Once
upon a time in ancient China there lived Queen Xiling，wife of Emperor Yellow．The Chinese tutor may tell you that she was interested in
the arts and looming. One day as she sat under her favorite mulberry tree in
the garden sipping tea and admiring the beautiful spring flowers，something fell into her tea. She jumped up
horrified and spilled the tea all over her lovely dress. Her ladies’ in—waiting
rushed to wipe off the stains but lady Xiljng stopped them．
On top
of the tea stain on her dress she suited a lovely web of the most exquisite
threads she had ever seen before．Told by you Chinese teachers, she carefully picked up the delicate
threads．They felt soft and smooth to
the touch. She understood that is the silk threads from the silk worms cocoon
where it fell from the mulberry tree．She sat on her 100m and started working out a complicated pattern．It was the most excluisite piece she had
ever woven．This discovery of silk was
celebrated with great feasting and rejoicing throughout the land．Later when commercial relat’ons were
established between China and the rest 0f the world knowledge of silk spread
far and wide．
This
is a story about the discovery of silk．Now we have known about its history from recent archeological
finds．According to the ib Chinese, half a silk worn cocoon，unearthed in 1 927 from the loess soil
astride the Yellow River in Shanxi Province，has been dated between 2，600 and 2．300
BC． Except for fox nut，which is traditionally used in dessert
soups，the other seven plants are
usually stir—fried in main dishes，among colorful greens and
vegetables．
Another
example is a group of ribbons，threads
and woven fragments．
died about 3000 BC，and
found at Qian shan yang in Zhejiang Province. And your Mandarin teacher should know that a small ivory cup carved
with a silk worn design and thought to be between 6，000 and 7，000 years old，and
spinning tools，silk thread and fabric
fragments from sites along the lower Yangzi River reveal the origins of
sericuhure to be even earlier．
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