Leizu: Empress of the Silkworm: Educational Version

By Alex Rounds

In the days not long after the pharaohs in Egypt, there lived a woman in China. Leizu (say lee - zhoo) was an empress. She lived in a beautiful palace in China. The palace had a huge garden filled with many trees and flowers.
Leizu and her husband, Hoangti loved to walk through their gardens. The emperor and his wife loved their people and always thought of their happiness.
One morning Hoangti and his wife were in the beautiful palace garden. They walked up and down, up and down, talking of their people. They needed to find a way to make their people happy. If they did not, the people might follow a different leader.
The emperor talked on and on of how to help his people. They needed money and things they could trade. They also needed a new way to make clothes.

Find out about this empress who discovered how to unwind the cocoon of the silkworm and weave the threads into cloth in this 15-minute biography.

Ages 8 and up.

The Educational Version has activities that meet Common Core Curriculum Standards.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: LearningIsland.com
• Release date: Sep 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301742271

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LEIZU:

EMPRESS OF THE SILKWORM

By Alex Rounds

Based on a Tale from Old China

A LearningIsland.com

Tale of Old

Editor: Jennifer Robinson

Smashwords Edition

(c) Copyright 2006 LearningIsland.com.

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Leizu: Empress of the Silkworm / Alex Rounds

Summary: The story of the empress who discovered how to make silk cloth.

1. Folk Tales. Juvenile Literature. 2. China. Juvenile Literature. 3. Chinese History. Juvenile Literature.

Created in USA

Words: 1415

Reading Level: 4.2

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LEIZU

EMPRESS OF THE SILKWORM

In the days not long after the pharaohs in Egypt, there lived a woman in China. Leizu (say lee - zhoo) was an empress. She lived in a beautiful palace in China. The palace had a huge garden filled with many trees and flowers.

Leizu and her husband, Hoangti loved to walk through their gardens. The emperor and his wife loved their people and always thought of their happiness.

In those days the Chinese people wore clothes made of skins. They would tan the skins of bears, deer, and many other animals. They would scrape the fur off and make the skins into soft cloth.

The

Reviews for Leizu

[Jeannie Meekins · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A good book that tells the background of silk how it came to be in use today.