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Leizu: Empress of the Silkworm: Educational Version
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By Alex Rounds
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In the days not long after the pharaohs in Egypt, there lived a woman in China. Leizu (say lee - zhoo) was an empress. She lived in a beautiful palace in China. The palace had a huge garden filled with many trees and flowers.
Leizu and her husband, Hoangti loved to walk through their gardens. The emperor and his wife loved their people and always thought of their happiness.
One morning Hoangti and his wife were in the beautiful palace garden. They walked up and down, up and down, talking of their people. They needed to find a way to make their people happy. If they did not, the people might follow a different leader.
The emperor talked on and on of how to help his people. They needed money and things they could trade. They also needed a new way to make clothes.
Find out about this empress who discovered how to unwind the cocoon of the silkworm and weave the threads into cloth in this minute biography.
Ages 8 and up.
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The origins of silk are known to extend back to the Neolithic period in China and the earliest fragment found of the material has been dated to BC. The great philosopher, Confucius, writes of the 14 year old Empress Leizu, wife of the Yellow Emperor, watching a silk worm cocoon that had fallen into her teacup. As she removed the worm, the thread of cocoon unravelled. She saved the thread and wove it into a small piece of fabric.
The empress was so fascinated by the long thread and the small piece of beautiful material that she created that she asked her husband to give her an orchard of mulberry trees. She encouraged her ladies to collect and raise silk worms and thus began the noble art of sericulture. Leizu is known as the Goddess of Silk.
Sericulture was restricted to women for many centuries and gradually became a thriving industry. Its use was stringently limited by the authorities and for over years, silk was only worn by the Emperor and his royal entourage. It was a symbol of great wealth and power.
Fragments and silk articles have been excavated from the royal and noble tombs all over China, one of the most notable being the Hubei tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng, who was buried in BC, with fragments of silks.
The use of silk gradually extended to the noble clas