THE SILK GODDESS OF CHINA 

 AND HER LEGEND. 



SUMMARY. Introductory. 

 §1. Present worship of Si-ling she. — 2. Is no proof of its genuineness. 



I. Ancient Geography of Sericulture. — 



§3. Silk industry indigenous in China. — 4. Attributed to Si-ling she 

 Lui-tsu yuen-fei. — 5. Sill?; of Shan-tung in the Shu king. — 6. Silk 

 mentioned in the Yh king. — 7. The Tribute of Yii, the oldest des- 

 cription of China. — 8. Products of four provinces. — 9, Products of five 

 provinces. — 10. Candid view to be taken of these statements. — 11. 

 Silk and cloth from Tsiu-tchou and Yang-tchou. — 12. Stuff and silk 

 from King-tchou and Yu-tchou. — 13. Four instances only of silk in the 

 Eastern provinces. — 14. West and Central China had no silk. — 15. 

 Shan-si, the Chinese focus had silk on the East. — 16. Late allusion 

 in the Shi-king as to S. Shensi. — 17. Poetical description of sericul- 

 ture, — 18. It had been introduced from the East. — 19. It developed 

 there under the Mongols and disappeared. — 20. The Tchou li mentions 

 silk only in Honan and N. Shansi. — 21. The sericulture of Sze- 

 tchuen is not primitive. 



II. Calendaric Rules, Rites and Customs. 



§22. Entries about silkworms in the Brief Calendar of the Hia dynasty. — 

 23. In the Ritual of the Tchou dynasty {Tchou It). — 24. In the Yueh 

 ling of the Li Id, with reference to a sacrifice to the ancient Em- 

 perors. — 25. On the Royal culture of silkworms. — 26. The Princesses 

 like the Queen must attend to silkworms. — 27, Silkworms and silk in 

 the Shi king. — 28. ~No souvenir of their discovery. 



