Activities to commemorate Leizu, the mother of the Chinese nation
Leizu is the mother of the Chinese nation, and Leizu is the princess of Xuanyuan Huangdi, the ancestor of Chinese civilization. It was she who created silkworm breeding, smoked silk scarves and created clothing civilization, and was known as the "originator of silk"; It is she who started the civilized marriage custom of "eight worshippers get married". Men get married at the age of 30 and women get married at the age of 20, so she is called the founder of "marriage civilization" Ray Zu Er. Since the reform and opening up, Xinzheng has held four Leizu memorial activities. The fifth Leizu Festival should be held this year.
Historical Records says: "The Yellow Emperor married the daughter of Xiling as Lei Zu." Xiling is located in Xiling Mountain Area, Yichang City, Hubei Province. Two said "out of Yancheng, Sichuan" and three said "out of Yang Rong, Henan". Legend: She is born smart and is called a child prodigy. When I was a child, I thought a lot, listened well and asked a lot. Guang Zhi, a gifted boy, is very original. As an adult, she paid extensive attention to human life and was resourceful. In daily life, she saw naked people in the world, which was very unseemly. So I began to think about changing this custom. One day, on the hillside of Xiling Mountain, she found a tree called Mulberry. There are many silkworms crawling on the tree, spitting silk to form cocoons. Lei Zu soaked the cocoon in water and found that he could take it out, tidy it up, cross it horizontally and vertically, and connect it carefully, and it grew bigger and bigger. She tied the connected pieces around her waist, keeping her figure hidden and wearing a dress that didn't show her heart. Others feel very decent and praise her. The new dress is full of praise, saying that she is clever. This situation was widely known, passed around and reached the ears of the Yellow Emperor. "
"In the past, spring has come. On a sunny day, the Yellow Emperor and the accompanying Changbo and others came to Xiling Mountain to visit Xian, and they met a virtuous woman-Lei Zu. I saw her picking cocoons in the mulberry field, wrapped in a gold waist scarf and silk scarf, shining gently in the sun. There was a pile of cocoons in front of her, and the Yellow Emperor was in a daze, thinking to himself. Is she the legendary girl who raises mulberry and silkworm? Chang Bo saw the mind of the Yellow Emperor and hurried forward for interrogation. At this time, Lei Zuwang, Huang Di and Chang Bo, were well behaved, logical and generous, and distinguished. He generously told them stories about raising mulberry, silkworm and silk scarves. After hearing this, the Yellow Emperor saw this fact with his own eyes. This is a great event that benefits the country and the people. If you accept her, let her pass on her skills to the world, and let the people of the world have a towel to hide their ugliness and clothes that change with the seasons, it is indeed a blessing for the people and a great contribution to future generations.
Chang Bo heard the whisper of the Yellow Emperor, expressed admiration for the daughter who raised silkworms and weaved towels, and stated the advantages of silk. Take advantage of the situation to talk about the position of the Yellow Emperor, let the girl follow him to Beijing to preach art, Lei Zu observed his trip, and after thinking, he decided that this person was extraordinary and would make great achievements in the future. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he flatly expressed his willingness to follow the Yellow Emperor into Beijing.
