The Emperor's Wife Ancestral Mother-The Emperor's Wife The legend is that Huang Emperor's wife, the Ancestral Mother, invented silkworm breeding. Once the ancestor drank water in the wild mulberry forest. There were wild silkworm cocoons falling on the tree and dropped into a water bowl. When the branch was picked, the silk hanged out, and it continued to grow more and more. The ancestor used it to spin. Weaving clothes and began domesticating wild silkworms. Nuo ancestors were sacrificed by the later generations as silkworms, and there have been rituals of the queen's concubines and ancestors in previous dynasties.

In Shengze Town, Suzhou, Jiangsu, there is still a sericulture temple built in the 7th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1827). It is the only temple temple to worship sericulture. But it also shows that at least in the late Qing Dynasty The sacrifice of the ancient silkworm ancestral temple, until 1949, can still see some silkworm temples similar to the ancient silkworm temple in many sericulture areas, but also dedicated to the "first silkworm" ancestors. There is also a ancestral temple in Xiangfu Temple Lane of Suzhou, which is the place where Suzhou emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi (2697-2599 BC) was sacrificed.

In the folklore of Suzhou, Xunzu became the youngest of the three daughters of Xuanyuan Huangdi and was affectionately called the three girls by folk silkworm farmers. Legend has it that the Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi invented the loom of silk weaving with the help of the Twelve God Beasts in Heaven, and inspired by the girl who combed her hair with three girls, and invented the souvenir, so that the warp was no longer cut during the weaving process. These legends, like other agricultural inventions, are attributed to one or two heroes in prehistoric times. Although undocumented, some historical facts remain.

There is also a myth about the origin of sericulture in Sou Shen Ji (ancient Chinese mythology, folklore, and Qianbao by the Jin Dynasty), which is quite moving:
According to legend, in ancient times, there were two fathers and daughters in Shu land. The father went out to work and left his daughter to raise horses at home. For a long time, her daughter missed her father, and if she could find her father, she would marry him. After hearing that, the horse broke free of the reins and finally found his father after a bump. He looked at the direction of the house and mourned. The father was very surprised. When Ma returned home, he refused to eat, and every time his daughter went in and out, he hit his hoof. The father felt strange, so he asked his daughter what was going on, and her daughter told the truth. His father thought the incident was a disgrace to his family, so he shot the horse with arrows and exposed the skin to the courtyard.
 
The story slowly spread. One day, the daughter and the girl next door came to Mapi and laughed again: "Why do you want to marry a woman as a beast? Why is it so hard to kill yourself?" Mapi suddenly flew up and swept away her daughter. The father looked around and found them on a large tree a few days later. The daughter and horse hide turned into silkworms at the same time, and they drew on the tree. Their cocoons were thick and large. The girlfriend next door took some of them to raise silk, and silkworm silk came from this.