This worm should only be in heaven, so why did it fall to earth?
Chinese there is no unified religion, there is no shortage of objects of worship;
Since ancient times, we have worshipped the heavens, worshiped the dragons, and worshipped our ancestors;
The only worship object that can be seen and touched is ~~~
Silkworm babies who sleep most of the time!
In May 2017, in the exhibition hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, a gilded bronze silkworm attracted everyone's attention, and its appearance of spitting silk with its head held high and vivid was amazing;
After 2000 years of wind and rain, its head, chest, abdomen and tail are intact and still shining.
This is a tooth-carved silkworm excavated from the site of the double locust tree in Gongyi, Henan;
5300 years ago, it is exquisitely carved and exquisite, with a concave back and a convex abdomen, a head and tail, and a tight C shape, as if it is about to spit silk.
In addition to golden silkworms and ivory carving silkworms, there are also many jade silkworms unearthed, with straight shapes, curved shapes, and juan-shaped;
These artifacts are enough to show that the silkworm cult has a long history, in ancient times the silkworm was regarded as the embodiment of the gods, and even some scholars believe that the silkworm is the prototype of the dragon!
Doesn't this cool look like an ancient black technology?
To tell the truth, the life of the silkworm baby is a pure, noble, unselfish and self-interested life;
Such creatures, unique on earth, do not know when to come to ancient China, just for dedication, complete the mission and die immediately, leaving future generations to continue the next reincarnation;
The same is all spit silk, and then look at the spider, but can only get bad reviews [cover your face]
Check the information to understand the process of silkworm babies, is almost the process of tears, a silkworm life is only more than 50 days, but it is incredible like a miracle;
At the beginning it is only an egg smaller than a sesame seed, when it first hatches, it is black and small like an ant, and then it quickly eats and grows, after 4 times of molting (four sleeps and four awakenings) to mature silkworms, it begins to spit silk cocoons, silk cocoons when the silkworm body shrinks and pupates, and then breaks the cocoon into a moth, without the slightest breathing, the male moth will mate with the female moth, and then die immediately, and the mother moth will die immediately after laying eggs, so as to complete a short life;
A spring silkworm cocoon can draw up to 3,000 meters of silk, and eventually become gorgeous silk, clothing, and benefit the world, while a spring silkworm needs only a clean environment, a suitable temperature and 25 grams of mulberry leaves in its lifetime;
Xun Zi wrote in the "Silkworm Endowment": There is something here, lily (dumb) its shape, repeatedly transformed like a god, gong is the world, for the world!
If Li Shangyin had not been deeply moved, he would have been unable to write the ancient sentence "Spring silkworm to the end of the dead silk"!
Who are we? Where did it come from? Where to go?
These are the ultimate three questions of human contemplation and the source of all religious questions;
The life of a silkworm seems to provide an answer;
You see, silkworm eggs are the source of life, hatching into ants and silkworms is like the birth of life, a few sleeps are like several stages of life, pupae can be seen as a kind of death, physical death, and the pupa moth wants to fly is what people want to go after death!
The ancients must have seen themselves in the body of the silkworm;
Such a magical and mysterious little life;
The moment it breaks through its cocoon and becomes a butterfly, the soul must have ascended to heaven;
Therefore, when people worship it and imitate it to "cocoon themselves" and bury it in silk, they believe that the soul is immortal and reincarnated forever!
It is recorded in the Book of Rites and Fortunes: "To cure its linen, to think of cloth and drape, to maintain health, to send to death, to do things to ghosts and gods, god, all from its Shuo." ”
The translation is: weaving linen to get cloth, cloth to health; weaving silk to get a veil, and sending it to death.
One of the earliest known silk fabric objects comes from an urn burial at the Yangshao Cultural Site in Qingtai Village, Xingyang, Henan, which was used to wrap children's bodies;
In the Warring States Chu Tomb no. 1 mashan in Jiangling, it can also be seen that the burial custom of wrapping the body in a veil can also be seen;
The phenomenon of the silkworm's life cycle has triggered the ancients' infinite reverie on major issues such as heaven and man, life and death;
This is probably the origin of the word "heavenly worm"?!
Regarding the specific deeds of the silkworm baby, it is not an exaggeration to say that it can be directly named the guardian deity of the Chinese nation!
The world is complex and simple;
Simple enough that one person and one silkworm can achieve the legend of the Silk Road for a thousand years;
Silkworm is in summary, man is the first person to open the history of the world!
From the second year of the Western Han Dynasty (139 BC) to the second year of the Yuan Ding (115 BC), the heroic Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions twice, lasting twenty or thirty years, during which the arduous and indescribable ink was indescribable, and the history was called "Chiseling";
Zhang Qianchi chiseled through the western region with his own strength, the Silk Road was officially opened, and silk, the earliest Made in China, the first carrier of civilization exchanges between the East and the West, was a thousand-year-old sound as soon as it appeared!
From Chang'an in the east, the whole journey reaches the Mediterranean Sea through Central Asia Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria and other countries, ending in Rome, with a total length of 6440 kilometers;
A cocoon can reach about 2000 meters, think about it is incredible, 3220 cocoon silk is connected to the distance from Xi'an to Italy, to the weak to attack the strong, is more than a very fine and soft silk, but affects the entire historical process of human civilization.
The Maritime Silk Road, formed during the Qin and Han dynasties, developed from the Three Kingdoms to the Sui Dynasty, prospered in the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and continued to be closed to the Qing Dynasty;
The road has been bustling and prosperous for thousands of years, witnessing the Silk Road of the Chinese Heavenly Dynasty and the world's first glorious history, and has since declined;
The gorgeous brocade made of silk is very much like the national fortune of China, when the foreign nation invades, with its force and obscurity, the sword falls, and in the blink of an eye, it cuts off this silk, this road, this great country.
From the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China to the founding of New China, three hundred years of humiliation and suffering were passively beaten due to backward material resources, and what was even more cruel was the organized and planned spiritual colonial strategy of the great powers;
A large number of Chinese cultural relics and ancient books have been looted in successive invasions, and with the cooperation of the first generation of public knowledge, they have studied and re-released to us the history that has been deleted, withdrawn, and even cut off;
Physically destroy your generation, spiritually destroy your generations;
When did cultural inferiority and sublime beauty begin?
For most of history, Chinese was not like this, but a completely opposite situation, we called ourselves the descendants of Huaxia, Shenzhou, and Dragon, how proud and confident!
It's time to revisit everything;
On the eve of this rise of China, every Chinese has the responsibility and cultural self-confidence! We have the right to take back everything we have lost!
And cultural self-confidence does not come out of thin air, it is on the Silk Road that once stretched for thousands of miles and passed through the world, waiting for us to explore, to inherit, to expand!
From the Silk Road to the Belt and Road Initiative, connecting China's history and the future of the world, the creator of this magnificent human civilization, the starting point is a spring silkworm of selfless dedication, just like a pragmatic and ordinary you and me;
On the road to China's rejuvenation, stand shoulder to shoulder with your son!
(Image from the Internet)