Along the way, Leizu several people laughing, know fairly well, chatting, slowly asked, very strange. Lei Zu knew the Yellow Emperor's family affairs like the back of his hand. After the Yellow Emperor and Chang Bo returned to various countries with bears, they called the governors of various ministries, and court officials asked Lei to pass on his ancestral scriptures. At this moment, Lei Zu said nothing. Chang Bo asked Leizu why he didn't say a word. Lei Zu said, "What am I? You call the governor of Kyushu and court officials. " ? I'm just a girl from a mountain village, and I'm not qualified to speak. After hearing this, Huangdi thought hard and decided that she was "Silkworm Zheng". Hearing this, Lei Zu is out of his mind? It is said that only the governor of Kyushu and the eight central officials of North Korea have never heard of the official position of "Silkworm Zheng". At this time, she thought she was single and left Xiling for Xiong Guo. What should she do if she is cheated? I thought to myself, I don't want an official position, I want human feelings. I asked Chang Bo, "Does the Yellow Emperor need someone to take care of his clothes?" If you want to seal it, seal me as the official of clothes around you! Or I'll go home and raise silkworms. "Chang Bo a listen to, the in the mind understand, thought I also when the matchmaker. So he reminded the Yellow Emperor: "You are thirty years old this year, so it's time to talk about concubines." The Yellow Emperor said, "Today is an official meeting. How can we talk about the princess? " Chang Bo said, "As long as you don't think this girl is a poor girl in the valley, I will convince her. "The Yellow Emperor said," I never thought that choosing a concubine would be said to be poor and rich in a mountain village. As long as I can think of people and make them rich, this is the most fundamental condition. "After hearing this, Chang Bo and Lei Zu agreed to the wishes of the Yellow Emperor and told the officials about Lei Zu's experience in raising mulberry and silkworm in his hometown. His position as a princess accords with the ideals and wishes of both sides. After listening to Chang Bojian, everyone called Leizu to play in unison and taught him the experience of sericulture and silk scarves. Lei Zu said that with the experience of raising silkworms and weaving towels, he organized ten women and children to personally teach the production experience of raising silkworms and weaving towels, which gradually spread all over the world, and all of them could raise silkworms and weave towels. Solved the white clothes of people all over the world. Consider her marriage with Xuanyuan Huangdi again. "
Lei Zu s Etiquette of Creating Marriage Civilization;
After Lei Zu had the experience of raising silkworms and weaving towels in Xiongdu City, he often asked the Yellow Emperor about the marriage first. The Yellow Emperor said, "Any time is fine. Often see Lei Zu said first, the yellow emperor said, living in the palace today, Lei Zu a listen to, said nothing, thinking, can't get married blindly. How many social chaos comes from family and marriage. Because of the blind day of marriage, I can't love life and bring a lot of troubles. The relationship between husband and wife should be based on mutual care and love, and they want to be together in their hearts and careers, so as to become a happy family. Due to family and marriage, many men and women in society are dissatisfied with life, beating and cursing, eating and living separately, women running and men chasing. Men and women promiscuous, jealousness and jealousy, brake people and so on. Didn't they all appear on the basis of marriage blindness day? There are also some bad phenomena such as forced marriage robbery, bartering for marriage, and more tribal exchanges. As the head of a country, the Yellow Emperor should set an example, influence people with himself and set up a new look of marriage customs. Lei Zu thought, we still have to guard against the Yellow Emperor liking the new and hating the old, and crowding out himself. I thought a lot and realized a set of marriage contract law, and then explained this idea to the Yellow Emperor in detail. After hearing this, the Yellow Emperor thought that what Lei Zu said was very reasonable, and it was a good prescription to help the country's stability, a happy family life and the people's hearts and customs. He highly praised Lei Zu's way of using the marriage ceremony system to stabilize society and control family life. This is also a major event conducive to China's stability. With a stable, United and happy family, it will not cause great events of national stability. With the stability, unity and happiness of thousands of families, isn't it the gene of national stability and unity? They are like-minded and have the same understanding. So the Yellow Emperor made Leizu a princess. After several months of acquaintance, they made the transition from March to June 6, and got married on the Yuanyang terrace on the top of the ancestor's hill in the west of Huangdi Capital. " Worship heaven, earth, Japan, Yue Bai, mountains, rivers, ancestors and couples. "Up to now, the ancestor peak in Shandong, as well as the ancient Yuanyangtai site. On June 6th every year, people climb mountains to worship their ancestors to commemorate the Yellow Emperor and Leizuxia season. When everything is thriving, people will hold a festival to commemorate their wedding. It has a long history and has become an ancient temple fair. In Shizu Mountain, generations of people climbed mountains to commemorate the sacred day of marriage civilization.
