It is said that Luozu, the wife of the Emperor Xuanyuan promoted the technology of raising silkworms and weaving silks.

the person was luozu, the emporors wife who was drinking tea under a tree and a silk worn fell into her cup. she then unrafeled the cacoon and got fine, thin peices of silk. she ordered her servants then to make her husband a cloke out of this silk and they ever seince then unraveled the silk worms cacoons.