The origin of faucets The faucets in Yuan Dynasty were similar to those in modern times, and the teapot was born out of cicada heads.

Faucets are the most common in modern times. It can be said that you can't use water without a faucet.

It's just that the name faucet is incredible. In fact, it is related to legends, idioms and historical events. What is even more surprising is that according to archaeological findings, the faucets in the Yuan Dynasty were actually similar to those in modern times. What the hell is going on? Listen to the explanation.

According to legend, the dragon is a lewd thing. According to the present statement, it is a proper love rat, but how can we assume that the dragon is Gao Fushuai, and people have the resources? To put it bluntly, the dragons didn't want to come, but threw themselves at each other.

What cattle, horses, people say that killing chickens with horses is awesome, but it's actually good, even killing chickens with dragons, and I find chickens very miserable.

When you meet a cow, it is a unicorn, and a horse is a dragon. The chicken is jiaozi. It can be said that there is nothing that dragons can't do. Pigs are better. After all, there is an ancient saying that pigs are dragons and pigs can be replaced by dragons.

As for people, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang didn't mean that my mother was by the river, and then a dragon fell on her, and Liu Bang came into being, so it was called Chi Di Zi.

No, the dragon and the fish gave birth to the cicada's head in passion. It is said that cicada's head looks most like a dragon, but its body doesn't!

The decapitation was due to extreme self-confidence. Think about it, too. It's a dragon head fish. Can you be confident? So it often goes to the shore. When it meets a person, it asks, "Am I a dragon?"

If you answer that it is a dragon! It's happy! But once the answer is no! Unlike dragons!

Then Guo was very angry! It will keep spitting water! Good spray! I spray! I spray! The water seems to be free.

So those sprayers on the internet really should pay tribute to the stinger! Perhaps Bartomeu, the newly resigned Barcelona President, hired the Water Army, Messi and Pique. But he didn't pay homage to the ancestors of Spray Zi, so he was exposed and investigated by the police.

Because taro spits water well, many ancient buildings are decorated with taro to drain water.

Now it is called the fire brigade, and in ancient times it was called the hose bureau. When there is fire, it is called "running water". We had to ask the water pipe team to take out the water pipe truck and let people press it to let the faucet on the water pipe truck spray water! The range can reach 20 to 30 meters.

Generally speaking, it takes four people to operate.

The hose truck has a bucket. There is water in the bucket and an artificial water pump. Two people are pumping water under pressure, and two people are spraying water on the fire with water pipes.

The water brought by the water bearer nearby keeps pouring into the bucket, and the two people keep pushing and pulling up and down to ensure that the water keeps spraying out.

Of course, if the hose is large, the number of people pushing up and down will increase to four. Two more hose sprayers, six people working together.

Guangxi Da 'an Fire Station is the oldest preserved fire station in China. If you want to watch the fire fighting in ancient times, especially in the Qing Dynasty, you can still see it in Da 'an, and even CCTV has broadcast it.

Generally speaking, the hoses in the north are more exquisite than those in the south, and have more water capacity. Because there is less water in the north, it is necessary to store more water.

There is much water in the south, so you can take water nearby. Relatively speaking, due to the distance of water sources, there are fewer water carriers in the south than in the north.

Water is sprayed from the faucet of the hose. In the late Qianlong period, Emperor Qianlong built a luxurious West Garden in the east of Yuanmingyuan. Emperor Qianlong was curious about the fountains in the west, and planned to build a fountain in his palace, but he didn't want to imitate the fountains in the west.

So Lang Shining, a European painter, designed the bronze animal head of the Chinese zodiac, put it in the center of the garden, and sprayed water in turn every two hours. This is the prototype of China faucet.

It's a national shame that the bronze animal heads of the zodiac are living overseas! A disgraceful history in the late Qing Dynasty.

Later, where there was a water outlet, there was a faucet, that is, decapitation, which was also based on the legendary allusion of spraying water. Carving cockroaches is full of momentum!

At first, in the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty put Guo's figure in the palace to take care of the transverse ridge of the building. It likes to climb high and overlook, so it is regarded as an ornament for praying for rain and avoiding fire among the people.

Until the Qianlong period, all drainage pipes were carved into the shape of faucets, also known as decapitation.

When it rains, thousands of dragons spit. This scene is spectacular!