For thousands of years, people began to record monthly mountaineering activities (June 6) to commemorate two major events of Lei Zulimin. One is to raise mulberry and silkworm and create civilized costumes, which is known as the "originator of silk". Second, create the custom of eight-worship marriage and promote marriage civilization.
Up to now, there is still a site where the Yellow Emperor and Leizu became married, also known as Yuanyangtai. Mulberry and silkworm were raised in Leizu Mountain, leaving many sites. In recent years, more and more mulberry trees grow freely on the ground. Although they have been cut down many times, they still thrive. Multiply in large numbers. What does this symbolize? People think that it symbolizes Lei Zu's remarkable achievements in raising mulberry and silkworm in the mountains, and symbolizes "the gods are inseparable". What is even more peculiar is that the mulberry leaves on the ancestral mountain are palm-shaped, which is said to be the "fairy hand deification" of Lei Zusang's sericulture.
Generation after generation, many couples, old and young, climbed mountains to commemorate the wedding date, who married Huangdi and Leizu 800, and sought the blessing of Huangdi and Leizu. May the husband and wife be 100 years old, love each other, have a harmonious family, make their children famous and have a successful career. This folk custom has formed a grand occasion for thousands of years. From then on, after getting married and starting a family, future generations will have a meaningful marriage civilization festival every year.
In the era of reform and opening-up, in addition to folk sacrifices (temple fairs), xinzheng city Yanhuang Culture Research Association, together with municipal women's federations and civil affairs departments, launched memorial activities in two provinces (Yichang, Hubei and Xinzheng, Henan). 200 1, commemorating the 4th Leizu Festival of Clothing Marriage Civilization. And wrote to Lei Jieqiong, vice chairman of the National People's Congress, to write "Lei Zu, the mother of the Chinese nation". Li Baoguang, executive vice-president of China Yanhuang Culture Research Association, wrote "Lei Zu Memorial Site for Silkworm Breeding". Therefore, it is a good thing for the United Nations to make a special declaration to the All-China Women's Federation and the National Civil Affairs Department to set up a national-level activity to commemorate the oldest and most outstanding woman, Lei Zu Day, which will fill the gap in this respect and serve the present and benefit the country and the people. Taking advantage of Lei Zu's 5026 years old this year, the relevant departments in xinzheng city have invited Chinese at home and abroad to celebrate the festival and hold a grand memorial service for Lei Zu.
Lei Zu is the earliest, oldest and most accomplished woman in the world. Lei Zu will be remembered by future generations forever.
The First Silkworm Queen: Leizu
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After defeating Chiyou, Huangdi established a tribal alliance, and Huangdi was elected as the leader of the tribal alliance. He led everyone to develop production, grow grain, domesticate animals, smelt copper and iron, and make production tools; And make clothes for Princess Lei Zu. In the process of dressing, Lei Zu and three other people under the Yellow Emperor made a specific division of labor: Hu Chao was responsible for making the crown (hat); Apollo is responsible for making clothes; Responsible for making shoes (shoes); Rezu is responsible for providing raw materials. She often leads women up the mountain to peel bark and weave hemp nets, and they also peel off the fur of various wild animals hunted by men for processing. Before long, the leaders of all tribes put on clothes, shoes and hats. My mother got sick because of overwork. She doesn't want to eat every day.
Thin. The men and women around are anxious. Several women guarding Leizu tried their best to cook a lot of things that Leizu usually likes to eat. Who knows Lei Zu always shakes his head and doesn't want to eat at all.
