Nanjing Yunjin is rich in cultural and scientific connotations, which can provide empirical materials for China's craft history, scientific and technological history and cultural history. During the period from Kangxi to Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, the production scale of Nanjing brocade was huge, with more than 30,000 wooden looms, and more than 200,000 people engaged in it, with an annual output of millions of brocade, with an output value of more than 30 million taels of silver. At the end of Guangxu, the brocade industry began to decline.1When Nanjing was liberated in 949, only four brocade looms could be produced in the city. 1954, in order to save Nanjing Yunjin, which is on the verge of extinction, the Yunjin Research Working Group was established. 1957, the Jiangsu provincial government approved the establishment of "Nanjing Yunjin Research Institute", which is the only professional organization in China that integrates research, production, exhibition and sales. 1979 has grown to 15 processing stations, 97 looms, and more than 300 external processing personnel. It has also developed traditional varieties of makeup flowers, makeup yarn and makeup silk that have been lost for many years. In 2004, with the support of Nanjing Municipal Government, Nanjing Yunjin Museum was established.

On May 20th, 2006, Nanjing Yunjin Wood Machine Makeup Hand-weaving Technology was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. The representative inheritors of the national intangible cultural heritage project Nanjing Yunjin Wood Machine Makeup Hand-weaving Skills are Zhu Feng and Zhou Shuangxi of Nanjing Yunjin Research Institute and Jinwen of Jiangsu Hantang Brocade Technology. The provincial inheritor is Wu Xier from Zhu Feng, an old artist of Yunjin.

With the development of modern science and technology, new varieties of silk are constantly emerging, the upgrading of clothing fabrics is accelerated, the market demand for Yunjin is reduced, and the young people are reluctant to engage in this work because of the long learning period and high labor intensity of Yunjin, and the hand-woven skill of makeup flowers is on the verge of extinction.