Question

How was Silk Discovered?

Answer 1

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According to well-established Chinese legend, Empress Hsi Ling Shi, wife of Emperor Huang Ti (also called the Yellow Emperor), was the first person to accidentally discover silk as weavable fiber.

One day, when the empress was sipping tea under a mulberry tree, a cocoon fell into her cup and began to unravel. The empress became so enamored with the shimmering threads, she discovered their source, the bombax mori silkworm found in the white mulberry. The empress soon developed sericulture, the cultivation of silkworms, and invented the reel and loom. Thus began the history of silk

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Answer 2

HELLO MY DEAR FRIEND

             ◆THE DISCOVERY OF SILK◆

CHINESE TRADITIONS, ALONG WITH WRITING OF CONFUCIUS TELL THE THE SAME 2700 BC TALE. IT STATES THAT THE IMPRESS LEIZU ( HSI-LING-SHI) WAS HAVING TEA ONE DAY UNDER A MULBERRY TREE WITH HER HUSBAND, EMPEROR HUANG-TI, WHEN A SILK WORM'S COCOON FELL INTO HER CUP.
 
IN AN ATTEMPT TO TAKE IT OUT, THE THREAD OF THE COCOON BEGAN TO UNROLL. SO THE EMPRESS THOUGHT THAT OF WEAVING THE THREAD. THE EMPEROR, ENCOURAGED HIS  WIFE THAT TO STUDY THE LIFE OF THE SILK WORM, AND SO SHE HAD LEARNED THE ART OF RAISING SILK WORMS OR WHAT IS "SERICULTURE". HER FINDING WAS TAUGHT AS WELL AND THUS THE ADVENT OF THE SILK INDUSTRY.

HOWEVER, ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES SHOW THAT THE ORIGIN OF THE SILK INDUSTRY TRACES BACK TO 3000 AND 5000 BC. THE SITES OF YANGSHAO CULTURE IN XIA COUNTRY, SHANXI REVEAL A COCOON OF A BOMBYX MORI OR A DOMESTICATED SILK WORM ALONG WITH SILK WEAVING LOOMS.

I HOPE THIS WILL HELP'S U.............*-*

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