What are the processing methods and principles of ancient fur?

Fur is animal skin with animal hair, which was called "Qiu" in ancient times? Animal skins made by removing animal hair are commonly known as "cooked skins"? They are handled in different ways, but the principle is the same?

In ancient China, tanning became a professional type of work probably from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties? At that time, the antiseptic treatment of leather products was very successful?

Anyang, Henan Province, Shang Dynasty's Shouge Ding is engraved with the word "Ge"? Its glyph is very similar to that of a warrior in armor, indicating that animal skin is often used to protect the body? Oracle Bone Inscriptions? There is the word "Qiu" in the bronze inscription, which means clothes made of animal skins?

In a Shang Dynasty tomb in Houjiazhuang, Anyang, Henan Province, two traces of leather were found, which were the textures left in the soil after leather rotted. Leather armor was also found in Changsha, Hunan Province in the late Spring and Autumn Period? Leather armor was also found in Jiangling, Hubei Province during the Warring States Period?

There used to be gold in the Zhou Dynasty? Jade? Skin? Work? History and other five kinds of officials, specializing in the production, distribution and use of royal related materials? The Book of Rites Monthly Order also records: "Ji Chun ordered a job in March? Ask Baigong to review the quality of the five libraries of equipment? " Does the fifth floor include skin? Leather? Tendons or something?

At that time, the output of leather was relative to that of hemp. It's really pitiful for silk fabrics, isn't it? A few fur products are mostly used as decorations and occupied by dignitaries? General leather products have been used in the military, such as armor? With regard to the military use of leather products, there is a saying in the Songs of the South that "Brother Wu likes to wear rhinoceros armour, but his car is wrong and his soldiers are short", which describes the battle scene of soldiers fighting in armour at that time? It can be seen that leather armor was widely used as defense equipment at that time?

"The Warring States Policy Qin Ce I" says: "Are the soldiers strong and the princes afraid?" Explain that the number of leather armor also reflects military strength?

Although the tanning process in China can be traced back to the written Shang Dynasty, mirabilite was still used in the production process until the Qing Dynasty. Smoking? Alum? Bark and other ancestral indigenous methods, the production scale has also stayed in the stage of manual workshops for a long time, and modern complete sets of machinery and equipment such as drums have never been used? So the large tanneries in Qing Dynasty were generally called "tanneries"?