In ancient times, many clans and tribes lived on the vast land of the motherland. At that time, a tribe named Huangdi defeated another tribe, Jiuli. To celebrate the victory, Huangdi, the leader of Huangdi clan, held a grand celebration.
When people were celebrating the victory in high spirits, they suddenly saw a beautiful girl with a horse skin on her body. She held two bundles of silk in her hand, one as yellow as gold and the other as white as silver, which were dedicated to the Yellow Emperor. This girl who offered silk is the legendary "silkworm god". When the Yellow Emperor saw such a rare thing, he was greatly praised and had it woven into silk.
Woven silk is light and soft, like clouds in the sky and running water in a stream. Raw hemp can hardly compare with it. The concubines of the Yellow Emperor, Qi Zu, personally raised silkworms and taught people how to raise silkworms.
This myth is only the subjective imagination of ancient people in the case of low productivity. In fact, from the discovery of wild silkworm to its domestication and reproduction, it is the result of long-term practice of the working people in ancient China. Nature is not given by the "silkworm god" and cannot be counted as a person's credit. Since sericulture began, more and more silkworm eggs have been cultivated and spread to the fertile land where our ancestors lived. Mulberry picking, sericulture and silk weaving have become important productive activities of working women in ancient China.
Bombyx mori (scientific name: bombyx mori) is an insect of Lepidoptera, which is the main raw material source of silk and occupies an important position in human economic life and cultural history. Originated in China, South China and Taiwan Province Province, commonly known as silkworm baby or silkworm girl.
The English name of silkworm is "silkworm" (meaning "filariasis") because it weaves cocoons with silk. Cocoons are made of 300-900 meters long silk. Today, China's cocoon and silk production and export both account for more than 70% of the world's total, and it has become a cocoon and silk power that can dominate the world's cocoon and silk price trend.
Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia-Silkworm