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Silk Road and the Great Wall of China
centuries, silk and spices were the most prominent items of Chinese exports. In China, silk is produced and already in 1200 BC Even today the country remains the largest producer of silk. Here’s how the myth tells of the origin of its production.
The legend of the goddess of silkworm
Lived, was a girl, her father often otluchalsya from home on commercial matters. One day, taking care of horse, she said that misses his father and marry for the one who will return him home. Immediately horse pomchalsya to find. Far away from home, the merchant suddenly saw his horse got scared and that happened to her daughter in trouble. Jump on a horse, he poskakal home, but the house he saw that the daughter is alive and well, that all is well, and the daughter asked why the horse, it has caused. She said: The horse, he knew how I miss without you.
death knight
In gratitude for his deed horse was refined food, but looked unhappy and refused to eat. Only when the girl was near, he get up in the rear and quietly rzhal with excitement.
A trader said the daughter, so why the horse is behaving strangely. It pripomnila his words on marriage. His father was angry because tog that the horse was going to marry his daughter. Bated rancor, the owner podkralsya to stall and killed the horse, and hide hang to dry in the sun.
Implications
The next day, walking with friends, the daughter became a mock skin, but that suddenly took off and the air, turned around the girl and claimed her away.
After returning home, his father with the help of neighbors began to search her daughter. Finally, all seen wrapped in a horse at the top of the skin damsel mulberry and were struck by its strange appearance. It turned into a kind of worm with a horse’s head, from which streamed the endless threads of white silk. She carefully wrapped them around themselves. So it has turned into a goddess of silkworm. Later, the goddess descended from heaven, and presented a gift to the Yellow Emperor cocoon silk. He was very happy and was with his wife grow silkworm. So in China there was the production of silk.
Great Wall of China
On one of the greatest man in the world monuments of monumental architecture, too, there is a legend. Great Wall of China started to build in the time of Qin dynasty (from about 214 BC) to protect from attacks fierce nomads. The height of 8-10 meters and a length of 5 000 km, the wall is a stronghold of earth, faced with bricks and stones. This building was a monument of engineering talent of the people built the Great Wall of China many centuries ago.
Husband of a Maine Tszyannyuy also attracted to the construction of the Great Wall. This honor is very proud of the family. But after many months of absence of her husband did not return home. Tszyannyuy scared gorevala, sacrificed gods appealed to higher authorities to return to her husband. But no one knew nothing about his fate. Eventually it became clear that he was killed, as well as many builders, sacrifice their lives for the protection of China. On hearing this, Tszyannyuy tears, her tears flow and the wall.
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