From China National Silk Museum at Hangzhou, Zhejiang

During the Ming and Qing the rural production of silk tabbies almost disappeared except in the villages of the lower Yangzi. The balance of products shifted markedly from plain to fancy silks, which were mostly woven in workshops concentrated in the cities and suburbs of the main economic centers in the south. (Bray, p226)

The varieties and names of silk patterns in the Ming and Qing dynasties reached hundreds of species, much more than the Song and Yuan dynasties.
Auspicious patterns on the silk textiles originated in the Qin and Han dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and became required in the Ming and Qing dynasties that “a pattern must be intended, the intention must be auspicious”, which constituted a significant feature of the pattern decoration of this period. (Zhao, p194)

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