎😎😎
Silk is never an abandoned material, dated back to previous dynasties, only some higher ranking dynasty officials were qualified to wear clothes made from silk. For ordinary people, even very rich merchants or entrepreneurs, wearing silk clothes might bring you a death penalty.
@lucienliu18773 жыл бұрын
It is a pity there is no dressing for Han Dynasty in this vedio
@qianlin5519 Жыл бұрын
眉毛是有很多用处的,所以不能没有眉毛。
@wing37893 жыл бұрын
剛去了B站看原片,真的好美。可是到了解放那邊,好奇心讓我打開了彈幕,一堆的水軍,突然毛骨悚然。
@H无聊人2 жыл бұрын
你想多了吧,哪来的水军
@yueholic3 жыл бұрын
There is an extravagant gold thread red silk pleated skirt in XiAn which belonged to the Only Chinese Empress in history, Wu ZeTian in Tang Dynasty. Originally buried under the FaHua Temple as an offering to Buddha. You can see it now in a museum in XiAn. In Tang Dynasty, female has the same social status as men, we could choose to wear men's wear and divorce husbands as we liked.😆😆
@betojye11 ай бұрын
@luxingfeng20242 жыл бұрын
唐朝中国历史上最为强大和开放的时代,女子的服饰自然也开放包容了。
@xingyu13863 жыл бұрын
Silk has a long history, way before Tang. However, i don't think there is accurate archaeological evidence of when Silk became popular. My guess is that for a long time since the discovery of silk, it was a material reserved for the most privileged. The Silk road was established in Han, but i don't know how much silk was really traded as well as whether it was exported before because Silk road was rather just a formal establishment of an already existed route to the west. By Han, it was most certain that the royals at least all wore silk. By Tang, mass production of silk was made possible, so not only privileged people, but normal rich people could afford it. But i have to mind u, they counted only a small portion of the population, most of the common people did not wear silk. Silk was always a statement of social status in most ancient Chinese history.
@有才张2 жыл бұрын
穿的跟古书里画的一样,真的很神奇!
@征宇-v3z3 жыл бұрын
推荐自得琴社频道,他们的服饰非常接近历史
@dbrzy89893 жыл бұрын
shang dynasty was probably the actual ama-shang
@kkchung7947233 жыл бұрын
時代跳太快了,還有很多朝代沒有出來耶!
@sbackv09264 ай бұрын
「民國時期」是很不正確的說法,該時期應該稱做清末民初比較恰當 因為中華民國並沒有結束。
@ScarletDor3 жыл бұрын
等伏羲女娲政权能站得住脚了,这个视频就是一眼万年了
@jayleo8350 Жыл бұрын
The assumption of Shang dynasty being matriarchal is not correct, as all of known rulers were male. Some factual element of the conjecture for existence of matriarchal society is based on evolution of the family names. In the beginning, a family name had two components are, the first one representing family symble for mother's lineage, followed by the other for father's lineage. It is also known that there are eight most ancient and prominent family names that might be carried by tope leaders, all include the symbol 女, meaning famale. Hence it suggests that a period of matriarchal society could exist, before Xia dynasty that preceded Shang Dynasty. There is a long transitional period until around Qin dynasty when the dual-symbol structure of family names merged into single-symbol surnames.
@philipzhong3 жыл бұрын
我觉得中国人学习英语时也要向你学习,我们要学习英国的历史,每个朝代的不同。学习一下各地的英格兰苏格兰,爱尔兰等各地的方言。一些有代表性的连续剧。以前没有互联网的时代人们学英语问候语只学会了 how are you? I’m fine, and you? 我的英语朋友说,stop saying that, we don’t reply in this way. 不过我只能说,如果你在英语国家住了很长一段时间还是这样讲话,只能说你没有融入当地文化,英语没有进步。
@TW90244352 жыл бұрын
It was Huangdi's (Huang Emperor) wife Lei Zu who invented silk. It was 4400 years ago.
@孟圣凯3 жыл бұрын
看看就可以了,母系社会比夏朝还要早,商朝在夏之后
@aryansoe2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, millions of Chinese dont care a damn about traditional Hanfu. Sad but true 😥
@DucaTech2 жыл бұрын
Silk already existed during the Han Dynasty. As a matter of fact, the import of silk into Rome caused Emperor Trajan to ban silk imports because all the Roman Imperial treasury slowly draining (ahem deficit, ring a bell?). Unfortunately, the ban of silk import only increased the price in the black market. Rome eventually went so bankrupt that it couldn't finance the military campaigns. The rest is history. Despite silk came from China, they did not reap most of the profit. The biggest profiteers were Indian, Persian and Central Asian traders (the middlemen) who knew where to source the product and knew where the market demand was.