Dayu took Xuangong and Huang Ge, bid farewell to Pang, went down to Tongbai Mountain, and came to the land in the south. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The customs of the south are very different from those of the Central Plains. In the fields of the Central Plains, wheat, millet and corn were cultivated, and men cultivated the fields and went up to the mountains to hunt, while women picked cotton, spun yarn and weaved cloth. It is the so-called "male ploughing and female weaving".

The fields in the south are planted with rice and taro. The men ploughed the fields, planted rice, and cast nets to catch fish. The women picked mulberries, silkworms and tea. It is the scene of male ploughing and female "picking".

Almost every household here raises silkworms. There are spring silkworms, summer silkworms, and autumn silkworms. The girls and daughters-in-law of the family have to go up to the mountains to pick mulberry leaves and carry them home to feed the silkworms.

From afar, the mountains are all over the place. Where there are mulberry trees, there is a mulberry picking girl. The mulberry picking girl stretched out her dexterous hands and kept busy picking mulberry leaves. They were picking mulberry leaves and singing mountain songs. The graceful figure is dotted with green hills and green fields. It is a beautiful scenery in the south.

The climate in the south is fiery and winters are short, or not at all. The people wore very little clothing, and the men were bare-backed, with a hide or bark around their waists. The women are surrounded by sackcloth, plantain leaves, or palm silk. The lower body is wrapped around a short skirt.

The people who wore clothes were rich families and officials who were in power. The richer also wore silk or brocade garments.

This kind of silk and brocade clothes are worn on the body, which is elegant and luxurious, with a soft and fine texture and bright color, like a god in the sky descending to the mortal world.

The silk and brocade used for the garments were woven from silkworm silk.

Ordinary people, although they raise silkworms, are reluctant to wear silk. Because the value of silk is very high, it can be exchanged for a lot of grain, pottery, linen and other necessities in the market.

Taking silk to the Central Plains is even more valuable, and it can be described as "inch-inch-gold for inch-inch-gold". Therefore, the people of the south live in the land of fish and rice. Except for the reluctance to wear silk, ordinary days are quite good.

Dayu has walked through village after village, and has walked through one town after another. He found that almost every village head and every eup-eup-e The temple is adorned with a beautiful girl. The girl has a handsome face, a plump body, a kind expression, and a dignified manner. He was dressed in noble silk clothes, but behind him was a white horseskin cloak, and a white horse stood beside him.

In some temples, beautiful girls wear horseskin cloaks and sit on the back of white horses with their legs together.

Dayu was curious, asked the local people, and learned that this god (qi) is called "Ma Tou Niangniang". Also called Ma Ming Bodhisattva, or Ma Ming Wang. He is a silkworm god.

These aroused Dayu's curiosity. The first time I heard of a woman being called king, I thought it was very fresh. So I asked the bottom of the matter to know the origin of this horse-headed lady.

On this night, Dayu and the other three stayed overnight in the Matou Niangniang Temple. Just fell asleep for a while, Dayu saw that the temple suddenly brightened, and the statue of the horse-headed Niangniang on the table suddenly moved. Dayu hurriedly woke up Xuangong and Huang Ge.

At this time, I saw the horse-headed Niangniang speak: "Dayu don't come to be harmed?" Dayu hurriedly stood up and said: "You are the Matou Niangniang? Please forgive Dayu for disturbing, Dayu came to the south for the first time, and saw the temples of the gods everywhere, which was quite novel, so he wanted to know the origin of the gods. ”

Ma Tou Niangniang said: "It seems that Dayu really doesn't remember the things in the sky." Okay, then I'll take you back in time to have a look. Dayu said: "Then thank God." Matou Niangniang walked to Dayu, grabbed Dayu with one hand, and grabbed Xuangong and Huang Ge with the other, and instructed: "Please close your eyes." Dayu and the three of them closed their eyes, only to hear the horse-headed lady say "up". So he led the three of Dayu through time and space and returned to the past era.

It turned out that this beautiful and peculiar horse-headed lady was originally from Shu (now Sichuan), and her original name was Rongrong. But her original body was not a mortal person, she was from heaven. She is a spirit worm in the sky, called the celestial worm.

