Sericulture and silk weaving are great inventions of China and cultural symbols of the Chinese nation. This heritage includes the production skills of the entire process of mulberry planting, silkworm breeding, silk reeling, dyeing and silk weaving, the various ingenious and sophisticated tools and looms used in the process, and the colorful silk products such as damask, gauze, brocade and kesi produced thereby, as well as the related folk activities derived from this process. For more than 5,000 years, it has made a significant contribution to Chinese history and has had a profound impact on human civilization through the Silk Road. This traditional production handicraft and folk activities are still popular in the Taihu Basin in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu (including cities such as Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and Suzhou) and Chengdu, Sichuan, and are an inseparable part of China's cultural heritage.