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Silk in Chinese
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How about getting a new Silk Saree for your Mom, for your wedding reception. When you say wedding all out mind gets into the fact of colourful women and men in the silk sarees and silk shirts a traditional one. The Silk gets a mark in each and every nook and corner in the Sub-Continent as well as in Asia and Europe. Silk has long throwback in History. The first Commercial silk was actually produced about 8500 years back. Started in the Jiahu, Henan in China.
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| Mulberry Worm Cocoon, Source: 123RF.com |
The Silk is actually produced from the mulberry worms(Bombyx mori) from their Cocoon by wearing of the threads from the Cocoon and spin into yarns. What actually this Silk is different from the woollen threads. These silk threads have a specials kind of molecular structure which reflects the sunlight into a different colour. This makes the silk a special appearance and gives it a royal look. You may hoe this silk from a small village reach the whole of Asia and Europe. Actually, silk gives rise to the Chinese economy and so many cultures and religion. After the invention of silk it uses had been spread to different countries so its demand had been increased. The Chinese traders started the sell of the silk to India, Kazakhstan and Greece.
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| Genghis Khan, Source: RadioWest |
During their travel route, they also sold some of the silk cloths. They followed a regular path. And the Kingdom where they travel through their route asked for royalty to pass them through their kingdom. In return, they protected them from the robbers. Due to this, there is a greater demand for the land which the silk route passes. And many invasions were made into these routes Until the Mongolian Dynasty. After the Mongolian rule under Genghis Khan who covered a major part of Asia, the taxes were reduced due to a single empire.
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| Silk Route, Source: Wikipedia |
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| Tower in Puhar, Source: Flicker |
The Silk Route covers Both the Land and the Sea. In India, the Southern Part of the Indian Subcontinent such as the Kaveripumpatiinam present Puhar in Tamilnadu, Pondicherry, Karnataka, Maharashtra was connected by the waterways and the Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh were the cities covered with the silk route which were in the tentative list of UNESCO 's World Heritage Site.
The silk route had covered a vast area such as the Java in the South, Kazakasthan in the North, Europe in the west and Japan in the East.
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| Silk Saree, Source: Scoopwhoop |
There are various types of silk sarees such as,
- Chanderi Silk Saree
- Banarasi Silk Saree
- Assam Silk Saree
- Sambalpuri Silk Saree
- Kanchipuram Silk Saree
- Baluchari Silk Saree
- Konrad Silk Saree
- Paithani Silk Saree
- Patola silk Saree
- Mysore Silk Saree
- Bomkai Silk Saree
- Bhagalpuri Silk Saree and so on.
These were varieties based on the taste of the local people they were transformed but they all have the same common origin with a millennium of stories in the History. And India is the Second Largest Producer of Silk in the World. India's Sericulture is from 52,360 villages among these villages most present in this silk route and generates employment of 8.6 million people in India. If you any suggestion for us, feel free to have your comment on the comment box. And want to follow just hit the subscribe button. Happy Wedding...
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