CATDOLL : CATDOLL: The development history of silkworm breeding and silk reeling technology (a brief description of the development history of silkworm breeding and silk reeling technology)

1. What information is there about the history of silkworm rearing and silk reeling in my country?

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 the most precious 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".

2. 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.

3. What is the development history of Chinese mulberry silk technology?

China is the birthplace of the world's sericulture industry. The use of silk, the domestication of wild silkworms, and the cultivation of mulberry trees and silkworms all originated and spread in China.

According to legend, Fuxi invented musical instruments, using mulberry leaves to make the harp and silk as strings. In ancient times more than 5,000 years ago, when Huangdi defeated Chiyou, someone offered silk to him. Huangdi ordered them to be woven into silk and made into clothes and hats, which were both comfortable and luxurious to wear. Later, Huangdi Xuanyuan's empress Xiling, Leizu, moved wild silkworms indoors to raise them, and people followed suit, and sericulture gradually became popular. From then on, Leizu was revered as the ancestor of sericulture.

4. 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!

5. When did silk reeling technology appear?

The silk reeling technology at that time was to separate the silk from the cocoon to form a bundle of long filaments. Many pictographic characters related to silk reeling can be seen in the unearthed oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty, and there are also many records about silk reeling in the pre-Qin literature, which shows that my country's silk reeling technology was relatively mature in the Shang Dynasty.

6. When did the technology of sericulture and silk reeling begin?

Sericulture and silk reeling were invented by Leizu (the wife of Emperor Huangdi). my country is the first country in the world to invent silk (sericulture, reeling and weaving silk). More than 5,000 years ago, the hardworking and intelligent Leizu invented silk (sericulture, reeling and weaving silk technology). She, together with Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang, opened up the vast world and bid farewell to the wilderness. She is an outstanding representative of our female ancestors and is revered as the "First Silkworm" by later generations.

7. 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".