Diplomacy and Trade in the Chinese World, 589-1276

liao 615

Textiles

Silks

908: brocade.
942: pongee.
1005: brocade.

Garments

908: caps embroidered with golden flowers.
975: garments.
976: garments.
977: garments.
978: garments.
1005: 12 garments.

Other

940: embroidered bow cases.

Jewels

1022: pearls.

The information for Sung is much poorer than for T’ang and the
Five Dynasties. Horses, furs, and manufactured objects were the chief
exports. Amber and pearls were not regional objects but passed along
by the Khitan.
The Chinese paid for these goods with gold, silk, brocade, gold,
silver and porcelain vessels, wine vessels, drinking and eating vessels
of tortoise shell adorned with gold, teapots and cups of porcelain,
elephant tusks, rhinoceros horns, corals, carnelian cups, necklaces,
jade and ivory flutes, musical instruments of tortoise shell adorned
with gold, inkstones, plain cloth, garments, black gauze caps, golden
belts, belts of rhinoceros hide, belts adorned with rhinoceros horn,
embroidered coverlets, naphta, tea, cherries, aromatics, drugs, a tame
elephant, fine horses, horse trappings, silver horse trappings, horse
trappings of carnelian adorned with gold, jade horse whips, a white
single-horned deer, a white tortoise, armour, rhinoceros hide armour,
bows decorated with rhinoceros horn, arrows, and a portrait of Jen-