CATDOLL : CATDOLL: The season for raising silkworms and reeling silk (What is the season for raising silkworms and reeling silk)

1. Which month is it best to raise silkworms?

1. Generally speaking, the season for raising silkworms is spring and summer every year (starting around April each year). Since the main food source for silkworms is mulberry leaves, the season for raising silkworms and the growth cycle of mulberry trees need to be roughly the same to ensure that there are enough mulberry leaves to feed the silkworms.

2. The season of sericulture is related to the region. In the sericulture areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, theoretically, sericulture can be carried out during the eight months from April when mulberry trees sprout and open leaves to November when mulberry leaves turn yellow and fall off, but generally only 3-5 times a year. The sericulture areas in the Pearl River Basin raise sericulture more frequently than those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, while some sericulture areas around the Yellow River or in the north raise sericulture less frequently than those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

2. What is the season for raising silkworms?

Sericulture is generally carried out in spring and summer. Sericulture is an important skill of the working people in ancient my country. The method of planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms was invented by Leizu, the wife of Huangdi. Sericulture can eventually produce an important silk product, namely: silk. Silk occupies an important position in human economic life and cultural history. The main commodity of the famous historical event of the Silk Road was silk.

3. When did sericulture and silk reeling begin?

Experts speculate based on archaeological discoveries that China began to raise silkworms, extract silk, and weave silk in the middle of the Neolithic period, five or six thousand years ago. By the Shang Dynasty, silk production had begun to take shape, with a high level of craftsmanship, and complex looms and weaving techniques.

4. When is the best time for silkworms to spin silk?

The best time to collect cocoons and draw silk is 6 to 7 days after the silkworms have formed cocoons.

It takes about four weeks for silkworms to spin silk and grow from young silkworms to mature silkworms. Of course, this is premised on the presence of enough mulberry leaves.

Silkworms spin silk in autumn. The mature silkworms first spin silk and stick it to the cocoon, then spin silk to connect the surrounding cocoon branches to form a cocoon net. The cocoon net does not have a cocoon shape, but is just some soft and messy cocoon silk layers that serve as a support for cocooning.

5. When will silk be produced?

There is no definitive conclusion on this, but it is speculated from archaeological excavations that silk reeling was already in production about 6,000 years ago, at the end of the Neolithic Age. Of course, at that time, it was only done by individuals, not by machines, and it was not large-scale. According to legend, sericulture and silk reeling are attributed to Huangdi's wife Leizu. Legend has it that Leizu taught people to raise silkworms, reel silk, and weave silk, which clothed the world. Of course, this is just a legend, because Chinese people like to attribute all the credit to the emperor.

6. When is the best time for silkworms to spin silk and why?

The best time to collect cocoons and draw silk is 6 to 7 days after the silkworms have formed cocoons.

Mulberry silk is generally better in the second half of the year, because the silkworms raised in the second half of the year have fewer diseases and pests, and the silk's cleanliness and purity are relatively high.

The climate in the first half of the year is usually humid and rainy, with many bacteria, and silkworms are prone to illness, which leads to a decline in the quality of silk. So generally speaking, the cocoons in the first half of the year (collectively called spring cocoons) are of slightly worse quality, while the cocoons in the second half of the year (collectively called autumn cocoons) produced by silkworms fed on mulberry leaves grown after the mulberry trees were cut down in summer are of much better quality.

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7. What is the best season for raising silkworms?

Silkworm breeding time: Usually, silkworm breeding takes place in spring and summer (starting around April each year). Because silkworms mainly feed on mulberry leaves, the breeding of silkworms needs to be closely related to the growth cycle of mulberry trees.