When ladies wear chi-pao, a close-fit woman's dress with high neck and slit skirt, they look gracefully slender and charming.When gentlemen wear Tang-zhuang, a Tang Dynasty-styled dress, they look elegant and handsome. Both Chi-pao and Tang-zhuang are made of silk, a fabric almost defined a civilization and brought fashion as well as culture, romantic vision and imagination from a remote and mystical  country China to the western world and today this ancient fabric still  enjoys a high degree of popularity.

The silk reaches the Western World along a long, time-honored merchant route and the Silk Road as known to the world today connects three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, runs through China,Afghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, and finally stops at Rome in Italy The Silk Road has witnessed bustling traders, carefree tourists, and devoted religious believers. During chaotic years of its history, somesections of the Silk Road were full of soldiers and refugees. Frequent  trade and cultural exchange made this great route a common historic legacy for many countries and nations and brought prosperity to the  people in the regions.