Is cocoon a tradition?

The people of China invented the industrialization of labor a long time ago. Lei Zu, the princess of the Yellow Emperor, began to teach people to raise silkworms. She found that silk was very soft and could be made into clothes after simple processing.

According to archaeological findings, about 4,700 years ago, China made silk thread, ribbon and simple silk fabrics from silk. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, silk fabrics such as Luo, Ling, Wan, Yarn, Crepe, Qi, Brocade and Embroidery were all made of silk. Silkworms include silkworm, tussah, castor silkworm, cassava silkworm, willow silkworm and wild silkworm. Silk strips extracted from a single cocoon are called cocoon filaments.

Speaking of the discovery of silk, there is a beautiful and touching legend! Leizu is a hardworking woman and doesn't want to be idle. She often leads tribal women to peel bark in the mountains and hemp in the fields during the day, and then together with other women, she peels off the fur of animals that men hunt at night for processing. Soon, all the leaders of the tribe put on their clothes. However, due to overwork, Leizu finally fell ill and didn't think about eating all day. The nurse tried her best to cook many dishes that Leizu usually likes to eat. Lei Zu saw it and shook his head. Just then, a woman suggested going up the mountain to pick some delicious fresh fruit for Lei Zu to eat.

They traveled all over Qian Shan and picked many fruits, but all of them were delicious, sour or astringent, and it was difficult to eat. Until the sun was about to go down, suddenly a woman found small ginkgo in a mulberry forest. They thought they had found good fresh fruit, so they quickly picked a few and hurried down the mountain. At home, no one can bite with his mouth, and there is no taste. It's cooked with fire. After cooking for a long time, the ginkgo fruit has turned into thin white silk thread.

As soon as Lei Zu heard the news, he thought of making clothes with these white silk threads. From then on, Lei Zu personally planted mulberry, sericulture and silk reeling, and passed on this technology to others. In this way, Lei Zu was regarded as a "former silkworm" (silkworm eggs) by later generations, and was regarded as the creator of sericulture and silk reeling.