1. The cocoon cannot fill the basket with hard work, and the silk reeling under the lamp will be longer. I don’t know where I came from, but I am greedy and have mandarin ducks embroidered on my clothes.
——Tang Dynasty·Jiang Yigong's "Ode to Silkworms"
2. The spring silkworms will not run out until they are dead, and the wax torch will turn into ashes and tears will not dry up. ——Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty "Untitled·It's hard to say goodbye when we meet"
3. Things also have benevolence, and the contribution of silkworms is immeasurable. Use your body to make clothes for the world.
——Song Dynasty·Dai Biaoyuan's "Ode to Silkworms"