CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Who was the founder of sericulture and silk reeling? (Who was the founder of sericulture and silk reeling?)

1. Chinese civilization has a long history. It is said that Huangdi’s wife Leizu invented sericulture and silk reeling. How did they make clothes?

Huangdi’s first wife, Leizu, invented sericulture and silk reeling. His fourth wife, Momu, saw Leizu reeling silk and wanted to weave it, so she invented the loom. With the loom, she and Leizu weaved the reeled silk into silk, and then made the silk into clothes.

2. Founder of sericulture and silk reeling?

Leizu

The founder of sericulture and silk reeling was Leizu, a figure in ancient China. She was the wife of Emperor Huangdi. She invented sericulture and was known in history as Leizu the First Silkworm.

Leizu was a great inventor, scientist, and politician. Together with Huangdi, she quelled wars and stabilized the people. She not only promoted the development of human civilization, but also promoted the progress of the Chinese nation.

3. How to write the abbreviation of the legendary story of Leizu?

Leizu was the empress of Emperor Huang. She was virtuous and kind, and she was the founder of teaching people to raise silkworms and reel silk.

Legend has it that when Huangdi celebrated his victory over Chiyou, a beautiful girl wearing horse skin came to offer silk. This was the legendary silkworm god. It turns out that in ancient times, a father and daughter raised a horse. Because the father had been away on an expedition for several months, the daughter missed her father very much. While feeding the horse, she joked, "Horse, horse, if you can find your father, I will marry you." Unexpectedly, the horse heard the girl's words, broke free from the reins and ran away. A few days later, it carried the girl's father back. The father and daughter were very happy to meet, but the daughter did not mention anything about marrying the horse. From then on, the horse lost its appetite and kept wailing. The father was puzzled, so the daughter told him what happened. After knowing the truth, the father felt that it would be a disgrace to the family if the horse became his son-in-law, so he had to kill the horse with great pain and peel off the horse skin to dry in the yard. Unexpectedly, the girl was still not satisfied, and stepped on the horse skin and said, "You are a beast, and you still want to marry me, you deserve to be killed!" Unexpectedly, the horse skin suddenly jumped up from the ground, wrapped the girl up and ran away. From then on, the girl wore horse skin, lived in the branches, shook her head and spit out silk, day and night, as if telling her unfortunate experience. Later, people called the creature that spit silk "silkworm", the tree "mulberry", and the girl wearing horse skin became the silkworm god. Today, the Yellow Emperor's celebration has the silkworm god offering treasures, which adds to the festive atmosphere.

Leizu listened to Huangdi's story about the silkworm god, and then looked at the treasures offered by the silkworm god - two twists of silk that were yellow like gold and white like silver. She couldn't calm down for a long time. She secretly made up her mind to make the silk spun by the unfortunate girl become useful to the people of the world. So she got up early and went to bed late to raise silkworms. With her careful care, the silkworms multiplied and the number of silkworms increased. She used her accumulated experience in raising silkworms to teach more women to raise silkworms. After they mastered the silkworm raising technology, Leizu, with her wisdom and extraordinary talents, painstakingly studied silk weaving technology. She and her sisters repeatedly discussed and exchanged skills many times. After countless failures and explorations, she finally used silk to weave a kind of light and soft silk that was as smooth as flowing clouds and water.

In order to commemorate the Snail Ancestor, later generations built temples and offered sacrifices to Leizu wherever she went. Some legends simply called Leizu the Goddess of Silkworms. Now, there are many places in my country named after Leizu, such as Leizu Mountain, Leizu Ping, Leizu Cave, Leizu Peak, etc.

There is another mythological story about Leizu raising silkworms.

After defeating Chiyou, Huangdi was sitting on the throne in the center of the hall, listening to the music and dancing with great confidence. The chapter after chapter of the "Tonggu Music" - "Thunder Shocks", "Tigers Are Horrified", "Spiritual Kui Roars", "Eagles and Owls Fight"... were so brave and majestic, and the victorious warriors sang triumphant songs and performed various fighting dances in the hall in response to the drums, symbolizing the victory of killing the enemy. Even Huangdi was so excited that he stepped down from the throne and sang and danced with the warriors...

