Now, the pinyin is s m: ng, a pictophonetic character. Words from the mulberry from the page, the mulberry also sounds. "Page" refers to the head. "Mulberry" means Mulberry. "Mulberry" and "Page" together mean "Mulberry is flush with human head". Original meaning: forehead. Description: Mulberry trees in ancient times were usually relatively tall, so mulberry pickers had to climb a ladder to pick leaves.
Mulberry trees as tall as people's heads are easy to pick without climbing ladders. Therefore, the ancients specially created the word "Wei" for this mulberry tree as tall as people. The process of squeezing the fabric into a certain amount in clothing to make the fabric bulge is also called "slimming".
Mulberry belongs to Morus of Moraceae and is a deciduous tree. Mulberry leaves are ovoid and feed for silkworms. Deciduous tree, height 16m, DBH 1m, shape or broad oval, sharp or gradually shortened apex, round or heart-shaped base, rough and blunt serrations, young leaves often split deeply, leaves are hairless, hairs are sparsely distributed along the lower veins, and hairs are clustered in the axils of veins.
Because of the high economic value of mulberry, especially silk is a first-class textile raw material, with the development of national economic construction and the improvement of people's life, the demand for silk will also increase day by day. Therefore, all localities can appropriately develop mulberry planting according to local specific conditions.
Mulberry varieties:
Mulberry germplasm collected and preserved in China belongs to 3 varieties of 15 mulberry species, which is the country with the largest number of mulberry species in the world. Among them, the cultivated varieties are mulberry, white mulberry, Guangdong mulberry and Mizuho mulberry.
Wild mulberry species include long spike mulberry, long fruit mulberry, black mulberry, China mulberry, fine tooth mulberry, Mongolian mulberry, mountain mulberry, Sichuan mulberry, Tang ghost mulberry, Yunnan mulberry and chicken mulberry; The varieties are ghost mulberry (Mongolian mulberry variety), big leaf mulberry (white mulberry variety) and drooping mulberry (white mulberry variety). An ancient and rare mulberry variety.