CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Who invented the silkworm breeding and silk reeling technology?

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. Who is the founder of silk?

Leizu

The founder of silk is Leizu, also known as the ancestor of silk, a figure in ancient China. She was the daughter of Xiling clan and the first wife of Emperor Huangdi. She invented sericulture and is known in history as Leizu the founder of silkworm breeding.

The silkworm breeding and silk reeling technology represented by Leizu also originated from the ancestors' need for food and clothing. In the primitive daily gathering activities, the labor group dominated by women accidentally discovered the secret of wild silkworms. Facing the fat white larvae crawling on the branches and spinning silk cocoons, they were amazed at first, and then through day-to-day observation and long-term trial and error experience, they gradually domesticated wild silkworms into domestic silkworms, opening a new journey of artificial mulberry planting and silkworm breeding.

4. 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.

5. What did Leizu invent that makes her well known to us?

Because she invented the methods of planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms, and the techniques of reeling silk and weaving silk, she brought lasting benefits and far-reaching impacts to the human beings of China and the whole world. Even today, these technologies are still being used and improved by humans.

Leizu was the first wife of Emperor Huangdi in ancient China and was known as the Goddess of Silkworms. She pioneered the methods of growing mulberry trees and raising silkworms, and the techniques of spinning and weaving silk, which are precious treasures of the world's silk culture and an important part of Chinese civilization.

6. Who invented sericulture and silk production?

Huangdi had four concubines: the principal wife was a daughter of Xiling, named Nut. The Records of the Grand Historian states: "Huangdi married the daughter of Xiling, Luozu, the principal wife of Huangdi". Luozu invented the cultivation of mulberry trees, raising silkworms, spinning silk, weaving silk into silk, and sewing silk into clothes. Later generations called her "the first silkworm lady". There is a site of Luozu raising silkworms in Huangling County.