At this time, the silkworm god, a beautiful girl, came down from the sky with two strands of silk in her hands, one yellow like gold and the other white like silver, and came to offer them to Huangdi. This silkworm fairy lived in the wilderness in the north, beside three mulberry trees that were a hundred feet high and grew side by side. She half-knelt on another big tree and spun silk day and night. People called that place the Silk Vomiting Wilderness. The girl was wearing a horse skin. If she pulled the edges of the horse skin together a little and wrapped her body, she would immediately turn into a silkworm with a horse head. Huangdi saw these beautiful and rare things and praised them repeatedly: "Great, now my people have one more treasure!" Seeing Huangdi's concern for the people of the world, the silkworm god was moved to pull the horse skin together and turned into a silkworm, spitting out two endless long silk threads from its mouth, one golden and the other silver. Huangdi was very moved and immediately ordered people to send the silkworm to the legitimate Leizu.

Leizu personally put the silkworms on the mulberry tree, holding a bamboo pole in her hand, and carefully watched over them every day. The silkworms grew more and more, and the silk they spit out was as beautiful as the silk offered by the silkworm god. She used wooden sticks as a support, silk as a weft, and bone needles as shuttles to weave the warp and weft together, and wove a light and soft silk that was as smooth as flowing water. It was much better than the ramie cloth in the past. One day, Leizu and Huangdi were together and joked, "The clothes and shoes you made are not strong and rough. You are not as good as me who raises silkworms to make silk. The silk I weave is strong and beautiful." Huangdi himself also admired Leizu's use of silk to weave silk.

Leizu not only raised silkworms herself, but also enthusiastically taught the technology to the common people. She often raised silkworms and spun silk with her sisters beside the Yixian Spring, boiling cocoons and reeling out silk. The silk threads became longer and longer, floating down the mountain, and the spring water flowed down along the silk threads, forming a waterfall... In summer, Huangdi still wore the tiger skin waistband. After seeing this, the Queen Mother of Heaven thought to herself: Xuanyuan was born on the day of Wusi, when the yellow star was auspicious, and the Loess Plateau where we live is also yellow. How great it would be if we could weave a yellow dress for Huangdi! So she specially picked out many yellow silk cocoons and spun them into yellow silk. She wove carefully, forgot to eat, forgot to rest, stayed in the house or under the shade of trees during the day, and sat by the fire at night... She was so tired that she felt dizzy and wanted to stand up to take a breath. As soon as she stood up, she fainted on the ground. Xuanyuan helped her up and asked her to take a good rest. He brought her a pottery bowl of black wine and asked her to drink: "Take a good rest. You are exhausted. How can you teach people to raise silkworms and weave silk in the future?" Leizu was so moved that her eyes flushed. But as soon as Huangdi left, she turned over and wove yellow silk again. After weaving it, it was shining with gold. Leizu was very happy and thought to herself, I will weave more yellow silk in the future so that people can wear such good clothes. She quickly found the bone needle and sewed yellow clothes for Huangdi...

On this day, the weather was fine, and the tribesmen gathered in front of the central palace to discuss important matters. The Queen Mother of Heaven had sewed a yellow robe for Huangdi to try on. Huangdi put on the world's first yellow robe, which shone brightly in the sun, looking very sacred and solemn. Guangchengzi waved the yak's tail and chanted: "The sky is yellow, the earth is yellow, the emperor is really the Yellow Emperor of the world!" The common people cheered in unison: "Huangdi!" "Huangdi!" Huangdi smiled modestly, and Leizu also smiled happily...

At present, Nancheng Village, two miles south of Huangling County, is said to be the Huangdi's main palace. There is still a mound two meters high and three meters square, which is known as the dressing room of the Queen Mother of Heaven.

Leizu was the empress of Emperor Huang. She was virtuous and kind, and she was the founder of teaching people to raise silkworms and reel silk.

Legend has it that when Huangdi celebrated his victory over Chiyou, a beautiful girl wearing horse skin came to offer silk. This was the legendary silkworm god. It turns out that in ancient times, a father and daughter raised a horse. Because the father had been away on an expedition for several months, the daughter missed her father very much. While feeding the horse, she joked, "Horse, horse, if you can find your father, I will marry you." Unexpectedly, the horse heard the girl's words, broke free from the reins and ran away. A few days later, it carried the girl's father back. The father and daughter were very happy to meet, but the daughter did not mention anything about marrying the horse. From then on, the horse lost its appetite and kept wailing. The father was puzzled, so the daughter told him what happened. After knowing the truth, the father felt that it would be a disgrace to the family if the horse became his son-in-law, so he had to kill the horse with great pain and peel off the horse skin to dry in the yard. Unexpectedly, the girl was still not satisfied, and stepped on the horse skin and said, "You are a beast, and you still want to marry me, you deserve to be killed!" Unexpectedly, the horse skin suddenly jumped up from the ground, wrapped the girl up and ran away. From then on, the girl wore horse skin, lived in the branches, shook her head and spit out silk, day and night, as if telling her unfortunate experience. Later, people called the creature that spit silk "silkworm", the tree "mulberry", and the girl wearing horse skin became the silkworm god. Today, the Yellow Emperor's celebration has the silkworm god offering treasures, which adds to the festive atmosphere.

