Silk, a kind of textile, woven with silk or synthetic fibers, man-made fibers, short filaments, etc.; general term for fabrics purely woven or interwoven with silk or rayon.
In ancient times, silk was a textile made of silk (mainly mulberry silk, but also a small amount of tussah silk and cassava silk). In modern times, due to the expansion of textile raw materials, all textiles woven with man-made or natural filament fibers in the warp can be called silk in a broad sense. The silk woven by pure mulberry silk is especially called "real silk".
Silk is a special product of China. The working people in ancient China invented and mass-produced silk products, which opened up the first large-scale trade exchange between the East and the West in the history of the world, known as the "Silk Road" in history. Since the Western Han Dynasty, Chinese silk has been shipped abroad in large numbers and has become a world-famous product. At that time, the road from China to the West was called the Silk Road by Europeans, and China was also called the "Silk Country."