One day, these women talked quietly and decided to pick some wild fruits for Lei Zu to eat. They went into the mountains early in the morning, traveled all over the mountains and picked a lot of fruits, but they tasted them with their mouths, and they were either sour or not delicious. Until it was getting dark, I suddenly found a small ginkgo in a mulberry forest. They thought they had found good fresh fruit and were busy picking it, and no one took a sip. After everyone picked up the basket, it was dark. Afraid of the wild animals on the mountain, they hurried down the mountain. After coming back, these women tasted the small ginkgo, which had no taste; I bit with my teeth again, and I couldn't bite any more. Look at me, everyone. I look at you. No one knows what fruit this is. It was out of date, and the shipbuilding drum came over and found several women standing there, becoming speechless, and hurriedly asked what had happened. The women told them the story of Lei Zu picking small ginkgo from the mountain. Hearing this, Gong Gu smiled and said, "You silly women, now we have a fire and a pot. Cook in water if you can't bite! " As soon as he said this, he immediately reminded several women to quickly pour the picked ginkgo nuts back into the pot, add water and cook them with fire. After cooking for a long time, I fished out one and bit it with my mouth, but I still didn't bite. Just when everyone was worried and didn't know what to do, a woman picked up a wooden stick and put it into the pot to stir. While stirring, she said, "See if you are rotten or not, and see if you are ripe!" After stirring for a while, I pulled out the stick, which was wrapped with many white lines as thin as hair. What's going on here? The women continued to stir and entangle, and without much effort, all the small white fruits cooked in the pot turned into white filaments, which looked dazzling and soft. They told Leizu this strange thing at once. Leizu is a hothead. He wouldn't listen, so he went to see it at once. In order not to let her walk, these women brought the thin thread wrapped around the stick to her. Lei Zu is a very clever woman. She carefully looked at the thin thread wrapped around the stick, and then asked which mountain and tree the white fruit was picked from. Then she happily said to the woman around her, "This is not fruit, you can't eat it, but it is very useful. You have made great contributions to the Yellow Emperor. "
Strangely, Leizu started to talk about it every day when he saw this white silk thread, and he became less and less sick and began to want to eat. Soon, she recovered. Despite the Yellow Emperor's dissuasion, she personally led the women up the mountain to see what had happened. Lei Zu observed this kind of small white fruit in the mulberry forest for several days, only to find that it is an insect's mouth, spitting filaments, not the fruit on the tree. When she came back, she reported it to the Yellow Emperor and asked him to order the protection of all mulberry trees on Qiaoguo Mountain. The Yellow Emperor agreed.
Since then, under the initiative of Lei Zu, the history of planting mulberry and raising silkworms has begun. In order to commemorate this achievement, Lei Zu was honored as the "First Silkworm Queen".
Lei ancestral
China, known as the "Silk Country", is the birthplace of silk industry. Silk has not only won the favor of Chinese people, but also enjoys a high reputation abroad because of its soft and breathable properties and colorful varieties.
There are many touching legends about the origin of silk quilts in the history of China, among which the story of Lei Zu's sericulture and silk making is the most recorded and widely circulated in the history books.
According to legend, in ancient times, a beautiful and kind girl was born to a family in Lian Cunshan, Xiling (now Yanting County, Sichuan Province). When the girl grows up, she will go out to collect wild fruits every day to support her frail parents. She is not afraid of hardship or fatigue. When the wild fruits in the vicinity were finished, she waded to the distant place to pick them and came home late every day. Soon, the wild fruits in the distance are all picked. What should I do to support my parents? The hardships of life made the girl cry sadly under a mulberry tree. The crying was so sad and desolate that birds and animals near and far were moved to tears. The crying shook the earth. When the Jade Emperor looked down, he saw a filial daughter of 14 or 15 years old crying her eyes out, showing great mercy, knocking the evil fairy "Ma Tau Niang" down to earth and turning it into a worm that ate mulberry leaves and spun silk. Matou Niang saw the girl's sad appearance, so she dropped the mulberry seeds in her mouth, and the girl licked her mouth sour and sweet. After eating a little, I felt nothing unusual, so I took a lot home for my parents to eat. After eating, the old man's spirit is getting better every day.
On a sunny summer day, the girl found that the insects on the tree kept spinning and cocooning. The color reflection produced by sunlight is very beautiful. Out of curiosity, the girl put one in her mouth and pulled it out by hand. This kind of silk is elastic. She just weaves a small piece of silk into a big piece like a bug and puts it on her parents. It's cool when it's hot, and it's warm when it's warm in winter, so she named the bug silkworm and took it home to feed it. After a long period of experience, the girl completely mastered the production law of silkworm and the skill of reeling and weaving, and passed it on to the local people without reservation. Since then, people have ended the primitive clothing of "eating and drinking blood, clothes and feathers" and entered the civilized society of embroidered clothes.