In the past, there were no silkworms in the world, only silkworms in the sky, called heavenly insects. This heavenly insect is a spiritual creature in the sky, white and fat, and its body is flexible and graceful. She grows in the heavenly insect garden. The insect garden is full of linden trees, plane trees, olive trees, fairy trees and other strange trees. Blooming with strange flowers and bearing strange fruits. Immortal springs gushed out of the ground, and tinkling and clanging through the garden. Butterflies and bees fly, and the garden is full of fragrance.

The insects live leisurely in the garden every day, eating fairy leaves, drinking nectar water, and spitting silk every seven days. The silk she spits out is full of colors.

The weaver girl in heaven used this silk to weave silk and brocade. No need to dye, born with its own patterns and patterns. These silks and brocades were specially designed for the Emperor of Heaven and the gods of the heavens.

For thousands of years, the insects have been living like this in the sky, because they eat fairy leaves and drink nectar water, so the insects have long been psychic. She usually looks like a fairy, only every time she spits silk, she will turn into the appearance of a celestial insect, and after spitting out silk once, she will return to the appearance of a fairy.

It is said that there is also a white Pegasus in the sky, and this Pegasus was originally the son of the Eight Heavenly Dragons. As the saying goes, a dragon gives birth to nine sons, each of which is different. This Tenma is the youngest son of the Eight Tenryu, and he looks like a horse, and he is very handsome, so people also call him Tenryuma.

Pegasus lives in the sky, unrestrained, alone, and free. It's just that I don't have a partner, I don't have a friend, I feel very lonely, very lonely.

One day, Pegasus walked into the Celestial Worm Garden and saw the Celestial Worm spinning silk. Looking at the appearance of the insect, it is also snow-white, with the same horse head and the same horse face as himself. I felt very kind, and thought I had found the same kind.

Since the moment Pegasus saw the Celestial Worm, Tenma has fallen in love with the Celestial Worm, especially after the Celestial Worm spits out the silk and returns to the appearance of a fairy, it looks even more beautiful, holy, and elegant, like a white angel. It makes people feel close.

Pegasus doesn't think that the Celestial Worm is an alien. I don't think that love can't happen between different people. He fell deeply in love with the insects.

Pure love is sometimes of no different kind. Tenma also feels the love of Pegasus, and gradually falls in love with Pegasus.

Every time the worm doesn't spin silk, Pegasus takes the Pegasus to swim outside, and the Pegasus thinks that it is very indecent for a daughter's house to ride on the back of Pegasus with her legs spread apart. So he sat on his side on Pegasus' back with his legs together. Play around the world.

Year after year, Pegasus carries the heavenly insects, the heavens and mortals, and travels everywhere. They have been to the East Sea and walked through the vast expanse of blue waters. I have also been to the Kunlun Mountains in the West. Fly over the snow-capped holy peak of the Third Goddess. I have seen the big fish in the north - Kun, and I have also seen the big bird in the south - Peng. I have also seen the famous mountains and rivers and rolling red dust in the mortal world countless times.

One day, Pegasus carried the insects and passed through the mortal sky. The insects saw the people of the mortal world, the men were barebacked, and the women were wrapped in linen dresses, working all day long, just to fill their bellies, and they could not even wear a single garment. The girls were even more pitiful, they were in the prime of life, but they had no clothes to wear, and some of them only covered their bodies with bark or animal skins. So, the heavenly worm was moved by pity.

The heavenly worm spat out a bunch of silk, chewed it with its mouth, and sprinkled it on the mortal world. These chewed silk instantly turned into baby insects and fell into the woods of the southern land.

The baby insects came to the world, and they tasted all the leaves in the mortal world, most of them were unpalatable, and only the leaves of the mulberry tree could be eaten. So these baby insects climbed one by one on the mulberry trees, and since then they have fed on mulberry leaves. Because they were eating the leaves of the mortal world, the silk they spit out also lost its color, and was only white.

