Silk culture may originate in China as…
2637 BCE to 2494 BCE
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.
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