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Silk culture may originate in China as …

Years: 2637BCE - 2494BCE

Silk culture may originate in China as early as the third millennium BCE; Chinese tradition ascribes its discovery, and the invention of the silk reel, to Xilingji, the fourteen-year-old wife of Huangdi.

Early sericulture consists of small-scale production by raising and domesticating the silkworm Bombyx mori.

The cultivation and weaving of silk begins to be a closely guarded secret in China.