The news that the girl invented sericulture and reeling soon spread to Xiling tribe. King Xiling was so happy that he took the girl as his daughter and named her "Lei Zu". Lei Zu's earth-shattering initiative soon spread all over China, and tribal leaders went to Xiling to propose to her, but Lei Zu declined. At this time, the handsome and extraordinary leader of the Central Plains tribe, Huangdi Xuanyuan, came to Xiling, and they fell in love at first sight. Soon, Lei Zu was chosen as the princess of the Yellow Emperor. Lei Zu helped the Yellow Emperor defeat Chiyou in the south and Yan Di in the west, coordinated the relationship between tribes, and completed the great cause of unifying China. At the same time, please ask the Yellow Emperor to order the world to promote the brocade technology of planting mulberry and sericulture to the whole country. After Lei Zu died, the Yellow Emperor buried her in Luocun Mountain, and later generations honored her as the "First Silkworm Queen".
Lei Zu was praised by later generations as the founder of sericulture and silk harvesting in China. According to Sui Shu and Book of Rites, she was honored as the first silkworm in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The Northern Song Dynasty's Notes on the Mirror records: "The Xiling family advised silkworm eggs, and sericulture began here." "History of Taoism" systematized the sericulture and silk picking invented by Lei Zu, saying that Xiling family advised sericulture and egg rearing, and personally picked mulberry and silk making, thus creating a silk weaving career. From then on, Lei Zu was regarded as the ancestor of sericulture and silk collection of ancient working women, and was regarded as the silkworm god by the ancient Yellow Emperor. In the future, whenever mulberry is planted and silkworms are raised, people will set up an altar to worship the early silkworms, in order to make the weather good and the silkworms fat. At the same time, it is also used to pay homage to the great invention of Lei Zu. Today, in the grand ceremony to pay homage to the Mausoleum of Huangdi in Shaanxi, there are also activities to pay homage to Lei Zu.
Leizu temple
Leizu Temple, also known as Xilingshan Temple, covers an area of 1.000 square meters with an altitude of 1.08 meters. Built in memory of Princess Leizu of the Yellow Emperor, it was rebuilt in Xiling Mountain on 1.993.
Lei Zu, also known as Lei Zu and Lei Zu, is called "the queen of mother silkworm" by folk silkworm farmers. She is the princess of the Yellow Emperor and the earliest first lady of China. According to Sima Qian's Records of the Five Emperors, the Yellow Emperor lived in Xuanyuan Mountain and married the daughter of Xiling as Leizu. Lei Zu, the princess of the Yellow Emperor, gave birth to two sons, who later won the world. According to legend, after the Yellow Emperor went south to Xiling in the battle with Chiyou, he married the local village girl Lei Zu. Lei Zu was beautiful and clever, and invented sericulture, silk reeling and weaving. Together with the Yellow Emperor, he organized the men, women and children in the tribe, plowing men and weaving women, and jointly founded the ancient Chinese civilization. In order to create a Chinese foundation, he devoted all his efforts and was honored as the "first silkworm" by later generations. Leizu's birthday is on March 15 of the lunar calendar every year, and the "First Silkworm Festival" is held in Leizu Temple, which is unprecedented.
