Who knows the story of silkworm silk?
After the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou, in order to celebrate the victory of the war, he wrote a piece of music called "The Song of Character". According to the record of "Returning to Tibet" quoted from Volume 5 of Yi Shi, this song consists of ten chapters, such as "Thunder Surprise", "Tiger Surprise", "Ling Kui Roar" and "The Carving of Pigeons". At this time, the Yellow Emperor, sitting on the throne in the center of the main hall, was even more eager and in high spirits. Just at this moment of celebrating happiness, I saw a beautiful girl dressed in horse skin descending from the sky, holding yellow and white intertwined silk, yellow as gold and white as silver, coming to the Yellow Emperor. This horse skin sticks tightly to the girl and can't be taken off at all. If she draws the edges of the horse skin and completely covers her body, she will immediately become a silkworm with a head like a horse, and she can continuously spit out slender and shiny silk from her mouth. According to Shan Hai Jing Overseas North Jing, there are three mulberry trees in the northern wilderness with bare branches and no branches. The girl climbed on her knees and spun silk day and night, so people called this wilderness the wilderness of Oss. Why did this beautiful girl become a silkworm and a silkworm god in horse skin? It turns out that in ancient times, there was a small family with a father, a daughter and a stallion. Once, the little girl's father went out on a long trip. One day passed, two days passed ... but after a long time, he still didn't come back. The girl feels lonely and often misses her father. One day, she jokingly said to the male horse in the stable, Ma, if you can help me get my father back, I will marry you. Hearing this, the horse jumped at first, then broke the reins, rushed out of the stable and drove off. I don't know how many days I ran. Malay to the girl's father's residence. When the girl's father saw that it was his own horse, he was surprised and happy. He thought that something had happened at home, and the horse came to tell him, so he immediately turned on his horse and went straight home. When she got home, her daughter told her father that there was nothing at home, but she missed her father. When Ma learned, she welcomed her father home. Originally, his daughter's father liked this horse very much, but now he likes his own horse more and more after listening to his daughter. He gave it fine feed, but the horse just stared at the rich food and refused to eat it. He had a bad temper. However, as soon as he saw the little girl coming, he showed another look, jumping and screaming, and his expression was abnormal. The father felt very strange when he saw this, so he took the opportunity to ask his daughter, "Tell me, why does our horse jump and bark at the sight of you?" The daughter had to tell her father what joke she played on the horse that day. Her father scolded her severely and forbade her to go out of the gate of the yard. Father likes this horse very much, but he must never let it be his son-in-law. In order to avoid long-term trouble, his father shot the horse with an ambush bow and arrow in the stable, then skinned it and dried it in the yard. One day, while her father was away, the little girl kicked Ma Pi and scolded: You beast, you still want to be your wife! Now peel off your skin, you deserve it! The words sound just fell and Ma Pi suddenly jumped up from the ground, wrapped the little girl's body and ran to the door. After several turns in the air, it disappeared into the vast Yuan Ye. After the incident, the father looked for his daughter everywhere, looking and looking. A few days later, he found his daughter among the branches of a big tree. However, at this time, she was wrapped in horse skin and became a crawling insect-like creature. She shook her head like a horse slowly, and from time to time she spit out gold thread from her mouth and wound it around the branches. Later, people called this spinning creature "silkworm" and this tree "mulberry". This is the source of silkworm today. The little girl later became a silkworm god. After the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou, the silkworm god came to dedicate her silk to the Yellow Emperor to celebrate the victory of the war. When the Yellow Emperor saw this beautiful and rare thing, he was amazed: Well, now there is another kind of treasure in the world! The silkworm god was deeply moved to see that the Yellow Emperor cared so much about the world. Without hesitation, she courted horse skin and turned into a silkworm, with yellow and white silk in her mouth. At this time, the Yellow Emperor was also very moved, and immediately sent someone to give the silkworm to Yuan Pei's wife Lei Zu. Lei Zu is the most outstanding female singer among all women. She is virtuous and kind. When she heard about it, she personally put the silkworm on the mulberry tree and took good care of it every day. When Lei Zu first started sericulture, people followed suit. Silkworm eggs proliferate and more and more silkworms are born. Leizu and the women kept weaving light and soft silkworms, like running water. In this way, picking mulberry, sericulture and weaving, a beautiful and cheerful job like poetry, became the specialty of ancient women in China.