The local silk culture reacted against the local textile industry, making it carry out a series of innovations and reforms on the original basis, thereby improving labor production efficiency, creating new fabric types, and further enriching the silk culture.
The contribution of Chinese silk to the world lies in the spread of Chinese silk technology with the spread of silk. Chinese silk technology was first introduced to Central Asia. There is a story in the "Story of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" about the princess Chuansi who introduced silkworm eggs to the kingdom of Qu Satan. The spread of silkworm eggs from Central Asia to Europe took place during the reign of Justinian. A Persian monk hid the silkworm eggs in a walking stick and brought them to Rome. Thus, the Chinese silkworm silk technology spread to Europe.
In addition to sericulture technology, silk reeling and silk jacquard technology have also had a significant impact on Western textile technology. In his "History of Science and Technology in China", Needham listed the scientific and technological achievements that China has contributed to the world starting with 26 English letters, including: F-jacquard and horizontal loom; G-silk reeling machine, spinning machine Silk machine and silk machine. Because Europe has absorbed these technologies, its own textile technology has been greatly improved, which has led to many mechanical innovations. It is on this basis that the textile industrial revolution in modern Europe is possible. The principle of silk jacquard, that is, the process of storing information and transforming it into a jacquard program through the coordination of heddles and tread rods, or by compiling patterns, contains profound mathematical ideas. After being introduced to Europe, it not only had a great influence on the development of European silk weaving technology, but also had a great influence on the development of modern telegraph communication technology and even computer principles.
The influence of foreign silk culture on the development and innovation of the local textile industry is even greater. After Chinese silk entered European countries, the monarchs of various countries established and developed their own silk weaving industries. In this process, the spread of silk culture is not a simple copy, but continuous improvement and continuous fullness. For example, Western European silk weavers combined their rich imagination and feelings of color into the creativity of the ancestors of the Chinese nation, making textile technology increasingly sophisticated and scientific, and becoming the forerunner of modern industry. It is precisely because of this extremely creative combination that greatly enriched and promoted the development of textile technology. After the formation of foreign silk culture, it was fed back to China, which played an important role in promoting the development and progress of China's textile industry, especially the modern machine textile technology, which had a huge impact on the development of China's textile industry.