Xiping allusions: Lei Zu
According to legend, Xiping is the hometown of Leizu. Lei Zu is the daughter of Xiling family. Xiping, where Xiling family lives, has Xiling Pavilion, which is located in Shiling Town, west of Xiping County. Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor, invented sericulture, silk suppression and weaving. After the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Lei Zu was revered as a god by later generations, known as the wild silkworm, and worshipped as a silkworm god from generation to generation. Legend has it that Leizu went to the Woods to collect firewood, and a big spider web covered his face. She didn't know what it was, so she ran to the water and took a picture. It looked like a veil, which was very nice. She thought, isn't it easier and more convenient to wrap her body with roving than to wear bark and leaves? Later, she found that silkworms on the mountain can spin silk, which is stronger than spider silk, so she domesticated wild silkworms. But after sericulture, it is very difficult to produce cocoons. Once, Lei Zu was boiling water to cook, and several cocoons fell into the boiling soup. She fished them out in a hurry, and the cocoon pulled up the silk thread. The Yellow Emperor gave Lei Zu and gave it to Sang Lin to teach people to raise silkworms, spin silk, weave cloth and make clothes. Lei Zu dressed people and turned a page in the history of national civilization. In order to commemorate Lei Zu's achievements, later generations built Lei Zu Temple in Shiling to commemorate the previous achievements of Silkworm God. Since then, the temple has been expanded into seven courtyards with magnificent architecture and ingenious design, and a seven-level floating map has been established. Towering in the blue sky, surrounded by pine, cypress and ginkgo trees. On March 3 every year, people hold a temple fair for Lei Zu, which lasts for seven days, singing big dramas and worshipping ancestors, and it is very lively. Now Leizu Temple has been razed to the ground and the ruins still exist.
The great mother of China people, Leizu.
Yichang, called Xiling in ancient times, is the center of Xiling tribe distribution. Records of the Five Emperors in Historical Records records: "The Yellow Emperor lived in Xuanyuan Mountain and married the daughter of Xiling as Leizu." It is said that the princess of China's great ancestor "Yellow Emperor" grew up in this land.
Lei Zu, also known as Lei Zu and Lei Zu, is known by the people as the Empress of Silkworm Mother. As the Yellow Emperor, Yuan Fei was the first lady of ancient China. She and the Yellow Emperor have two sons: one is Xuantao and the other is Changyi. According to the records of Li Ji in the Great Generation and Historical Records, the ancestors of Xia, Shang and Zhou emperors, the twelve princes in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Seven Heroes in the Warring States Period were all descendants of the Yellow Emperor and Lei Zu. Therefore, Luo Zu, the daughter of Xiling, the "ancestor of mankind" who is tied with the Yellow Emperor, deserves to be called the great mother of the Chinese nation.
Lei Zu, smart and hardworking, is the founder of sericulture and silk reeling in China. In order to solve people's food and clothing problems and promote the civilized evolution of human society, he has made outstanding contributions, and has been honored as the "first silkworm" by future generations, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad. According to the report entitled "Resume the First Silkworm Festival which was interrupted for 85 years" published by South Korea's East Asia Daily in May 1993, 16, May, 993, during the celebration of the 600th anniversary of the capital of Seoul, the first Silkworm Festival will be resumed to honor the Xiling family in China.
Luo Zu not only taught people to raise silkworms and reeling silk, but also assisted the Yellow Emperor in traveling around Kyushu and tried his best to create China's cultural heritage. In the end, he died of overwork and was buried in the peak of Hengshan Goulou on the way out to patrol.
Yichang people, as the hometown of Luoju, have a fine tradition of respecting the virtuous and respecting the ancestors. As early as the Song Dynasty, Xiling Mountain was listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Zhou Xia (Yichang). In the Ming Dynasty, Xiling Mountain Temple was built on this mountain. On the fifteenth day of the third lunar month, it is said that this day is Leizu's birthday and a temple fair is held. Sacrifice to Luo Zu, handed down from generation to generation. It was not until May 1940 that the ancestral temple in Leizuli was destroyed by the war. To commemorate this great mother of China people, at present, Leizu Temple has been rebuilt in the old site of Xilingshan Temple in our city. After the preliminary project is completed, the' 94 China Luo Zu Culture Seminar will be held here. At that time, relevant experts and scholars from all over the country will gather in the holy land of the great mothers of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor to exchange the research results of Luo Zu culture, so that Chinese culture can be carried forward.
