晋东南地区人民很早以前就有栽桑养蚕的习惯,特别是近二十多年来,沁水端氏一带的广大蚕农经过长期的实践,创造出了地埂栽桑养蚕的技术,一九六五年农业部在端氏公社召开了北方八省、市蚕桑生产现场会议,推广了地埂栽桑养蚕的先进经验,从而 People in southeastern region of Shanxi long ago had the habit of planting mulberry sericiculture. Especially in the recent twenty years, the majority of sericulturists in Qinshui Duan area have made long-term practice to create mulberry sericulture techniques. In 1965, the Ministry of Agriculture held a site meeting of sericulture production in eight northern provinces and municipalities in Duan’s Commune to promote the advanced experience of planting mulberry sericulture in the fields.