The History of Planting Mulberry and Silkworm in Jiaxing

Jiaxing has a history of planting mulberry and raising silkworms for more than 4,700 years, and its sericulture production, cocoon processing and silk trade are leading the country and are world-famous.

Jiaxing has a history of silk culture of more than 4,700 years. It was known as the "Silk House" in ancient times and the "Silk Capital of China" in contemporary times. Silk has a long history. Jiaxin Silk Garden integrates mulberry planting, sericulture, silk reeling, weaving, printing and dyeing, and clothing. You can understand the whole process from cocoon to silk clothing, traditional industrial chain and modern production technology, which is very ornamental.

Jiaxing, as an important protection and inheritance area of "China sericulture and silk weaving skills", has issued policies and measures such as "Jiaxing sericulture and silk weaving ecological zone protection plan" (20 10-20 15), and named Haining City, Tongxiang City and Xiuzhou District as the first batch of sericulture and silk weaving cultural ecological zones. It has successively invested in the construction of Jiaxing Silk Museum, Tongxiang Zhouquan Silkworm Custom Culture Museum, Haining Yunlong Silkworm Custom Culture Park and other exhibition venues for silkworm silk weaving and silkworm custom culture.

Introduction to sericulture history

Silkworm rearing means raising silkworms and planting mulberry. It is an important pillar of ancient agriculture. Legend has it that Lei Zu (the wife of the Yellow Emperor) invented it. Silkworm rearing is the main culture of Chinese culture, which, together with paddy field culture, marks the maturity of farming civilization in East Asia. On the other hand, the main culture of Chinese culture, silk culture and porcelain culture, marks the heyday of Central Plains civilization.

On June 7th, 2008, sericulture was approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Silk is the basic raw material of silk, and silk culture is actually a highly developed and mature stage of sericulture culture. Mulberry is planted to supply sericulture, and sericulture is to make silk. There are many concepts about silk in Chinese, such as twill, silk, satin, silk, brocade, embroidery and silk, which shows that silk culture is highly developed.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Silkworm (Lepidoptera) Baidu Encyclopedia-Jiaxing Sericulture History Baidu Encyclopedia-Sericulture.