Parents pick mulberry leaves in the rain. Screenshot of Maisui Video

As silk farming is part of traditional Chinese culture, silkworm rearing has become one of the compulsory courses for Chinese primary school students in recent decades. On April 15, a video of a couple of parents accompanying their children to pick mulberry leaves at night in the rain in the suburbs of Yichang, Central China's Hubei Province, went viral. 

The mother of the child then explained that the child raised a batch of silkworm babies, and these babies have such a big stomach that all mulberry tree leaves in their community were pulled up. That night, the silkworm babies were starving, and the child was worried for them: With no other choice, the parents decided to drive to the suburbs and finally found a small mulberry tree in the rain. "We did it to help our child maintain his sense of integrity and we had fun in the process," the mother said.

The child's mother recorded her search for mulberry trees and posted the video online. Many netizens said this experience resonates with their own childhood's. 

"They are not only fostering the moral integrity of their child, but also setting an example, thus teaching the child about responsibility, which is the reason why silkworm rearing has become a compulsory course for Chinese primary school students," one netizen said.