CATDOLL : CATDOLL: When is silkworm rearing and silk reeling carried out?

1. When did my country start raising silkworms?

Yellow Emperor Period

It is a well-established fact that my country was the first country in the world to raise silkworms, reel silk and weave silk. However, there are many disputes about the origin of sericulture that are difficult to resolve for the time being. The most popular and influential argument is that "Leizu was the first to raise silkworms", which means that sericulture originated in the Yellow Emperor period.

The economic value of silkworms lies in silk, which is one of the main raw materials for textiles.

2. What was the earliest period of the origin of silk?

1. The origin of silk: It is said that as early as the Yellow Emperor period, the ancestors of the Yuanfei began to domesticate wild silkworms and weave silk into brocade for clothing. The ancient farming and weaving maps have detailed records of the entire process of ancient silkworm farmers raising silkworms, raising silkworms, reeling silk, and weaving silk.

Today, thousands of years have passed, and no matter how fast science advances, silk can only be produced slowly, inch by inch, from tiny silkworms. All the high-tech brilliance pales in comparison to a silkworm spinning silk. Real silk is the swan song of the silkworm's life, and it is the continuation of the silkworm's life.

Did you know that a silkworm lives only 28 days, and the silk it produces is 1,000 meters long. How many silkworms’ lives are needed to make a shirt, a cheongsam, a quilt cover, or a silk quilt? Therefore, many people praise silk or real silk as “a miracle created by silkworms.”

When a silkworm grows up, sheds its skin, goes to a cocoon, spins silk and spins a cocoon, it seems that heaven, earth, people and gods all give way to it. People take great care of silkworms, fearing that they will be disturbed by accident and affect their magical power of eating mulberry and spinning silkworms.

2. Warriors of the Mongolian Period: Before humans entered the Age of Exploration, a whirlwind from the Mongolian steppes swept across the Old World. The Mongol Empire astonishingly occupied two-thirds of the world known to humans at the time, and it was only because of internal competition for the Khanate and the cold and poverty in Europe that it was saved from collapse.

The Mongol Empire was able to occupy two-thirds of the world known to mankind at that time, all thanks to the "miracle created by silkworms" of China over thousands of years. Because every Mongol soldier had a piece of silk underwear, why? Because if he was shot by an arrow, he would have to use a knife to cut the wound open, which would cause greater damage. But if he wore silk underwear, when the arrow shot into the body, it would wrap the silk thread around the arrowhead and shoot into the body together. Just pull the silk thread gently to take out the arrow, reducing the damage.

3. The First Silk War: As we all know, China's silk industry has a long history. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the silk industry of Wu and Chu was very developed and became a pillar industry supported by both countries. At that time, Zhongli on the border of Chu and Beiliang on the border of Wu were two neighboring cities, but the people of the two places were not friendly. The cause of the conflict was the silkworms, the raw materials for making precious silk.

3. When did sericulture and silk reeling technology first appear?

The earliest record of Cancong's silkworm breeding appeared in the "Book of Kings of Shu" written by Yang Xiong in the Western Han Dynasty. The book mentioned:

"The founder of Shu was named Cancong, who taught the people how to raise silkworms."

The earliest record about "Leizu was the first to breed silkworms" appeared in the Tang Dynasty history book "Book of Sui•Records of Rites". The book stated that the Northern Zhou Dynasty called Leizu "the first silkworm", which means the god of the first silkworm!

4. Approximately how many years ago did my country invent sericulture and silk reeling during the Han Dynasty?

The legendary Yellow Emperor era was about a thousand years earlier than Dayu period (this is the farthest estimate). Dayu established the Xia Dynasty around 2070 BC. We can calculate that the Yellow Emperor period was at most around 3200 BC (equivalent to the middle period of Longshan culture). If the Western Han Dynasty is calculated according to the era of Emperor Wu of Han (141 BC-87 BC), it would be more than three thousand years old.

5. When did weaving begin in ancient times?

In primitive society, Leizu reeled silk and raised silkworms, which pioneered the textile industry. But this is just a legend, without any definite basis. This is the history of cotton textile industry.

Documents and unearthed cotton textiles prove that the people of all ethnic groups in China's border areas planted and used cotton much earlier than those in the Central Plains. In ancient times, due to inconvenient transportation, the dominance of natural economy, and underdeveloped commodity production, the spread of cotton planting and cotton textile technology that had long been developed in border areas to the Central Plains took a long time. Until the Han Dynasty, cotton textiles in the Central Plains were still relatively rare and precious. In the Song Dynasty, exchanges between border areas and inland areas were frequent, and a large number of cotton textiles were imported into the Central Plains. Cotton and cotton cloth became popular in the inland areas, and cotton planting and cotton textile technology were gradually introduced.

In 1979, a piece of blue-gray cotton cloth dating back more than 3,200 years was discovered in a boat coffin in a rock tomb in Wuyi Mountain, Chong'an, Fujian.

6. Which country in the world was the first to raise silkworms, reel silk and weave silk?

China is the first country in the world to raise silkworms, reel silk and weave silk. Ancient China was the land of silk and the Silk Road. Stories are recorded in materials such as "Shu Tu Jing", "Soushen Ji", "Taichu Canma Ji", "Shen'er Wang" and "Chengping Guangwang". China is the first country to plant mulberry trees, raise silkworms and produce silk fabrics. Archaeological discoveries in various parts of China in recent years have shown that from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Warring States Period, the production technology of silk had developed to a very high level, and the ancient Silk Road is a clear proof of this.

7. Which country was the first in the world to raise silkworms and reel silk?

China is the first country in the world to raise silkworms and reel silk. As an important carrier of Chinese civilization, silk has played an important role in world history. The earliest silk in China was discovered in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. The origin of Chinese silk may be in the Yangshao culture period.

According to records, Huangdi's wife Leizu "began to teach people to raise silkworms and process silk cocoons for clothing, and the world was free from the problem of chapped silkworms. Later generations worshipped her as the first silkworm". Archaeological discoveries show that silk protein may have appeared in China during the Peiligang culture period. The pointed-bottom bottles and some pottery jars unearthed in the Yangshao culture site are decorated with thread patterns on the surface, and traces of cloth were found on the bottom of some objects, indicating that textile technology was relatively developed in the middle Neolithic period or even earlier. The Luo fabric unearthed from the Qingtai site in Xingyang, Henan (5300-5500 years ago) in the Yellow River Basin is the earliest silk fabric discovered in China so far. The silk pieces and ribbons unearthed from Qianshanyang, Huzhou, Zhejiang (4200 years ago) are the earliest and most complete silk fabrics unearthed in the Yangtze River Basin.

8. Which country in the world was the first to raise silkworms, reel silk and weave silk?

my country is the first country in the world to raise silkworms, reel silk and weave silk. The ancient Greeks and Romans called my country "Seres", which means "Silk Country". The Roman slave owners regarded the silk shipped from my country as a supreme treasure, but until the fifth century, they did not know that silk was spit out from the mouths of silkworms.

3000 BC - Legend has it that in 3000 BC, Leizu, the wife of Emperor Huang, invented the method of "raising silkworms and processing silk" and used silk as a raw material for textiles. This shows that the application of silk in my country has a very long history. It is recognized worldwide that my country was the first to invent raising silkworms and processing silk. Europe calls my country the "Silk Country".