Text |Chen Jia
Winter has arrived, and the chill is thick.
In the old bottom of the Xiuzhou.
Every winter. Always prepare a warm silk quilt.
This is perhaps the warmest sense of ritual in winter.
Gently softened and warmly ironed each person.
The agricultural proverb says: "The fields are full of gold, the ponds are full of silver, and the pearls hang on the mulberry branches." ”
In the south of the Yangtze River, where lakes and rivers meet, and where they have been rich since ancient times, the humble and bent rice is like a brilliant **, praising the diligence of the farmers here; The lively fish fry in the pond are like shining**, singing the praises of the warm climate here; The neat and rich silkworm cocoon is like a crystal pearl, witnessing a long-term old dream of the south of the Yangtze River - the silk dream.
From a bright silk, to a gorgeous silk, a bed of silky silk quilt, "silk", how much style has been woven into the land of Jiahe?
Silk is all too familiar to Chinese. China was the first country to raise silkworms and reeling silk, giving birth to a glorious sericulture civilization, and in the second century B.C., it opened up the world's first large-scale commercial exchange between the East and the West - the Silk Road.
Such a gorgeous silk fabric, like the "splendid morning glow of the East", all the treasures are eclipsed. The sun sets over the long river, the desert is lonely, and a large number of silk merchants come one after another, which has achieved a prosperous situation of "merchants and merchants, and Japanese money is plugged". The road stretches for thousands of miles, and even though it takes nearly a year to make a one-way trip, the merchants are still in a hurry, feverishly rushing to the mysterious "Seris Country" in the East.
Since then, silk has become synonymous with Chinese culture.
In the Xiuzhou area with a warm climate, the water town is full of rivers and ports, and the water is rich in soil and fertilizer, which is especially suitable for the production of sericulture. For example, the "new sericulture" that was passed down in the late Eastern Han Dynasty reached its peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties and the early years. Qing Niu Yunkui's poem "Song of Xinxi": "Whoever has a bride, 28 baskets to pick mulberry, and the silkworm workers are here, and the silk reeling spring coincides with Lang."
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the folk of Xincheng Town have also spread the custom of hand-making silk cotton quilts with "double palace cocoons" as a dowry for daughters. The so-called "double palace cocoon" means that two silkworms have made a cocoon. Such cocoons are messy, unable to be drawn, and therefore worthless. However, "Shuanggong cocoon" has a large silk content, but it is a good raw material for making silk quilts.
"Silkworm" means a long time, and "silk" represents the two compartments. The corners of the quilt are deliberately sewn obliquely, which has the same sound as "harmony", expecting the husband and wife to live in harmony; Some elaborate families also sew two coins on each quilt corner, wishing the newlyweds a ......lot of good fortune in their small familyA wedding red silk quilt embodies the good wishes of parents for their children's marriage, and is the never-ending interpretation and progression of the emotion of "love".
But silkworm work is hard, silkworm farming is not easy, silkworm raising is the hard work of the top of the Yangtze River. The silkworm farmers in Xiuzhou devoutly believe in the gods such as "Silkworm Flower Niangniang", "Matou Niangniang", "Silkworm Sangu" and "Ma Ming Wang Bodhisattva", hoping to protect the harvest. There are also silkworm customs such as "worshipping silkworms", "receiving silkworm flowers", "singing silkworms", "placing silkworm cats", etc., and strolling in Jiaxing, you can smell the breath of "silkworm flowers" everywhere, and almost all of your clothing, food, housing and transportation are related to silkworm customs.
In Xiuzhou, it was taboo to say "stiff", and homophony was not good. The reason for this is that one of the silkworm diseases is called "zombie silkworm", and the simple Xiuzhou silkworm farmers will say that soy sauce is "color", and the surname Jiang should also be renamed, or crowned with the surname of the husband. There is a village nearby that was originally called "Jiangjiadai", and in order to avoid secrecy, it was directly renamed "Silkworm Flower Dai" ......
A silkworm affair and a hard work, on this top priority of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, how many bittersweet and bitter memories are endless.
The lake is dense, the boats cross each other, and the silk style is infiltrated in the dense water vapor, which is a prosperous corner of the water vein; A wisp, the warp and weft are intertwined between the flying needles, sniffing the sericulture in the south of the Yangtze River, the ingenuity is at a glance, and here is a colorful silk town.
Farming and mulberry are carried out simultaneously, men and women weave, and the sound of the machine has echoed for 5,000 years. In the spring, in the "bright moon in a city, the sound of the machine in half the city", the sericulture family began to be busy, and the girl practiced embroidery skills day and night, especially the Suzhou embroidery in the area of the three towers on the bank of the ancient canal has been famous for a long time. So far, Xiuzhou still has a towering embroidery tower, and the beautiful legend of Xi Shi embroidery is spread.
Historically, the sericulture industry first supported the prosperity and prosperity of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with the Hangjiahu area as the most.
