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      As the hometown of Leizu, the inventor of mulberry silk, and the cradle of silk culture, Sichuan has a long history of over 5000 years. Chinese silk holds a leading place around the world.  

      Being healthy, green, environment friendly, fashionable, elegant, comfortable, noble and refined, silk is honoured as “queen of fibers” and enjoys a reputation as “the second layer of skin to human body”. It is popularly received by people around the world. 

      In 202 BC, Zhangqian was sent by the imperial court of Han Dynasty to the Western Regions as an envoy , which opens up the “Northern Silk Road” that starts from Chang’an, and connects countries along Persia, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean, Chinese silk from that time on began to go out to the world. 

      Western Shu abounds with silkworms and silk. According to legend, that was handed down from “Cancong Ancient kindom”, which literally means “gathering of wild silkworms”. As early as in Western Han dynasty there was Shu shen du dao, known as “Southern Silk Road”. It starts from Chengdu, goes through Yunnan and Burma, leads the way forward to India, Europe, and Central Asia. Together with Gansu silk road, which stands in the northern area, they enhances each other’s beauty and played an extremely important role in connecting Eurasia continents and promoting economic and cultural exchanges between eastern and western countries. 

      Memorial Park of Southern Silk Road gives extra connotation to the Southern Silk Road, which, with a brand new idea, is to inherit the mulberry silk history of Sichuan and carry forward the silk culture of the City of Silk (another name for Chengdu), integrating the image of silk culture landscape in time and space into sightseeing and youth education bases. This park takes mulberry, silkworm, silk, and silk fabric as its main line, and offers interactive experiences on planting mulberry, breeding silkworm, and reeling silk to give a living demonstration of the whole process from the industrial chain of “mulberry, silkworm, cocoon, silk, silk fabric”, helping tourists and youngsters from home and abroad to feel the innate quality and infinite charm of Chengdu Jinli, the City of Silk, and appreciate this beautiful scenery of the starting point of Southern Silk Road in this embroidery and flowery human aura.