Abstract
The artificial field rearing technology of Tussah silkworm is the first creation of China's sericulture, and thus opened the industrialization process of modern silk industry in the world. Because the literature on the origin and dissemination of the artificial field rearing of tussah is more in ancient Chinese books, the international overall research on the technology of the artificial field rearing of tussah academic papers is very rare. By referring to many ancient documents and translating them, this paper points out that the origin of artificial field rearing technology of tussah silkworm is in the late Ming and early Qing dynasty (from the beginning of the 15th century to the middle of the 15th century), and the only place of its origin is the mountainous area in the southwest of Shandong province, from which it spread to Henan, Sichuan, Anhui, Guizhou, Japan, Russia and European countries.
Highlights
The artificial field rearing technology of Tussah silkworm is the first creation of China's sericulture, and opened the industrialization process of modern silk industry in the world
The artificial field rearing technology of tussah was first developed in China. 1Silkworms are mainly fed indoors, while tussah silkworms should be fed in the wild
The tussah silkworm used for weaving silk cocoon is domesticated from wild silkworm seeds. 2China four or five thousand years ago began artificial rearing of silkworms, and the history of artificial field rearing tussah silkworms only four or five hundred years ago
Summary
Throughout the history of Chinese agricultural books before the Song and Yuan dynasties, such as "Nongsang Jiyao", "Wang Zhen Nongshu", there is no record of tussah or wild silkworm, it can be seen that the tussah rearing did not appear at that time, the emergence of "wild silkworm cocoon" is a natural phenomenon in the pure wild environment. In the qing Dynasty, Zhang Song (1697 -- 1758) recorded this in the book "Shan can Pu", which was translated as: tussah silkworm appeared for a long time, they lived in the wild in the early period without artificial field rearing and were left to fend for themselves. In the Qing Dynasty, people mastered the technology of artificial field rearing tussah silkworm, and improved the weaving process, and woven pongee. In the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi wrote in the Annotated Book of “Nongzheng Quanshujiaozhu”, "The techniques of artificial field rearing tussah silkworms are known to include mulberry and cudrania, and the farmers of The Donglai 8region can use many species of silkworms..."[9] At that time, the people with oak trees, pepper trees, toon trees, chu trees to raise tussah silkworms. The discovery, understanding and artificial field rearing of tussah are closely related to people's production practice.[11]
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