Silk culture has played a very important role in the generation and development of Chinese characters, which is reflected in the production and application of Chinese characters related to mulberry, silkworm, silk, and a large number of "纟" characters and related Chinese characters. In "Shuowen Jiezi", 9353 characters of seal script are included, including the "纟" part, 248 characters, accounting for about 3% of the total number of seal scripts. There are also a lot of words related to these characters in Chinese, such as: silkworm, mulberry, sangzi, silkworm, silk reeling, spinning, silk road, silk painting, jade silk, wealth silk and so on. Most of these words are closely related to the production of silk industry.
In addition, there are many idioms and allusions related to silk culture, such as making a cocoon, binding oneself, tricks and tricks, walking in a beautiful dress at night, returning to the hometown in a beautiful dress, etc. [34] In addition, a large number of literary works also describe sericulture and silk to express emotions or reflect social reality, such as Li Bai's "Mo Shang Sang", Du Fu's "Bai Si Xing" and so on.