The Connotation of Lei Zu Culture
In order to inherit and carry forward the precious and important historical and cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, the research and propaganda of Leizu culture is in the ascendant, which is a cause that will make great achievements in the future.
Lei Zu, who was recorded as "Princess of the Yellow Emperor" in Historical Records, also recorded that she "taught people to raise silkworms" and "treated cocoons as clothes", and was known as the ancestor of sericulture silk in China. Leizu, and Wen Zu, Zu. As early as the pre-Qin bronze inscriptions, there was a surname, which Sun Yirang thought was a combination of the two characters Leizu. From the analysis of glyph structure, the sound of "ai" and "tired" comes from "qi", the word is the ancestor of ancient Chinese, and the female indicates gender. Therefore, the word "Li" is pronounced as "Li", "Mo" and "Tired". In fact, Leizu is a province where the two words are combined. Mr. Chen Zhi thinks: "The legendary Yellow Emperor Yuan Fei and Lei Zu may have a sign." (New Evidence of Historical Records) In Zuo Zhuan, we can read Lei's surname, and Ying Shao's Tongue of Customs and Zheng Qiao's Tongzhi Genealogy all think that Lei Zu is a descendant. From the point of view of surnames, "girls say their surnames" (interpretation), "think their surnames are born" (interpretation) and "surnames mean their children" (interpretation), then we can trace back to the Spring and Autumn Period and push it up from the "tired tiger" recorded in Zuo Zhuan, whose ancestor is Leizu, which completely conforms to the so-called "surnames" in ancient China. From this point of view, the Princess Lei Zu Er of the Yellow Emperor did exist in history. She is not invented by later generations, but faithful and has signs.
All previous dynasties regarded Lei Zu as the "first silkworm". Since the Han Dynasty, the royal families of all dynasties have held large-scale sacrificial ceremonies and activities to "worship the first silkworm", aiming at promoting the development of sericulture cultivation through these ceremonies and activities, thus promoting the prosperity of agriculture and economy. Therefore, in ancient China, Lei Zu has actually become a cultural symbol and a driving force for the continuous development and progress of agriculture and mulberry industry, including various factors such as economy, science and technology. At the same time, as the imperial concubine of the Yellow Emperor, Lei Zu was highly respected by the regime established by the royal family, including ethnic minorities, so she was endowed with the lofty image of the Chinese nation's humanistic matriarch and the cultural connotation of the origin of the Chinese nation's cohesion. Therefore, we should understand Leizu from four aspects: invention and creation, scientific and technological progress, economic development and national cohesion, deeply explore its cultural connotation, and vigorously promote Leizu's culture, so as to promote the pace of western development and promote China's comprehensive construction of a well-off society.
Yanting County, Sichuan Province is rich in Lei cultural resources. Over the years, leaders at all levels and the people of the county have been working hard to explore, study and publicize the culture of Leizu, and have achieved some important results. Since 1994, I have been fortunate to participate in it, read many weighty academic papers, and visited a large number of cultural relics and relics unearthed in Jinji and Gaodeng, which belong to our county for many times, especially the high enthusiasm for the people of our county to vigorously promote the culture of Leizu. Therefore, in June 1996 1 1, the research and writing of "Lei Zu culture", a key soft science project in Sichuan province, was completed, and the origins of early silk in Lei Zu and China, sericulture in Lei Zu and Bashu were systematically studied, thus gaining a deeper understanding of Lei Zu culture.
At present, the comprehensive and in-depth study of Leizu culture is still on the rise, and I hope to get strong support and attention from leaders at all levels, academia and all walks of life, so that the research, propaganda and development of Leizu culture will reach a new level.
Mr. Cai Zhenbang has devoted himself to the study of Lei culture for many years, and has made many achievements and made many contributions to the construction of Lei culture in Yanting County. His perseverance is admirable. This collection of essays on Lei Zu's culture brings together the main achievements of his years of research, and its publication will undoubtedly play an important role in the further development of Lei Zu's cultural research. (End)