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Silkworm farmers embrace harvest season of "golden cocoons" in Tongxiang, E China
By Xinhua Published: Jun 01, 2021 07:58 AM
Staff arrange purchased golden cocoons at a sericulture cooperative in Jiansheng Village of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province, May 26, 2021. Tongxiang, east China's Zhejiang Province, is famous for its over 4,000 years' history of sericulture. Its silkworm breeding and mulberry planting tradition has been listed by the State Council as the national intangible cultural heritage. A new variety of silkworm called golden cocoon is pale gold in color.(Photo: Xinhua)

Staff arrange purchased "golden cocoons" at a sericulture cooperative in Jiansheng Village of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province, May 26, 2021. Tongxiang, east China's Zhejiang Province, is famous for its over 4,000 years' history of sericulture. Its silkworm breeding and mulberry planting tradition has been listed by the State Council as the national intangible cultural heritage. A new variety of silkworm called "golden cocoon" is pale gold in color.(Photo: Xinhua)


 
Photo taken on May 26, 2021 shows purchased golden cocoons at a sericulture cooperative in Jiansheng Village of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province. Tongxiang, east China's Zhejiang Province, is famous for its over 4,000 years' history of sericulture. Its silkworm breeding and mulberry planting tradition has been listed by the State Council as the national intangible cultural heritage. A new variety of silkworm called golden cocoon is pale gold in color.(Photo: Xinhua)

Photo taken on May 26, 2021 shows purchased "golden cocoons" at a sericulture cooperative in Jiansheng Village of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province. Tongxiang, east China's Zhejiang Province, is famous for its over 4,000 years' history of sericulture. Its silkworm breeding and mulberry planting tradition has been listed by the State Council as the national intangible cultural heritage. A new variety of silkworm called "golden cocoon" is pale gold in color.(Photo: Xinhua)


 
Staff arrange purchased golden cocoons at a sericulture cooperative in Jiansheng Village of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province, May 26, 2021. Tongxiang, east China's Zhejiang Province, is famous for its over 4,000 years' history of sericulture. Its silkworm breeding and mulberry planting tradition has been listed by the State Council as the national intangible cultural heritage. A new variety of silkworm called golden cocoon is pale gold in color.(Photo: Xinhua)

Staff arrange purchased "golden cocoons" at a sericulture cooperative in Jiansheng Village of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province, May 26, 2021. Tongxiang, east China's Zhejiang Province, is famous for its over 4,000 years' history of sericulture. Its silkworm breeding and mulberry planting tradition has been listed by the State Council as the national intangible cultural heritage. A new variety of silkworm called "golden cocoon" is pale gold in color.(Photo: Xinhua)


 
A villager harvests gloden cocoons at his silkworm breeding farm in Jiansheng Village of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province on May 25, 2021. Tongxiang, east China's Zhejiang Province, is famous for its over 4,000 years' history of sericulture. Its silkworm breeding and mulberry planting tradition has been listed by the State Council as the national intangible cultural heritage. A new variety of silkworm called golden cocoon is pale gold in color.(Photo: Xinhua)

A villager harvests "gloden cocoons" at his silkworm breeding farm in Jiansheng Village of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province on May 25, 2021. Tongxiang, east China's Zhejiang Province, is famous for its over 4,000 years' history of sericulture. Its silkworm breeding and mulberry planting tradition has been listed by the State Council as the national intangible cultural heritage. A new variety of silkworm called "golden cocoon" is pale gold in color.(Photo: Xinhua)