Today, We took a boat ride down the Grand Canal. This canal was artificially created during ancient time. It starts from Hangzhou and ends at Beijing. We learn that during the olden days, a lot of people lived besides the canal and all of them used the water from the canal. However, nowadays only old folks are left behind, as the young people prefers to stay in apartments. One possible reason is because the houses near the canal are very small, about 15 to 30 meter square. In addition, the water in the canal smells foul in Summer.
Next, we visited the silk factory. After the briefing on the production of silk, we got to know how silk is being made. And we also know how to differentiate between the real and fake silk. Do you know that silk worms need 42 days to grow? By the way, we saw how they made silk quilts too!
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