一、我国古代植棉业的发展我国植棉的历史相当悠久。在我国古书里很早就有关于边疆地区植棉的纪载,我国最早的地理名著《禹贡》记载“岛夷卉服厥筐织贝”这就说明早在汉代以前被称为“岛夷”的海南岛黎族人民,已经栽种了棉花,并精于印染。据《齐民要术》摘引撰于三世纪下叶的张勃《吴录》载;“交趾定安县有木绵,树高大,实如酒杯,口有绵,如蚕之绵也,又可作布,名曰白谍。”可见云南省西南部的劳动人民在三世纪以前就已种植棉花 First, the development of China’s ancient cotton plant China’s cotton has a long history. In ancient China there was a long history of planting cotton in frontier areas. The earliest geographer in our country, Yugong, recorded that “the island is farmed with flowers and garments”. This shows that as early as the Han Dynasty, it was known as “ ”Hainan Island Li people, has planted cotton, and good at printing and dyeing. According to “Qi Min Yao Shu” cited in the third century, the next leaf Zhang Bo “Wu Lu” set out; “Cedar Dingan County has wooden cotton, tall trees, like a glass, mouth with cotton, silkworm cotton, but also For the cloth, nickname White spy. ”Visible Yunnan province southwestern working people in the third century before planting cotton