Subsequently, she persuaded her husband to allow her to rear silkworms on a grove of mulberry trees.
后来，她说服丈夫准许她在桑树丛里养蚕。
With the mulberry silkworm being native to China, the country was the world's sole producer of silk for many hundreds of years.
桑蚕原产于中国，几百年来，中国是世界上唯一的丝绸生产国。
One account of the story goes that as she was taking a walk in her husband's gardens, she discovered that silkworms were responsible for the destruction of several mulberry trees.
