Ancient Chinese families often lived by farming and weaving, farming is farming, weaving is weaving. Although the technology at that time was not as developed as it is now, the cloth at that time was also very exquisite, relying on a pair of skillful hands, you can make a clever dress, and even if you overlap several layers, it is still as thin as a cicada wing, looking very light.
The development of the textile industry is inseparable from the cultivation of silkworms, and only the silk spit out by good quality silkworms can make exquisite dresses. The ancients attached great importance to the development of the sericulture industry, and there are many techniques of sericulture and silk reeling that have been passed down to this day. Silkworms eat mulberry leaves, and eat very much, mulberry leaves will soon turn yellow after being harvested, so raising silkworms requires a large number of mulberry leaves, and the people also have a lot of research on planting mulberry trees.
China has thousands of years of experience and history in raising silkworms and cultivating mulberries, and in addition to the rulers who will formulate relevant laws, the people have also continuously improved their technology in the inheritance. And sericulture plantation is most afraid of disasters, such as the mulberry disaster, such as the silkworm disaster, so how do the people prevent these disasters, and how to deal with them when disasters occur?
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There are many reasons for the mulberry disaster, of which three are the most important and common.
The first reason is that planting mulberry trees will attract many insects that feed on mulberry leaves, and these insects will steal and eat on mulberry trees when the mulberry leaves have not yet grown or matured, so that when the people want to pick mulberries and feed silkworms, there will only be some dead yellow or holed mulberry leaves, the quality of the mulberry leaves cannot keep up, the silkworms are not enough to eat, and the silk spit out is not good.
The second reason is the weather, the weather is cold, not only is not conducive to raising silkworms, but also not conducive to planting mulberry trees, the temperature is too low to the growth of mulberry trees, and the ancient economy is backward, the impact on the weather is not like the current greenhouse, can only let the mulberry trees freeze, too cold, mulberry leaves will fall out, can not produce any mulberry leaves. Without mulberry leaves, silkworms without food cannot spit silk.
The third reason is natural disasters, wind and rain on the planting industry is fatal, in addition to storms and flash floods and other disasters, how windy in the spring, insects also multiply rapidly in the spring, summer rainstorms, prone to flood disasters, and ancient times did not have perfect equipment to resist floods, once encountered natural disasters, the people's efforts will be destroyed.
Ancient silkworm reeling diagram
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The vitality of silkworms is relatively fragile, there are many factors that can lead to the death of silkworms, the cultivation of silkworms is a major event for the people, and some dynasties also have sacrificial activities, which are used to pray that the silk of silkworms can be better and more. Silkworm spit silk has high environmental requirements, once the humidity changes, the silkworm may only eat but not drink water, which will affect the growth of the silkworm and may cause the death of the silkworm.
Weather causes have a large impact on silkworms, and if the temperature drops, silkworms may not be able to tolerate too low temperatures and a large number of deaths. This kind of thing often happens in winter.
There are also natural disasters, such as the impact of wind and rain on silkworms are very large, but these are not human factors, are natural force majeure. The ancients had no way to resist the occurrence of these disasters, but to prevent them and deal with the impact of disasters in a timely manner after they occurred. There are also records in various history books about the methods of governance and prevention, which are the experience and wisdom of the ancients, which have been passed down to this day and have benefited us a lot today.
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Ancient dynasties attached great importance to the development of the agricultural textile industry, and the corresponding sericulture industry also attached great importance to the cultivation of mulberry silkworms, and there were many policies to ensure the development of the mulberry industry.
For example, in the event of the Mulberry Disaster, subsidies are provided to the victims so that they can ensure their livelihood and have special relief funds to help them tide over the difficulties. In addition, the government will give them some new mulberry seeds to restart planting.
In addition to the post-disaster relief of artificial policies, in the development of so many years, the people have also explored some skills.
These techniques are also documented in agricultural books, such as how to cope with the drop in temperature, in the cold winter, they will plant mulberry trees around the dung grass, and then ignite, relying on the ignition of the heat to maintain the temperature, so as to achieve the effect of cold. This method greatly improves the leaf formation rate of mulberry trees and makes mulberry trees grow more luxuriantly.
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The prevention of silkworm plagues is also similar, in the cold winter, the heat generated by burning dung grass is used to maintain the temperature of the house, so that the silkworms can grow silk in a warm environment. Or use torches to increase the temperature, such a method greatly improves the silkworm's silk spitting rate and survival rate, and reduces the chance of silkworm disease.
Farmers without greenhouses try to minimize the impact of temperature on silkworms and create an environment suitable for silkworm growth.
In addition to preventing temperature and humidity is also very important, humidity is also easy to make silkworms sick, so once encountered heavy rainy weather, it is necessary to open the window for ventilation, let the air flow, not to accumulate moisture, timely dredging of accumulated rainwater, to keep the air dry.
But at night, when the temperature drops, you have to close the doors and windows and light torches to keep warm. This kind of experience is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient working people, and it is a wonderful trick that has been passed down for thousands of years.
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Pests have always been a big stumbling block in the development of agriculture, for the cultivation of mulberry trees, silkworms need a lot of mulberry leaves, and other pests also feed on mulberry leaves, mulberry leaves are eaten, silkworms are not full, silk can not spit out. How to prevent the growth of pests is also a big problem.
In the past, farmers who had not read books knew that weeds around plants would affect the growth of plants, and at that time they would remove weeds.
The agricultural book records that the sap of some plants can drive away these pests, so the people specially collect the sap of such plants and apply it to the mulberry tree, or around the mulberry tree, to reduce the stealing and growth and reproduction of pests.
Which plant sap can prevent insects is through the people's many attempts and historical experience of the inheritance, even today, with a good means of pest control, people in some places will still use the previous inheritance of pest control magic.
Raise silkworms to plant mulberries
These methods are not only useful for sericulture mulberry farming, but also have an impact on other cultivations in agriculture, indirectly promoting the development of the planting industry. These natural disasters are beyond human control, but the wisdom of the ancients is unimaginable.
The wisdom of the working people is great, although they do not have developed technology and do not have good tools.
However, with the experience of life and the test of time, they have explored many methods and techniques to resist the influence of nature. In addition to the government's support for the people, it relies more on the diligence and wisdom of the working people.