Hi everyone,
Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #523 — Charging the silk 蚕丝阵.
This guzheng etude was composed and recorded yesterday, performed by me. I read about how silk was made in China more than 5000 years ago. Silkworms are the larvae of Bombyx mori moths. The caterpillars eat only mulberry leaves. When they get big, they spin two threads of silk from the sides of their body. A gummy substance called servicing makes the threads stick together. The silkworm wraps these threads around itself to form a cocoon.
To make silk, workers collect the cocoons. Some are set aside to hatch into moths, to make more silkworms. The rest of the cocoons are boiled to kill the larvae inside. Then workers unwind the silk, very carefully. The strand from one cocoon can be 1,000 feet (300 m) long! I am stunned again by all of this process. To unwind my brain, I made this piece.
Wish you all get to re-charge yourselves over the weekend!
Wu Fei 吴非
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