What does sericulture mean?

Sericulture refers to sericulture and mulberry planting.

Silkworm rearing was an important pillar of ancient agriculture. Legend has it that it was invented by Lei Zu (the wife of the Yellow Emperor). Sericulture 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 Han culture-silk culture and porcelain culture, marks the heyday of Central Plains civilization.

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 development of sericulture agriculture made the textile industry of Central Plains civilization lead the world for thousands of years, and also promoted the increase of wealth, the polarization between the rich and the poor and the formation of classes, which laid the foundation for the ruling class in China at that time to form a clothing custom marked by Emei Daibo and wide robes and big sleeves. At the same time, it played an important role in promoting the invention of soft pen (brush), embroidery and paper.