Among them, the silk ** in Jiaxing area is bustling with thousands of merchants, known as the "hometown of sericulture" and "the house of silk": Wangjiangjing, a small town in northern Zhejiang, "thousands of horses at sunrise, clothes are covered by several states and counties", and Jiashan has "inexhaustible Weitang yarn"; "The origin of Song Jin is Xiuzhou", Xiuzhou Aya was listed as a tribute in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was famous all over the world; By the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Jiahe rural areas were "full of mulberry forests", market towns were "silk cities", and urban and rural areas were "the sound of machine shafts endlessly" ......Saibei, Lingnan, Western Territory and Ryukyu and Luzon, all have the whereabouts of Jiaxing silk.
To say that Jiangnan silk is the best today, Jiaxin silk must be on the list.
Founded in 1983, this company has gone through the torrent of the times and always adhered to the innovation of silk technology and technology. As the first silk stock in China, Jiaxin Silk's product development and design cover Italy, the United States and Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and other countries and regions in China. A number of heavyweight honors and titles show that Jiaxin Silk has become an important leader of Chinese silk.
Silk is the first business card handed to the world on behalf of China. Rich, powerful, dazzling ......Until now, when talking about the word "silk", it can still trigger infinite reverie, which not only has the prosperity and mystery of the thousand-year-old country, but also carries the new expectations and new "symbolic" meaning of the modern silk industry.
In the long history of Chinese civilization, silk can afford the word "meritorious". It is like a trickle, accompanying the Chinese nation for 5,000 years. Nowadays, brushing away the "metaphysical" spiritual meaning of ancient times, silk is like a thread, vaguely connecting people's spiritual and cultural life, gently thin and closely following in daily life.
The Book of Poetry says: "The hooligans, hugging the cloth trade silk, the bandits come to trade the silk, and I will seek .......""Silk-like things have become a medium for young men and women in ancient times to convey their feelings. It is a poetic reverie, a symbol of romance, and a sustenance of people's beautiful feelings.
The spring silkworm is dead to the end, and the wax torch turns to ash and tears begin to dry. The ancients skillfully used "silk" to express emotional longing and profundity, and now they also often use spring silkworms to praise the teacher's hard work.
There are few idlers in the countryside in April, so the sericulture is planted again. "April in the countryside is a busy season for sericulture and weaving, and the picture of farmers' hard work and busyness and the joy of ushering in a bumper harvest are vividly on the paper. At this time, sericulture has also evolved to a certain extent into the most symbolic, romantic and poetic symbol in Jiangnan culture.
Blowing away the wind and sand of history, we have a glimpse of the silent moisturizing of sericulture culture. In the long history of the Silk Road, the gorgeous silk represents the supreme oriental luxury and aesthetics, and also gives birth to the aesthetics of the Chinese nation in the continuous evolution.
For thousands of years, silk has not only never withdrawn from the stage of history, but now it has become the darling of fashion, exerting vitality in the fashion trend. Walking into the Jiaxin Silk "Golden Three Towers" silk quilt production base, after multiple steps such as firing, peeling, opening, and pulling, the white and full cocoons turned into soft filament. The worker will pull the silk tire on the pure cotton **, and then after high-precision positioning and sewing, a soft silk quilt will be ready.
The texture of cotton twill, the softness and fluffiness of filament cotton, the "careful" piping, and the smooth white ......Everywhere you can see the collision and fusion of modern and simple fashion, imprinted with the distinctive symbol of "fashion Xiuzhou".
The influence of "silk" on the Chinese nation is far from limited to this. This year, when Premier Li Qiang made his first appearance at a press conference at home and abroad, he specifically mentioned the "Four Thousand Spirits" that circulated in the Yangtze River Delta region 40 years ago, that is, to travel through thousands of mountains and rivers, speak thousands of words, do everything possible, and endure thousands of hardships, so as to encourage the private economy to overcome difficulties and brave the wind and waves.
In Xiuzhou, the economic achievements of the "hard core" are particularly remarkable: there is no rich cotton resources, but the birth of "China's famous sweater town", with a population of less than 130,000 and an area of less than 55 square kilometers, but it has gathered more than 70,000 sweater industry practitioners and 8 large sweater markets, with an annual transaction volume of 20 billion yuan.
From an "agricultural region" to a "strong industrial zone" and then to a "national high-tech zone", in the 40 years since the establishment of the zone, the total industrial output value of Xiuzhou has increased from tens to thousands, and the industrial economy has developed by leaps and bounds. 0With a total financial income of 2.9 billion yuan and 6.6 billion yuan in 2023, we truly feel that Xiuzhou's "family foundation" is becoming more and more ......abundant
A silk thread connects the prosperous silk economy and magnificent sericulture in the south of the Yangtze River, and the spirit contained in it has long been precipitated in this water and soil, integrated into our spirit, and presented with the pioneering spirit and courage of people in the new era.
From Kanxiuzhou].