Leizu listened to Huangdi's story about the silkworm god, and then looked at the treasures offered by the silkworm god - two twists of silk that were yellow like gold and white like silver. She couldn't calm down for a long time. She secretly made up her mind to make the silk spun by the unfortunate girl become useful to the people of the world. So she got up early and went to bed late to raise silkworms. With her careful care, the silkworms multiplied and the number of silkworms increased. She used her accumulated experience in raising silkworms to teach more women to raise silkworms. After they mastered the silkworm raising technology, Leizu, with her wisdom and extraordinary talents, painstakingly studied silk weaving technology. She and her sisters repeatedly discussed and exchanged skills many times. After countless failures and explorations, she finally used silk to weave a kind of light and soft silk that was as smooth as flowing clouds and water.

In order to commemorate the Snail Ancestor, later generations built temples and offered sacrifices to Leizu wherever she went. Some legends simply called Leizu the Goddess of Silkworms. Now, there are many places in my country named after Leizu, such as Leizu Mountain, Leizu Ping, Leizu Cave, Leizu Peak, etc.

There is another mythological story about Leizu raising silkworms.

After defeating Chiyou, Huangdi was sitting on the throne in the center of the hall, listening to the music and dancing with great confidence. The chapter after chapter of the "Tonggu Music" - "Thunder Shocks", "Tigers Are Horrified", "Spiritual Kui Roars", "Eagles and Owls Fight"... were so brave and majestic, and the victorious warriors sang triumphant songs and performed various fighting dances in the hall in response to the drums, symbolizing the victory of killing the enemy. Even Huangdi was so excited that he stepped down from the throne and sang and danced with the warriors...

At this time, the silkworm god, a beautiful girl, came down from the sky with two strands of silk in her hands, one yellow like gold and the other white like silver, and came to offer them to Huangdi. This silkworm fairy lived in the wilderness in the north, beside three mulberry trees that were a hundred feet high and grew side by side. She half-knelt on another big tree and spun silk day and night. People called that place the Silk Vomiting Wilderness. The girl was wearing a horse skin. If she pulled the edges of the horse skin together a little and wrapped her body, she would immediately turn into a silkworm with a horse head. Huangdi saw these beautiful and rare things and praised them repeatedly: "Great, now my people have one more treasure!" Seeing Huangdi's concern for the people of the world, the silkworm god was moved to pull the horse skin together and turned into a silkworm, spitting out two endless long silk threads from its mouth, one golden and the other silver. Huangdi was very moved and immediately ordered people to send the silkworm to the legitimate Leizu.

Leizu personally put the silkworms on the mulberry tree, holding a bamboo pole in her hand, and carefully watched over them every day. The silkworms grew more and more, and the silk they spit out was as beautiful as the silk offered by the silkworm god. She used wooden sticks as a support, silk as a weft, and bone needles as shuttles to weave the warp and weft together, and wove a light and soft silk that was as smooth as flowing water. It was much better than the ramie cloth in the past. One day, Leizu and Huangdi were together and joked, "The clothes and shoes you made are not strong and rough. You are not as good as me who raises silkworms to make silk. The silk I weave is strong and beautiful." Huangdi himself also admired Leizu's use of silk to weave silk.

