Gulin, Sichuan: Silkworms weave cocoons in autumn, creating the “silkworm dream” for silkworm farmers to become rich
“I have been practicing this technique since I was a child with my grandfather. I have been learning while doing it for decades.” In the golden autumn of September, autumn silkworms are weaving cocoons. In Shixiang Village, Huanghua Town, Gulin County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, 55-year-old silkworm farmer Chen Deqiang is cooking cocoons and reeling silk. He put the dry cocoons into water and boiled them thoroughly. The original tight structure of the cocoons became loose. The silk reeling machine pulled out the silk from the cocoons. A cocoon the size of a thumb can be About 1,000 meters of cocoon silk was extracted.
Huanghua Town has a long history of growing mulberry and raising silkworms. Basically, all the elderly women who stay at home are familiar with the craftsmanship of silkworm products, including raising silkworms, spinning cocoons, spinning cocoons, silk brocades, and the added value of silkworms. Through the diligent hands of silkworm masters, the number has increased step by step.
“Now this step is the first process, which is to peel off the cocoons and open them into small sheets.” On the assembly line of the Shi’e Village silk workshop making handmade silk quilts, silk quilt technician Zhang Weimin is peeling off the cocoons. She will cook the cocoons Put the silkworm cocoons into the water, use the power of the water to tear the cocoons apart, separate the silkworm pupae and impurities, and then put the silk stretchers on the iron bows to make individual silk pockets.
After the cotton bag is dried in a ventilated and dry place, the female workers skillfully pull the cotton bag into a thin mesh and spread it evenly, and a purely handmade silk quilt is completed. Zhang Weimin said that high-end handmade silk quilts made from dried cocoons after layers of processes such as cooking, cocoon peeling, drying, and drawing can be sold for 1,200 yuan per kilogram.
Relying on historical and environmental advantages, Huanghua Town encourages the masses to vigorously develop the silkworm industry. Mulberry leaves can be used to raise silkworms, tree trunks can be used as mulberry sleepers, high-protein silkworm pupae can be used as food materials, and silk can also be used to make silk cloth and quilts. wait. As a “short, flat and fast” high-efficiency wealth-making industry, the sericulture industry provides a way for sericulture families to get rich, interprets the story of “turning from pupa to butterfly” to increase income, and also inherits the traditional skills of sericulture and silk weaving in the mountains. Weaving the “sericulture dream” of getting rich for generations.
At present, there are more than 80 sericulture farmers in the town, raising spring silkworms, summer silkworms, autumn silkworms, and late autumn silkworms. More than 10,000 kilograms of cocoons are produced in one season, with an average price of 45 yuan per kilogram and an output value of 450,000 yuan in one season. In one year, the output value of silkworm cocoons alone in the town can reach more than 1.8 million yuan.
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