In 2479 BC, the Yellow Emperor was hunting in the mountains and forests, and met a woman dressed in gold and picking "white fruits". A move by the Yellow Emperor opened up ancient human beings, a brilliant epic, created an ancient civilization, and benefited the entire Chinese nation.
During the Yellow Emperor's period, people's clothing was very simple. Some people put a bunch of leaves on their bodies, some people peel off the animal skin, dry it, and wrap it on their bodies, which is considered clothing. Others wore sackcloth clothing, hard and rough.
Once, when the Yellow Emperor went hunting in The Ancestral Mountain, he saw a woman raising silkworms in the Mulberry Garden, wearing a gold-colored robe made of silk.
The Yellow Emperor had never seen such a beautiful dress, and asked how the clothes were made, but the woman said: "Not a husband, not to teach."
This woman is the ancestor who invented the silkworm breeding. So, how did Changzu invent silkworm extraction?
Once, when Changzu was picking wild fruits in the forest, he found a crystal clear white fruit. Yan Zu salivated, quickly picked one, took a bite, did not bite, and chewed hard, actually could not chew rotten.
Yan Zu was curious, "Can you boil it with water?" Changzu thought while picking fruit.
Back at home, Changzu poured the white fruit into the pot, added water, and then set up a fire to cook.
However, after burning for a while, I picked up one and bit it with my mouth, but I still couldn't bite it. Changzu thought that the bite floating on it could not move, and the bottom of the pot might be boiled.
Changzu used a wooden stick to salvage the white fruit below, who knew that one fished two fishes, and none of them were picked up. The Yan clan stirred hard with the wooden stick, pulled out, and found that the wooden stick was wrapped with a lot of hair-like white threads.
She smoked and pestered, and it didn't take long for the white fruits cooked in the pot to turn into thin white silk threads, which sparkled and looked very attractive.
She picked up one, and the white and transparent filament stretched longer and longer, endlessly. Changzu wrapped the silk thread around with a short branch and wrapped it around into a ball.
"Hey, what's this?" Yan Zu was more curious, and she decided to go back to the mountain forest and figure out this strange thing.
As soon as the sky was dark, Changzu ran to the tree on the mountain, and after three days and three nights of fixed-point observation, he finally found that the "white fruit" was not the fruit of the tree, but a kind of white flower insect, and the silk spit out of the mouth was woven around.
She also discovered that the bug grew on only one tree, eating the green heart-shaped leaves of the tree, and later learned that the tree was called a mulberry tree.
Changzu picked a lot of "white fruits" to go home, put them in water and boiled them, and then pulled out the silk thread.
Changzu looked at this clump of white silk thread and suddenly remembered the scene when she woven cloth with hemp rope. The clever ancestor immediately thought that this thing could be used for weaving.
She picked some "white fruits" and wrapped them into silk threads, tried it, and sure enough, she woven a piece of white silk cloth and draped it over her body, soft and beautiful.
This is the world's first silk dress.
The girls in the tribe were very surprised to see it, and The ancestors began to teach them to collect "white fruits" and weave silk.
After the success of the weaving technology, Changzu found that there were too few raw materials, and after exploration, she took the bugs home to raise, breed, domesticate, and began to domesticate.
Later, The Ancestor named this insect "Silkworm".
Changzu led the girls of the tribe to gradually solve technical problems such as boiling cocoons and drawing silk, weaving silk into silk, and making silk clothes.
Gradually formed a set of primitive and complete industrial chains such as mulberry planting, breeding, silkworm raising, silk reeling, weaving, sewing clothing quilts, etc.
The ancestors were industrious and capable, leading their people to raise silkworms and draw silk, spin yarn and weave cloth, and when people had clothes to wear, they no longer had to wear animal skins and leaves.
The Yellow Emperor was eager to move, and also wanted to experience the gentleness of silk, and immediately in the name of learning the art of silkworm breeding, he crowned the ancestor as a yellow concubine.
When she got married, Changzu used the silk she woven herself to make a beautiful dress, and also dyed it red with phoenix petals, which was very beautiful.
He made a spacious robe for the Yellow Emperor and dyed it yellow with the fruit of the yellow gardenia, which was shining with golden light and was very powerful.
After Changzu became the Yellow Concubine, she followed the Yellow Emperor to chase deer from the Central Plains, and everywhere she went, she passed on the skills of silkworm silk to the locals.
Everywhere she went, she left behind her immortal deeds of spreading the silkworm silk civilization and opened up the history of cultivating mulberry silkworms.
In order to commemorate the merits of her ancestors, people revered her as the "First Silkworm Lady". Changzu became the inventor of silkworm silk and benefited the entire Chinese nation.
@Belle History
As the wife of the Yellow Emperor, Changzu not only assisted the Yellow Emperor to achieve the unification of the tribe, but also promoted the cultivation of silkworms and clothing to the world, creating an ancient civilization.
In the process of foreign exchanges, silk not only brings honor and wealth to the development of the nation, but also becomes a bridge for cultural exchanges between China and the West.
Europeans praised "there was a silk country in the East", which laid the foundation for the later Silk Road.
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References: History, Classic of Mountains and Seas
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