0193 - Shengze Town -- Foremost Silk Producer In China. The remaining front...Back

Shengze Town -- Foremost Silk Producer In China. The remaining front gate of a temple for a woman sericulturalist at Shengze. In the temple was enshrined a woman statue holding two silkworm cocoons, said to be the first woman who raised silkworms. Photo Gao Meiji