蚕谚,来自群众,源于实践,并经历了长期的检验、筛选、完善而流传。它是蚕业科学技术宝库中的一份财富。它能反映当地的蚕桑生产经验,具有鲜明的地方性,往往为地方志所记载,为“农业考古”众多内容之一。蚕谚,语言精练、形象生动、比喻巧妙、押韵顺口、易懂易记,便于传播和推广,是蚕农喜见乐闻的一种“科普”方法。但是有的蚕桑谚语如“大早三年,桑条通天”,当今就很难理解。而运用历史辩证的方法,科学地对待蚕谚,就能使蚕谚在传统蚕业向现代蚕业转化中发挥“古为今用”的积极作用。由于蚕谚是在一定的历史时期和地域环境中形成的,而且它只能用一、二句短话来表达 Silkworms, from the masses, come from practice and have undergone long-term tests, screening, perfection and circulation. It is a treasure of science and technology in sericulture. It can reflect local sericulture production experience, with distinct local, often recorded in local history, as one of the “agricultural archeology” many. The saying of silkworms, concise language, vivid images, ingenious metaphors, rhyming and easygoing, easy to understand and easy to remember, easy to spread and popularize, is a kind of “science popularization” method of silkworms. However, some sericulture proverbs such as “big three years old, mulberry stripe,” it is difficult to understand today. However, using the dialectical method of history and treating silkworm proverbs scientifically, we can make the silkworm proverb play an active role in transforming the traditional sericulture into modern sericulture. Because silkworms are formed in a certain historical period and geographical environment, and it can only be expressed in one or two short sentences