Later, the name of the faucet on the waterspout used by the waterspout bureau was also consistent with the palace.

People call the water outlet a faucet. Therefore, in the early days of China, the faucet was a long pole with a lead, which looked like a dragon, so it was normal to call it a faucet.

In the past, most beheadings were carved on utensils. If they were from the Western Zhou Dynasty, they would shout, "Go! Drink a beheading! "

Don't be dumbfounded! This is really buying you a drink!

Because in the late Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty, there was a device for holding water to adjust the flavor of wine, and the concentration of wine was adjusted by mixing water with wine.

Therefore, as long as the nobles like drinking, they will bring drinking utensils with them in the tomb. This is how a cicada's head was unearthed, from Yin Ruins to Zhou Tombs and then to Warring States Tombs.

What does the cicada head look like in the picture above? Yes! Just like a teapot! The ancestor of teapot is the head of cicada.

Therefore, a literate alcoholic is often advised to give up drinking! Then he shouted, "Do you know that hip flask is the ancestor of teapot?"! How can there be a teapot without the birth of a hip flask? "

This is history. The teapot is the offspring of a cicada's head, from which it was born. Without these wine-mixing devices, there would be no later teapot.

As for the archaeological discovery of faucets in Yuan Dynasty, it is embarrassing to say that Turkey is the source of faucets. It is said that the earliest faucet in the world came from Turkey, but the faucet in the Yuan Dynasty may be able to break all this.

As can be seen, the dripping water of the Yuan Dynasty copper pot collected by Guangzhou Museum is very similar to the modern faucet, as shown in the following figure:

It's just that people have faucets, so modern faucets naturally lack faucets.

If the middle of the last supporting part is thinner, it will be almost the same as the modern shape.

It was cast in A.D. 13 16, which was a three-year extension of the Yuan Dynasty.

16th century, that is, 200 years after the appearance of the copper pot dripping faucet in Yuan Dynasty, there was an animal's head faucet made of stone embedded in the wall of the water supply spring in Istanbul, Turkey. This is called the earliest faucet in the world.

But if it appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, it would be earlier and more advanced than Turkey.

Most people refer to faucets as water hoses from the Water Conservancy Bureau in Ming and Qing Dynasties, or as "faucets" for building drainage pipes after drying. In fact, all this is wrong! The name of the faucet is more than a thousand years earlier!

I think many people have heard of the idiom Ye Gong Long Hao. In fact, the word faucet comes from Ye Gong!

, surnamed Mi, Shen, with a high name, was the son of Shen Yinxu, a strategist and politician of Chu State in the late Spring and Autumn Period.

He once put down the rebellion of Bai Gong and served as the Prime Minister of Chu. His fief was in Ye Yi (now the south old city of Ye County, Henan Province), which was called Ye Gong in history.

Ye Gong organized the people of Ye Yi to build large-scale water conservancy projects on the east and west sides to prevent floods in the east and store water in the west. He painted water conservancy construction on his own walls, beams, and clothes, and painted dragons on the outlet of each canal. In order to have good weather, he called it "faucet".

It is he who paints dragons everywhere, so people say that Ye Gong is good at painting dragons.

So someone said to Ye Gong, "The dragon you drew is not like it! No clouds! "

Ye Gong replied, "I painted dragons to draw water. When there is drought and water shortage, let the dragon open his mouth and spit. If there is too much waterlogging, let them shut up and stop spitting! " In this way, farmland and crops can be irrigated. "

Ye Gong, a man born around 550 BC, would have realized his wish if he had known that the faucet could be made in two thousand years! And he also created a new word at this time-faucet! This is also the origin of the faucet.

The South Korean Prime Minister made up a fable in Shen Zi: "Ye Gong loves dragons like crazy, and dragons are painted on walls, embroidered on clothes and carved on pillars. One day, the real dragon descended from the sky and came to Ye Gong's house. Ye Gong turned and ran in fear.

In the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang, a famous writer in the Western Han Dynasty, wrote the story of "Ye Gong saw the dragon and left" in his new preface "Miscellaneous Matters", which became the source of the saying that Ye Gong was good at dragons.

The idiom "Ye Gong Long Hao" also spread.

As the ancestor of Ye, the word "dragon head" he created has been used by later generations to this day.