布从哪里来?一位诗人回答道:“要问布从哪里来,请问那朵花——它似花又非花,洁白无瑕(xiá)。”它就是棉(mián)花。我们平常所说的棉花其实并不是花,而是锦葵(jin kuí)科植物的种子维(xiāo wéi)。一朵朵的棉花经过脱籽、梳(shū)棉、纺纱(fǎng shā)后,成了一团团的棉纱。然后,棉纱被织成了棉布,做成了衣服等东西。 Where does the cloth come from? A poet replied: “To ask where it came from, what is that flower - it is a flower without flower, white and flawless.” "It is a flower of cotton. The cotton we usually refer to is not the flower, but the seed of the jin kuí plant (xiāo wéi). After a blossoming of cotton seed, comb (shū) cotton, spinning, became a round of cotton yarn. Then, the cotton yarn was woven into cotton cloth, made of clothes and other things.