"Centennial Susi" Returned To Shanghai

On August 19, Jiangsu Susi Silk Co., Ltd. held a press conference on the return of "Century Susi" to Shanghai and the opening ceremony of Susi Shanghai Exhibition Store in Shanghai.

Han Xingwang, chairman of Jiangsu Susi Silk Co., Ltd., said that after several generations of Susi people's hard cultivation, this "red plum" that once bloomed in Shanghai has gradually grown into a famous silk enterprise at home and abroad.

At present, the production scale of Susi has grown from 2100 silk spindles when the factory was relocated to 30000 spindles, becoming a collection of silk home textiles Clothes & Accessories , silk spinning, weaving, 10000 mu sericulture base, and more than 50 Suzhou silk stores and agencies as one of the large-scale trade, industry and agriculture comprehensive enterprises. In 2011, it achieved sales revenue of 432 million yuan and profits and taxes of 26 million yuan, ranking among China for four consecutive years spin clothing Top 500 enterprises, the top 10 in China's silk industry, and the "Susi" brand is listed among the top ten Chinese silk brands.

Han Xingwang said that the company was born with the support of Shanghai and started with the equipment and technology in Shanghai. The excellent tradition of the company cannot be separated from the 168 employees and accompanying families from Shanghai who came to Siyang, Jiangsu. The opening of Susi Shanghai Exhibition Store realized Susi's wish to return to Shanghai for a century. As an envoy of Chinese traditional culture, Susi will use Shanghai as an international arena to silk The culture will be better inherited and carried forward.

Susi Exhibition Store is located in the Grand View Garden of "Princess Mothering", Siping Road, Wujiaochang, Yangpu District, Shanghai, for display and sales Silk textiles , home clothes, clothing and apparel.

Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province— — "Home of Silk"

Suzhou Weiting Town Grass shoes Six thousand years ago textile Physical fragments; A large number of spinning wheels and bone needles four thousand years ago, as well as pottery with silk twist patterns and silkworm patterns, have been unearthed in Meiyan, Wujiang, which shows that Suzhou's ancient ancestors mastered the technology of sericulture and spinning very early. In ancient times, Suzhou belonged to Yangzhou, one of the nine states. During the Xia Yu period, there were colorful brocades and silks, such as silk, earth tribute, "weaving shells". During the Spring and Autumn Period, when Ji Zha, the son of the State of Wu, visited various countries in the Central Plains to observe the ceremony, he once gave the chimera produced in the State of Wu to the son of the State of Zheng. According to the Records of the Historian, in the first year of King Jing of Zhou (519 BC), Wu and Chu fought for mulberry fields on the border, and a large-scale "battle for mulberry" took place, indicating that the benefits of sericulture played an important role in the economy at that time. Suzhou is the capital of the State of Wu. During the Three Kingdoms and the Eastern Wu Dynasty, silk and silk were abundant and clothing recovered. Suzhou silk has developed into an important material for the "military foot country". In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Japanese envoys asked Wu Zhizhi and women sewing and weaving workers to return. The Japanese Book also recorded the corresponding historical facts.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, Suzhou belonged to the eastern part of Jiangnan, with the largest number of silk tributes. The local tributes included silk Ge, silk cotton, eight silk and Fei silk. Han Yu once said, "The world is endowed, and the south of the Yangtze River is in the thousands. From today's perspective, the east and west of Zhejiang Province are in the 19th place in the south of the Yangtze River, and the five prefectures of Su, Song, Chang, Jia, and Hu are in the 19th place in the two provinces." At that time, there was a saying that "there are thousands of mu of mulberry trees in Sichuan, and thousands of silkworms in Wu". Wu silkworm refers to Huzhou silk (also known as Wuxing), which was used to describe the development of the silk textile industry in the Yangtze River basin at that time.

During the Song Dynasty, according to the Chronicle of the History of the Song Dynasty, "In the first year of Chongning (1102), Huizong appointed officials Tong Guan to set up a bureau in Suzhou and Hangzhou in the afternoon and spring." Suzhou, Hangzhou and Chengdu were the three famous brocade courts in China at that time. Suzhou's Song brocade is the most famous, also known as Suzhou brocade. The famous Kesi artists Shen Zifan and Wu Zirun also came from Suzhou. According to Wu Men Biao Yin, at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty (1078), Xiangfu Temple Lane in the city was the organic holy temple (also known as Xuanyuan Palace), as well as Xinluo Lane, Sunzhisha Lane (between today's and ancient city lanes and Jiayu Lane) and other places producing gauze. Huqiu Tower and Ruiguang Tower unearthed embroidery, silk woven warp bundles and silk woven ethereal heads from the Northern Song Dynasty of the Five Dynasties respectively.

In addition to the Suzhou Silk Museum invested by the government, which is located on the Shantang Street of Suzhou's millennium old street, there is also a 4000 square meter silk culture and art museum invested and built by the private enterprise Suzhou Ruifuxiang Silk Co., Ltd.