Zhou Dehua — Municipal Representative Inheritor of the Sericulture & Silk Customs Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Zhou Dehua has long collected and studied sericulture customs and silk-culture materials, and recently donated decades of manuscripts and archival material — spanning the 1930s to the modern era — to the China Silk Archives.
His archival work documents how local irrigation, mulberry cultivation practices, and household/community sericulture customs historically formed the practical basis of silkworm rearing success; these local records are therefore key to understanding why fibres produced in different places follow different production practices and textile outcomes.
From these materials we can reasonably present the narrative that local ecology and long-established husbandry practices influence cocoon development and reeling performance — which is to say: good site management (water, mulberry care) and mature rearing practices help stabilize cocoon quality and reeling behavior.
Archives compiled by Zhou Dehua indicate that local water, cultivation and sericulture customs profoundly shape cocoon development and reeling performance. That is why EVERSILK’s source-control and sericulture standards matter for filament quality.
