silkworm
ID: 0073 Abbreviation: Silkworm Baby.
Full name: Neolithic Hongshan Culture Crystal Silkworm Baby.
Data: Weighs 923 grams, is 300 mm long, 60 mm wide and 40 mm thick.
Material: The crystal carving is huge, with high transparency, white in the front, red in the middle, and light brown in the tail.
Shape: silkworm baby, round eyes and pointed mouth, no forelimbs, flat body.
Ornamentation: Ornamentation and shape are the same.
Treatise:
The head of No. 73 is like a silkworm, so let's talk about it as a "silkworm baby". Not necessarily, maybe some other insect.
The large size of the silkworm baby is "mulberry silkworm", which is an insect that feeds on mulberry leaves and spits silk and forms cocoons. The contribution to human beings is "silkworm cocoon", "silkworm cocoon" can reel silk, silk is a precious textile raw material, and the economic value of silkworm lies in silk. China has a long history of raising silkworms and reeling silk, China as early as five or six thousand years ago, or even earlier, our ancestors began to plant mulberry trees, domesticate and raise silkworms. In ancient history, there is a legend of "turning silkworms" and ancestors "teaching the people to raise silkworms", and it is said that the Xiling clan of the Yellow Emperor's concubine is the "first silkworm", that is, the earliest person who raised silkworms. Neolithic archaeology shows that before 2750 B.C., the ancestors of the Qianshanyang area of present-day Wuxing, Zhejiang Province had used silk to weave silk into silk sheets, ribbons and silk threads. In the thirteenth century B.C., names such as mulberry, silkworm, silk, and silk were found in oracle bone inscriptions.
Because silk clothes are beautiful and comfortable, they have won the love of all the peoples in the world, which opened the "Silk Road". The "Silk Road" facilitated exchanges between East and West, and its historical significance was great, and it is still relevant.