Leizu not only raised silkworms herself, but also enthusiastically taught the technology to the common people. She often raised silkworms and spun silk with her sisters beside the Yixian Spring, boiling cocoons and reeling out silk. The silk threads became longer and longer, floating down the mountain, and the spring water flowed down along the silk threads, forming a waterfall... In summer, Huangdi still wore the tiger skin waistband. After seeing this, the Queen Mother of Heaven thought to herself: Xuanyuan was born on the day of Wusi, when the yellow star was auspicious, and the Loess Plateau where we live is also yellow. How great it would be if we could weave a yellow dress for Huangdi! So she specially picked out many yellow silk cocoons and spun them into yellow silk. She wove carefully, forgot to eat, forgot to rest, stayed in the house or under the shade of trees during the day, and sat by the fire at night... She was so tired that she felt dizzy and wanted to stand up to take a breath. As soon as she stood up, she fainted on the ground. Xuanyuan helped her up and asked her to take a good rest. He brought her a pottery bowl of black wine and asked her to drink: "Take a good rest. You are exhausted. How can you teach people to raise silkworms and weave silk in the future?" Leizu was so moved that her eyes flushed. But as soon as Huangdi left, she turned over and wove yellow silk again. After weaving it, it was shining with gold. Leizu was very happy and thought to herself, I will weave more yellow silk in the future so that people can wear such good clothes. She quickly found the bone needle and sewed yellow clothes for Huangdi...

On this day, the weather was fine, and the tribesmen gathered in front of the central palace to discuss important matters. The Queen Mother of Heaven had sewed a yellow robe for Huangdi to try on. Huangdi put on the world's first yellow robe, which shone brightly in the sun, looking very sacred and solemn. Guangchengzi waved the yak's tail and chanted: "The sky is yellow, the earth is yellow, the emperor is really the Yellow Emperor of the world!" The common people cheered in unison: "Huangdi!" "Huangdi!" Huangdi smiled modestly, and Leizu also smiled happily...

At present, Nancheng Village, two miles south of Huangling County, is said to be the Huangdi's main palace. There is still a mound two meters high and three meters square, which is known as the dressing room of the Queen Mother of Heaven.

4. Who is the founder of silk?

Leizu, the silkworm goddess and founder of silk, is a figure in mythology and legend.

"Records of the Grand Historian: The Basic Annals of the Five Emperors" records: Huangdi lived in Xuanyuan Hill and married the daughter of Xiling, who was called Leizu, and was Huangdi's principal wife.

In other words, when all Chinese people at home and abroad call Huangdi their ancestor, they should also understand that all Chinese people are descendants of Leizu, and Leizu is the great mother of the Chinese people.

However, one thing is certain: Leizu invented and spread the culture of sericulture and silk reeling, and was revered as the "Silkworm Ancestor" by later generations and the "Silkworm Goddess" by the people.

Not only did she leave behind material civilization for future generations to escape the cold and escape the heat, but her spirit of "creation, invention, dedication, and taking the world as one's own responsibility" will shine for generations to come.

Therefore, promoting Leizu culture should be the unshirkable responsibility of us and China today.

This is also the reason why many places across the country are vying to claim that Leizu is their hometown. It is understandable and reasonable that various places are vying for the hometown of Leizu.

5. The ancestor of China’s silk industry?

Leizu was the wife of Emperor Huangdi, and she often participated in the labor herself. It is said that people did not know the use of silkworms at first, and there were only wild silkworms at that time. Leizu was the first person to understand silkworms. She understood the habits and uses of silkworms. She taught women to raise silkworms, reel silk, and weave silk. From then on, there were silk and silk. Luozu has since become the god of silkworms. Liu Yuan's "Tongjian Waiji" says: "Leizu, the daughter of Xiling, was the first emperor of Huangdi. She began to teach people to raise silkworms and process silk cocoons for clothes. Later centuries were the first to raise silkworms." In "Han Riyi", it is also recorded: "The silkworm god must be sacrificed with a medium-sized sheep and a pig. The silkworm god is Lady Fan Yu and Princess Yu." Scholars have verified that Lady Fan Yu is Leizu, and Princess Yu is Princess Yu, the daughter of Xiling, the first silkworm. Leizu is also called "the first silkworm" or "the mother of silkworms." Therefore, silkworm farmers in the past worshipped Leizu as their ancestor.

There is also a beautiful love legend about Leizu's silkworm breeding: When Huangdi chose his wife, he had a principle. He said: "Don't just look at the appearance, you also have to look at whether she has the ability." Due to the strict selection, he was still unmarried at an old age.

