According to the embroidery unearthed from Chu tomb in 1958 in Changsha, Hunan, a conclusion can be drawn that the embroidery technology had developed to certain extent in some local places of Hunan early back to the Spring and Autumn period, existing in over two thousand five hundred years ago.
The book of Changsha County written in the Tongzhi period of late Qing Dynasty, said, "In the provincial capital, women prefer embroidering to spinning, and the powerful or rich families highly praise and give great honor to embroidery."