Tao Te Ching
The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
Leizu 嫘祖
(Léi Zǔ or Xi Lingshi)
27th century BCE
Legendary Chinese empress, inventor of silk
A legendary Chinese empress and wife of the Yellow Emperor, Huangdi, Leizu is credited with discovering silkworms when she was having tea and a cocoon fell into her tea. She then learned how to make silk, invented the silk loom, and taught women how to breed silkworms and weave silk fabrics. She was instrumental in helping her husband establish one of the world’s greatest golden ages. China maintained a monopoly on silk production for thousands years and it only spread to Japan c. 300 CE, to the Byzantine empire in 522 CE, and not to Western Europe until the 16th century.
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