中国是世界蚕丝业最早发源地,可追溯到远古的新石器时代。当时在黄河流域与长江流域均已出现原始的蚕丝事业。当奴隶社会末期的西周,已有了丝绸业商品经济的记载。战国时丝绸生产与贸易发达,齐纨、鲁缟以及楚国和江南吴越的罗、绢等名满列国。西汉武帝时张骞开辟丝绸之路,对沟通与西域以及西方各国的经济文化交流,起着重要的作用。隋唐时期,中国蚕丝与丝绸的生产技术,亦向中近东、西欧与日本、朝鲜等地传播。此后,历经 China is the earliest birthplace of the silk industry in the world, dating back to ancient Neolithic times. At that time, the primitive silk industry had emerged in both the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin. As the slave society in the Western Zhou Dynasty, has been recorded in the silk industry commodity economy. During the Warring States period, the production and trade of silk was well-developed. The cities of Qi and Lu and Lu and Silk of the Chu Kingdom and Wujiang and Jiangnan in the Warring States Period were full of powers. The establishment of the Silk Road by Zhang Qian during the Western Han Dynasty was playing an important role in the economic and cultural exchanges between China and the Western Regions and other Western countries. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, silk and silk production techniques in China also spread to the Near and Middle East, Western Europe, Japan and North Korea. Since then, after