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"Silk is picked from trees." Why did Rome misunderstand our country's treasures like this?

1. Never seen it

Because the Romans had never seen how silk was made, and they never thought that a worm could spin silk, so they thought silk It is so smooth, so it must be grown on a tree. I must have heard some people say that silk comes from leaves, so they think that silk can be touched on this tree. This is the same as a legend, so there are so many misunderstandings because I have never seen it before.

2. Fantasy

The Romans said that silk can be touched on trees. In fact, this is just a fantasy of theirs, because they have always imagined that Chinese people can live with blue hair and green eyes. They were over 140 years old and had extremely high IQs. This was all their imagination because they had never seen the Chinese at that time, but they knew that the Chinese could design silk because silk was a very expensive product at the time. thing. They couldn't afford it at all, so they imagined this.

3. I find it incredible

Because silk is a very comfortable material and is very good for making clothes and quilts, but the Romans could not make it themselves. So he felt that it was impossible for other countries to have such high technology, so it must be regarded as a natural gift. Then this kind of thing could only appear on trees, so they would think that silk was picked on trees. .

The above summary is why the Romans thought that silk was picked from trees. In fact, there are all three reasons. So just like us, we usually deal with events that we don’t know about. You will also fantasize about what this thing is based on your own ideas, which is actually incorrect.