One day, Huangdi went hunting and came to the West Mountain. He looked up and saw a woman under a mulberry tree on the hillside. She was holding the tree with her hands and kneeling on one leg. She was spinning silk from her mouth. A cocoon as big as a clay pot had already appeared on the ground. Huangdi was hiding behind a big rock and was stunned. The silk that the woman spit out was golden yellow and silvery white, all shining brightly. Huangdi was fascinated by it and thought to himself that he could never dream of meeting a woman who could spin silk today! How great it would be if he could get this silk and weave it into cloth to make clothes! Thinking of this, he wanted to go up and find out, but then he thought, I don’t know whose family this woman is, it would be too rude to ask rashly, so he should wait until she finishes spinning silk and takes a break before asking.

The woman spit out three cocoons in a row and stood up to leave. Huangdi was anxious when he saw this, so he hurried out, held the woman and bowed, saying: "Sister, please stay." The woman looked at him and said: "Brother, what can I do for you?" Huangdi said: "I see that you can make silk, can you teach me?" The woman said: "My parents have told me that if anyone wants to learn how to make silk, there is a condition." Huangdi asked hurriedly: "What condition?" The woman said: "It can only be taught by a husband." Huangdi's heart was pounding when he heard this, and he didn't know whether what the woman said was true or false. He looked at the woman carefully, she was very ugly, with a dark face, thick lips, and a short stature. But then he thought again, she is a good worker, and you can't just judge a person by their appearance. With such a good helper, he will definitely accomplish great things.

When Huangdi thought of this, he plucked up his courage and said, "I am willing to be your husband, but I don't know where you live, where you come from, and where you are going?" The woman said, "I was originally a maid of the Queen Mother, named Leizu. Because I violated the rules of heaven, I was sent down to the mortal world." Huangdi asked again, "What rules of heaven did you violate?" Leizu said, "Once, I went to the Queen Mother's garden to see flowers. There was a five-colored herb in the garden, which was full of fruits. The fruits looked beautiful and fragrant, so I picked a few and put them in my mouth. I felt very sweet and swallowed them in a hurry. But soon I felt something in my heart turning out. I just wanted to spit it out, so I squatted on the ground. After a while, I spit it out, and it turned out to be silk.

Later, a few colorful moths flew in from somewhere, flying around the grass. I thought if I fed the vanilla seeds to the colorful moths, wouldn’t they be able to spin silk? As a result, the colorful moths really spun silk, and the colorful moths laid eggs, which slowly turned into silkworms. I fed the silkworms with the vanilla seeds again, and the silkworms also spun silk. This five-color vanilla turned out to be a fairy grass. I wanted to pick some more fruits, but I just picked a handful. I don’t know who told the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother got angry and immediately sent me to the mortal world. I thought that no matter what, I had to take the spice seeds with me. The Queen Mother sent heavenly soldiers to throw me into a remote mountain area, and I was almost eaten by wolves. Fortunately, I was saved by Xiling who was picking dry firewood. I recognized her as my mother, and the two of us depended on each other and lived a hard life until today..."

After hearing this, Huangdi reached out and grabbed Leizu's shoulders, not knowing what to say. Leizu said again: "I have raised some silkworms on this hillside and they are spinning silk. Those silkworms eat mulberry leaves and grow well. Let's go and have a look first!" Huangdi walked in the direction she pointed and saw that the silkworms had already formed cocoons. Huangdi said happily: "I will go back now and send some people to bring the cocoons back." Leizu smiled and nodded. Huangdi first sent someone back home to tell Shaodian and Fubao about the choice of Leizu as his wife. As soon as the old couple spread the news, men and women, young and old, all came. When Huangdi and Leizu came back, everyone gathered around to watch. Some whispered: "There are so many beautiful ones, but you chose this rough one." Others said: "Don't worry, Huangdi is sure to do things."

Leizu was very cheerful. As soon as she arrived, she led a few girls to reel in silk. They reeled and coiled the silk in an orderly manner, and everyone followed suit. Shaodian, Fubao, Youchao, Houji and some older people were very happy to see the coils of thin and soft silk.

Since Leizu came, people here have learned to raise silkworms, reel silk, spin fabrics, and weave brocade, and more and more people wear clothes. Everyone says: "Huangdi is still a good judge of appearance. It is not enough to judge people by appearance." People admire Leizu. Leizu died before Huangdi. Because she was the first person in China to raise silkworms and reel silk, later generations respected her as the first silkworm and worshipped her as a god. In the past, farmers' loom rooms worshipped Leizu as the ancestor god.

6. Who invented silk reeling?

Leizu was the wife of Huangdi. It was she who invented sericulture and silk reeling, which led to the later agricultural structure of men farming and women weaving.