CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How many years of history does silkworm breeding have?

1. When did Chinese people start raising silkworms?

According to legend, the Chinese began to raise silkworms 4,600 years ago. Leizu, the wife of Huangdi, invented silk fabrics. Leizu is an outstanding representative of our female ancestors. Under Leizu's advocacy, the history of mulberry planting and silkworm raising began. In order to commemorate Leizu's achievements, later generations honored her as "the goddess of the silkworm". She was revered as the "first silkworm" by later generations. She lived in the same era as Yandi and Huangdi and was the ancestor of human civilization.

The history of sericulture, which has written records, dates back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and has a history of more than 3,000 years.

The oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin Dynasty include not only words such as silkworm, mulberry, silk, and silk, but also some complete oracle inscriptions related to silk production.

Archaeologists have discovered lifelike jade silkworms in Yin tombs more than once. For example, jade silkworms from the Shang Dynasty were unearthed in the Anyang Tomb in Henan and the Subutun Tomb in Shandong.

There are many poems in the Book of Songs that mention sericulture. For example, in the Book of Songs, Binfeng, July, it says: "In spring, the sun is shining, and the orioles are singing. Women hold baskets and walk along the path, picking tender mulberry leaves for the silkworms." This means: In spring, the sun is shining, and the orioles are singing. Women hold baskets and walk along the path, picking tender mulberry leaves for the silkworms. This depicts the scene of women picking mulberry leaves and raising silkworms at that time.

Mulberry trees were already planted on a large scale in the Zhou Dynasty. In the Book of Songs, Wei Feng, Ten Mu, there is a line that goes, "Ten Mu, the mulberry pickers are leisurely." This means: In the ten-mu mulberry garden among the green trees, the mulberry pickers are so leisurely.

2. How many years has the sericulture culture been around?

It has a history of more than 4,000 years.

Chinese ancestors began to raise silkworms and plant mulberry trees in the late Neolithic period, which has a history of more than 4,000 years. Silkworm decorations from the Neolithic period were discovered at the Meiyan site, and silk fragments and other objects were unearthed at the Qianshanyang Neolithic site. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Chu fought a war over mulberry trees. Lady Helu used silkworms as burial objects. Sun Quan of the Three Kingdoms issued an edict "forbidding silkworm weaving and disturbing the people with labor service", which formed the "Maritime Silk Road".

3. In which year did mulberry planting and silkworm breeding begin in history?

Sericulture in history can be traced back to the first wife of Emperor Huangdi, who was honored as Canniang. She taught people how to raise silkworms, and it has been nearly 4,500 years since then.

4. What is the history of sericulture in China?

Sericulture has a history of more than 4,000 years in my country. According to historical records, silkworms existed in my country before the Xia Dynasty.

They originally grew on naturally growing mulberry trees and mainly ate mulberry leaves, so they are also called mulberry silkworms.

Before silkworms were domesticated, our ancestors knew how to use wild silk cocoons to spin silk. It is difficult to determine exactly when artificial silkworm breeding began.

However, as early as the Yin and Zhou dynasties, my country's sericulture had already developed greatly, which shows that the development of artificial silkworm breeding was long before the Yin and Zhou dynasties. By the Zhou Dynasty, mulberry planting and silkworm breeding had flourished in large areas of northern and southern my country. Silk had become the main material for clothing for the ruling class at that time.