Man imagine how rare purple silk was during antiquity. You had the Phoenicians making Tyre purple die out of a specific type of snail and the silk made from silk worms. It seems natural that the most expensive tunic you could buy was a purple silk tunic
My thought is it's a byproduct of mulberry farming. Farmers probably started picking cocoons off trees in an attempt to save the trees. Less moths= less caterpillars = less damage to the tress. Someone may have then tried to eat the pupae. There's a long history of eating bugs, especially in asian countries. Or even used it as medicine, making medicinal soup out of the cocoons or some such. (Remember, birds nest soup is also from Asia) The fiber processing then came from from that.
It should still be tobacco I think. The word that the silk grower's brother used is 旱烟 I think. Self grown and dried tobacco, but should still be tobacco.
I thought the same, especially when he wanted to be paid in "tobacco" lmao. And the fact the they wouldn't show it & when he handed it to him he covered it using the excuse it was raining but didn't even look like it was raining & everything was dry. Hahahaha Well Played Sir, Well Played.
David, the common greeting in China is Ni Hao. its not that hard. try it. N i H a o. its not arcane. a billion or so people say it every day. and thank you is Xie Xie (sounds like shay shay). got it? and people in East Asia generally don't like strangers to touch them. you give a slight bow when greeting and departing. study the culture next time, eh?
You were clearly more focused on pausing the video to sound like a know it all than just finishing it first, forgetting about it, and moving along like the rest of productive civilization
Cook the worms inside as well? ! Please make sure you DID not hear something wrong about what the interpreter said. Be professional and scientific OK? Moths have to come out and make eggs to continue another life cycle. Otherwise the owner’s business cannot be continued. So mislead information.
They would keep a specific amount of individuals (pupae) to rear into adults, which would be responsible for laying eggs to continue on the cycle. (Similar to the process of raising chickens for different purposes)
