Lei Zu is the princess of the Yellow Emperor and the daughter of Xiling family. Inspired by the spider's web, she began to look for ways to weave. Later, she made the first dress out of silk and taught it to people, so she was called the founder of the textile industry.

2. Construction industry: Luban

Lu Ban, surnamed Ji, was born in Lu at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Lu Ban was born into a family of artisans for generations. He has seen and even participated in many civil engineering works since he was a child, and has accumulated rich practical experience. When he grew up, he was already a skilled craftsman.

In addition, Lu Ban is an excellent inventor. He is smart, good at thinking, strong in practical ability, and good at observation, so he can get inspiration from life. He created many inventions.

For more than two thousand years, various legends and stories about Lu Ban have been circulated among the people. Today, Luban is still admired by people, and he is still respected as the founder in civil engineering, carpentry and other industries.

3. Weaving industry: Huang Daopo

Huang Daopo was a native of the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. Born in poverty, she was sold to others as a child bride at an early age. Later, she fled alone and took a boat to Hainan.

In Hainan, she takes Taoist temple as her home and works and lives with her Li compatriots. Although Li people live in Hainan, an extremely backward and barbaric place, they have mastered very advanced knitting methods and tools. Huang Daopo studied under the Li nationality. Clever, she quickly learned how to use cotton-making tools and weave cliff quilts.

After living in Hainan for decades, Huang Daopo is homesick. Finally, she returned to her hometown Songjiang by boat. In her hometown, she passed on what she had learned for decades and promoted advanced textile tools. In just a few years, Songjiang area has become the national cotton textile center.

Huang Daopo was admired by people. After her death, people established a shrine to commemorate her. Later, people honored her as the ancestor of the textile industry.

4. Tofu industry: Liu An

Liu An was the royal family of the Western Han Dynasty, the grandson of Emperor Gaozu, and attacked the king of Huainan. In the early Han Dynasty, the vassal states were very independent, basically independent kingdoms. As the king of Huainan, Liu An can do many things he wants to do.

Liu An loves literature and has a profound literary foundation. He has written Biography of Li Sao and compiled books such as Huainanzi, and his thoughts are active. He also explored soybean milk and further made tofu. He became the founder of tofu.

5. Tea industry: Lu Yu

Lu Yu, who lived in the Tang Dynasty, was very interested in tea. He loved tea all his life and pursued the true meaning of tea ceremony. After a long-term visit, investigation and research, he became more and more familiar with various tea planting, breeding and processing technologies, and was also good at tea tasting.

In the end, Lu Yu wrote his life's research into a book-the world's first monograph on tea studies, Tea Classic. It was after the publication of Lu Yu's Tea Classic that more and more people drank and tasted tea.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Lu Yu

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu An

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Huang Daopo

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Leizu

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Luban