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How does silk travel north and south? "Wind Creatures" takes you to see a silkworm baby's cross-time travel →

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After people discovered the mystery of silk

I can't do without it anymore

Silk weaves clothes and weaves culture

Five thousand years in tandem

Silk all over the country

How to embellish our lives

Let's find out

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"Millennium Silkworm Township" Shiquan

In 1984

National first-class cultural relics of the Han Dynasty "gilded copper silkworm"

Unearthed in Shiquan, Shaanxi

It proves that during the Han Dynasty, Shiquan planted mulberry silkworms

It already has a very large scale

How does silk travel north and south? "Wind Creatures" takes you to see a silkworm baby's cross-time travel →

Since ancient times

There is no tree like a mulberry tree

Meet the people

The multiple needs of "clothing, food, shelter, practice, and medicine"

"Millennium Silkworm Township" Shiquan

There is a tradition of eating mulberry into the food

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As early as the Qin and Han dynasties

Shiquan is the town of silkworm mulberry

At that time, the center of China's "mulberry cultivation and silkworm breeding" was in the Yellow River Basin

Shiquan is located in the middle of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River

That is, it belongs to the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin

The sericulture industry is developed

Historically, Shiquan belonged to Hanzhong County

It is also on the only way from Chang'an to the Sichuan Basin

Therefore, it has also become the "source of the Silk Road"

"Silk House" Huzhou

Huzhou, Zhejiang is known as the "Silk House"

It is a dense network of water and rivers

The ecological agriculture model of "Sankey Fish Pond" has been created

In this mode

Water is the core

Fish are raised in ponds and mulberries are planted on the mounds

Mulberry leaves feed silkworms, and silkworm excrement feeds fish

The silt in the pond can also be used to fertilize mulberry

How does silk travel north and south? "Wind Creatures" takes you to see a silkworm baby's cross-time travel →

Before and after the small full solar terms

Silkworm babies grow up

The amount of food eaten increased significantly

Mulberry leaves are added whenever needed

Therefore, this is also a sericulture family

The season when mulberry leaves are picked in large quantities

How does silk travel north and south? "Wind Creatures" takes you to see a silkworm baby's cross-time travel →

A month later

Silkworm babies begin to mature into cocoons

They spit out silk threads

Wrap yourself in an S-shaped cocoon

How does silk travel north and south? "Wind Creatures" takes you to see a silkworm baby's cross-time travel →

Sacrifices and achievements

Often come together

Hundreds of years ago, it was made of silk weaving

Silk called "Aya" and "Silk"

Known as the "Flower of Oriental Silk Weaving Craftsmanship"

This is far from the beginning of Huzhou's silk history

In 1958 at the Qianshan Yang site

Unearthed silk fabrics

It is what China has discovered so far

The earliest domestic silk fabrics

It has been more than 4,700 years

How does silk travel north and south? "Wind Creatures" takes you to see a silkworm baby's cross-time travel →

Such a beautiful "fragrant cloud yarn"

It was actually dyed in the mud

It is also a "Sankey fish pond" model adapted to local conditions

Produced silk

What is the difference between the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta?

In Shunde, Guangdong

There is no polluted silt in the river

"In combination" with the plant potato

It can be used to dye a blank silk

"Three washes, nine boils, eighteen suns"

Long and complex 30 processes

Creating silk treasures "Xiangyun Yarn"

The ancient Silk Road spread the technique of cultivating mulberry silkworms to the west

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Tang and Song dynasties

The center of China's silkworm industry

Transfer from the Central Plains to Gangnam

At the same time, the ancient Silk Road also ushered in a great development

Mulberry silkworm reeling textile technology

Spread west along the Silk Road

Enter Xinjiang

Silk has a heritage meaning here

How does silk travel north and south? "Wind Creatures" takes you to see a silkworm baby's cross-time travel →

In the small village of Dariyabuyi in Xinjiang

The "Arrow Costume Ceremony" is being held

The gown is usually sewn with black satin

The biggest feature is

Seven arrow-shaped sky-blue silk strips are sewn on the chest

The "archery ceremony" is local

Equivalent to a woman's "coming-of-age ceremony"

The mother-in-law dressed her daughter-in-law in an arrow suit tailored for her

On behalf of the daughter-in-law, she was recognized by the elderly in the family

It means that she has since taken over the burden of the family

Arrow costume culture with satin here

Passed down from generation to generation, life goes on

"Moving from East to West" continues technology and culture

After the start of the "East-West Shift" project in 2006

Cooperatives are concentrated and co-nurtured

It is redistributed to sericulture in free-range farming models

It has been popularized in villages and towns in Nanning, Yizhou, Xincheng and other places in Guangxi

With the "East and West Shift"

A large number of silk reeling factories settled in Guangxi

Here, a thumb-sized cocoon

It can extract more than 1,000 meters of silk

Seven or eight cocoons can be combined into a silk thread

Nowadays, the raw materials for many domestic silk products come from Guangxi

High-quality raw silk produced in Guangxi

Some have crossed the ocean and exported to Europe and the United States

How does silk travel north and south? "Wind Creatures" takes you to see a silkworm baby's cross-time travel →

Guangxi, as China's new sericulture center

In the gradual rise

meanwhile

A place where silkworm mulberries flourish for a long time

Nor has it ever declined

From "City on the Water" to "Jinshang Gusu"

Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, weaves itself into the history of Chinese silk

Silk not only created a legend of silk

It also became a source of beautiful music

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Transferred from: CCTV "Wind Objects"

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