Abstract
With regard to the meaning and evolution of "Hangzhou Silk", the author uses the documentary research methodology to trim and verify from three aspects of industry name, product name and brand name respectively, attempting to find out the source of "Hangzhou Silk" from historical documents. Research shows that, as the industry name being called as "Hangzhou satin industry" or "Hangzhou silk weaving industry", it was generally called as the "Hangzhou Silk and Satin Industry” after the combination of Hangzhou Silk Reeling Industry Association and Hangzhou Silk Weaving Industry Association until 1952. As the product name being called as "Hangzhou silk” or “Hangzhou satin", it was called as “Hangzhou silk “after the China liberation. As the brand name, it referred to the specific silk products of Hangzhou region in particular after being awarded of protection as Chinese national geographical mark product since September 2011.
Highlights
With regard to the meaning and evolution of "Hangzhou Silk", the author uses the documentary research methodology to trim and verify from three aspects of industry name, product name and brand name respectively, attempting to find out the source of "Hangzhou Silk" from historical documents
Hangzhou silk is a combination of the geographical name "Hangzhou" and the product name "silk" from the literal meaning and a phrase with three connotations as industry, product and brand appeared in modern and contemporary writings from historical documents
The rise and development of Hangzhou silk industry can be traced back to the Liangzhu culture period (4000 to 5300 years ago). It is with a long history which originated from agriculture, extended to the silk weaving industry and commerce, and experienced the separation of silkworm mulberry planting industry and silk weaving industry, silk reeling industry and silk weaving industry, and integration of silk reeling industry and silk weaving industry with the upstream and downstream industry chain after the Chinese liberation
Summary
With regard to the meaning and evolution of "Hangzhou Silk", the author uses the documentary research methodology to trim and verify from three aspects of industry name, product name and brand name respectively, attempting to find out the source of "Hangzhou Silk" from historical documents. Inference that clothing mainly consisted of three categories including silk, kudzu and hemp during the Liangzhu culture period, Hangzhou ancestors had begun to engage in mulberry planting, silkworms cultivation and silk production four thousand seven hundred years ago.
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