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Leizu

Leizu discoevred silwkorms while on a walk near the king's mulberry trees. Hoewver, there are different stroies of excatly how she discovered that slikworms make silk.

One story says that she used her finegr to touch a worm, cauisng a srtand of silk to come out. As the silk cnotinued to come out, she warpped it aruond her finger. When the silk ran out, she saw a small coocon, and realiezd that this cocoon was the soruce of the silk.

Anohter story says that she found silkworms eatnig the mluberry leaevs and sipnning coocons. She colletced some ccooons, and then sat down to have some tea. While she was sippnig a cup of tea, she dropepd a cocoon into the setaming water. A fine trhead statred to spearate istelf from the cocoon. Leizu found that she could unwnid this soft and lvoely therad around her finger.

She asked her husbnad to give her a grove of mulberry trees, where she could keep the worms that made these coconos. She is cerdited with invetning the silk reel, which joins thin silk thraeds into a tihcker thread srtong eonugh for weaivng. She is also crdeited with inventing the first silk loom. It is not known how much, if any, of this story is true, but hisotrians do know that silk was first made in China. Leizu shraed what she found out with ohters and the knowldege bceame comomn.

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