The growth habits of baby insects have also changed. They spend their lives in four forms. The first form is an egg. The eggs are yellow or black grains the size of millet grains, and the second form is the larval stage, i.e., baby worms. During this period, they have to go through "four sleeps, five years", and then spin silk and form cocoons. It enters the third form, that is, the pupation stage, and about half a month after pupation, it emerges into a moth. That is, the fourth form. The moth is covered with white scales and has beautiful wings, like a white angel. After these angelic gates are feathered, they each look for a mate, form a pair, and leave offspring. The cycle of life is completed—returning to the earth after death.

The cocoons formed by the baby insects were left on the tree, and they hung on the branches, like fruits, and like wind chimes, swaying in the wind on the tree.

The people passed by here, saw these cocoons, thought they were very beautiful, and touched them with their hands, they were soft and soft, warm and warm. So he took them off and took them home. Silk was extracted from these cocoons and woven into silk from these silks. This silk is beautiful, soft, lightweight, and durable. Rich people and people in positions of office are very fond of this kind of thing, and they flock to it. Be willing to pay a premium for it.

The people saw that the cocoons could be sold for money, and that the cocoons could be exchanged for a lot of food and daily necessities. So the people climbed up to the mountains, plucked the wild silkworm cocoons from the mulberry trees, and knitted silk. Later, he also caught the baby worm back home and raised it at home. The women of the family can't go to the fields to plow the fields and farm, so they can go up to the mountains to pick mulberry leaves and raise insect babies.

People harvested insect cocoons by picking mulberry and raising baby insects. They were brought back to the market for daily necessities such as grain, linen and pottery, which improved their lives and supplemented their households. The lives of the people are getting better and better. But the people don't know where these baby worms that can bring benefits to their families come from and what their names are.

On this day, a white-bearded old man came to the city, wearing silk clothes, with crane hair and a childish face, fluttering like a fairy. The people of Yi thought he was an immortal. So he asked the fairy for the origin and name of this baby worm.

The immortal said: "This insect baby came from heaven, and it was the poor people of the mortal world who had no clothes to wear, so she used the doppelganger technique to turn a part of her body into her own appearance and scatter it to the mortal world. The baby worm's name is 'Celestial Worm.'"

After hearing this, everyone didn't know what the celestial insect was, so they found a pen and begged the immortal to write down the name.

The immortal picked up the pen and wrote the words "Heavenly Worm" on the bamboo slip.

At that time, the writing was written from top to bottom, with the word "sky" written on the top and the word "worm" written on the bottom.

Since the immortals write very quickly, the characters are written with some sloppiness. The two words "Worm" are closer and almost connected together, so the word "Worm" has become a "silkworm". Since then, people have called baby insects "silkworms".

Things in the world are often fly in the ointment. These baby insects from the sky, silkworms, have brought wealth to people and added beauty to the world. They are carefully raised, but they are still not adapted. It is easy to be infected with diseases and warm epidemics, and if you are not careful, you will die in batches, and sometimes even the whole end of the nest, so that the silkworm farmers will not harvest the grains. Mortals are helpless against these diseases and plagues.

Seeing all this, the heavenly worm was very sad and anxious. I feel sorry for the fate of these elves who have their blood flowing in their bodies, and I am always worried about their fate, and I can't think of any good ideas to protect and save their fate.

After thinking about it, in the end, Tianworm decided to go to the mortal world to reincarnate as a silkworm girl. Come to the side of the silkworm babies and personally guide the silkworm women in the mortal world to raise the silkworm babies well, and bless these silkworm babies to grow up healthy and happy.

At this time, the Celestial Worm thought of the Pegasus again. Tenma loves himself like this, and he goes to the mortal world to reincarnate, and Tenma will be sad when he knows it. After thinking about it again, anyway, it would take decades to go to your mortal world for a reincarnation. One day in heaven is a year on earth, and according to the days in heaven, it is only a few dozen days. I had to be separated from Tianma for dozens of days, and it was nothing, anyway, I and Tianma were young, and there was time in the future, and the future would be long.

The Celestial Worm made up his mind and said that he would go. So the insects came to Shu, where silkworm farming was the most prosperous, and was reincarnated into a hard-working and kind silkworm family. made a silkworm girl and named her Ranche.