What are the interesting cold knowledge in history?

There are many interesting things and various topics in history. This time I will talk about a relatively "unpopular" category: the economic life field of past dynasties, and some interesting historical truths.

One: the popular "Made in Han Dynasty"

After the Xiongnu was beaten by the Han Dynasty, the Silk Road running through Europe and Asia was unblocked, but in addition to China silk, another "Made in the Han Dynasty" also sold fire steel weapons of the Han Dynasty.

For example, the Persian Empire, which was sandwiched between the Han Dynasty and Rome, was a country of rest ridiculed by the messengers of the Han Dynasty as a "weak soldier" and a big buyer of cold weapons in the Han Dynasty. The Persian king with the courage of "Hangang" shouted to his old rival, the Romans, "You will soon see the imported China steel, not the gold paid to you." Then the Persian army killed the Romans who ruled Europe with cold weapons from the Han Dynasty.

Where can the defeated Romans take it? I'll buy it if you buy it! But the Romans, who lacked China's blast furnace technology, couldn't make it if they bought it. In the words of Charleston, a Roman writer in the 1 th century, the cold weapons from the Han Dynasty, the conventional batch equipment of these Han soldiers, are the treasures of rising prices in the Roman aristocratic circle. What is a strong man? The tough guy in Han Dynasty is a symbol of strength.

Two: Ma Xu ate "soap" in the Jin Dynasty.

There was no soap in ancient times. What was it for bathing? In the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a precious "bath bean", which was made from pig pancreas after descaling, and was taken in a glass bowl when washing face and hands. The decontamination and cleaning effect is extremely strong, and the price is extremely expensive, which is usually exclusive to the royal family. Don't say that ordinary people don't need it, even many rich and powerful sons are rare on weekdays.

Shi Shuo Xin Yu, for example, records that Wang Dun, the son of Wang's noble family, has just been recruited by Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty as a Xu. In the evening, he washed his hands after going to the toilet in Ma Xu's house, and the servants quickly brought him a bowl of "bath beans" for the royal bath. Wang Dun understood at a glance: Do you want to eat supper after washing your hands at the emotional emperor's house? Immediately grab it and put it in your mouth, and eat a bowl of "bath beans" in minutes. Xu's servant smiled on the spot.

Three: the "fruit barbecue" of the monarch and minister in the Tang Dynasty

Friends who love barbecue often say: there is no problem in this world that barbecue can't solve. Well, the princes and ministers of the Tang Dynasty also believed this sentence, but people often eat "fruit barbecue". The scientific name of the Tang dynasty is "burning pears at the end of the stove", which means baking pears with a stove. Now everyone is cooking. This wonderful way of eating was quite popular in the royal circle of the Tang Dynasty. According to Tang Yulin, every time Emperor Taizong quarreled with his ministers, he would make a stove with a smile and gather them together to warm themselves and eat pears.

For example, the opportunity to counterattack the East Turkistan, the irrigation and water conservancy construction in the Tang Dynasty, and even the battle between Gaochang and the Western Regions. How many major events related to the national luck of the Tang Dynasty, many of which were made by eating "fruit barbecue" by the monarch and his ministers. Eating barbecue in the Tang Dynasty really solved many problems.

Four: "Mosquito-free Street" in Bianjing City

Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, has an unprecedented lively night market, and mosquito bites are also a big worry in summer nights. Don't worry about how hot and humid it is. There was never a mosquito on the Xingjie Ma of Bianjing City in the Northern Song Dynasty. Why is there such a strange scientific phenomenon? According to "Talk on Tiewei Mountain", the whole street in Xingjie Ma is full of pharmacies, and every family is so rich that they are willing to burn incense to repel mosquitoes. Plus Xingjie Ma's business is all night, and the whole street is brightly lit all night. So the smell of mosquito repellent drugs filled the whole street, and mosquitoes naturally hung one after another. Did the commodity economy prosper in Song Dynasty? Even the mosquitoes were scared away.

Five: How powerful is the "mandarin duck monster"

In The Water Margin, Gao Qiu, the page boy, fell in love with Song Huizong instantly with the skill of "Yuanyang Guai" as soon as he caught the ball, and became "Gao Taiwei" from then on. Why can one foot change life? Because in the Northern Song Dynasty football match, it is this "mandarin duck turn around" that is difficult to kick.

According to "Dream in Tokyo", this "mandarin duck turning over" is not like a fool's somersault in TV series. Instead, the outside ankles of the left and right feet should hit the ball continuously, hitting the ball to all parts of the head, shoulders, chest, waist and knees, and dozens of sets of fancy movements before and after, during which the ball must not land. Such technical difficulty, not to mention the current national football team, even a world-class star who fights for the Golden Globe Award every year, can do very little.

But don't think that being a professional player is a good job in the Northern Song Dynasty when football was developed. Losing a big game is not just a matter of being scolded and punished. The losing player will not only be whipped, but also humiliated by the pink face. Compared with modern professional players, it is not generally miserable.

Six: "transvestite" Zhang Juzheng

In the Ming Dynasty, "the seeds of capitalism" were developed, and all kinds of consumption were hot. Yu, a cabinet university student in Wanli, said that vendors selling salt sauce in Beijing often have tens of millions of assets. Go shopping to buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and you may meet local tyrants.

But if you want to say that you are a local tyrant, you must belong to a cautious teacher-Zhang, a great reformer in Wanli. Celebrities pay the most attention to "delicious and dazzling" clothes on weekdays. Expensive clothes are never the same every day, and you have to change several sets every day. Even he eats in the cupboard at noon every day and goes to change clothes after eating for a while. He can change clothes four or five times after dinner, all of which are expensive clothes. With this "clothes-changing freak" taking the lead, there was a lot of extravagance in the late Ming Dynasty.

Seven: "Guangdong Pig" conquered Europe and America.

By the end of next year, Guangzhou has become an important foreign trade port, and European businessmen have come to sweep the goods. A Guangdong "native product" is as popular as silk porcelain: Guangdong domestic pig.

How can domestic pigs, which are very common in rural Guangdong, be so rare for Europeans? China was really an animal husbandry, which was far ahead of Europe at that time. Guangdong domestic pigs, which are easy to fatten and breed, are also rare in Europe, and then they are bought at a high price and brought to the European countryside to breed. In less than a hundred years, Guangdong domestic pigs landed in the British countryside, and the British "breeding pigs" were almost extinct. Yorkshire pigs bred by Guangdong domestic pigs spread all over Europe, and/kloc-swept the United States at the beginning of the 9th century, creating the "wave pig" in the United States. Modern western animal husbandry has since entered a blowout development.

In the words of biologist Darwin, domestic pigs in China are of great value in improving European breeds.

This "extremely high value" has also witnessed the greatness of agricultural workers in China for thousands of years. China's prosperous memories of enriching the people and strengthening the country in the past dynasties laid the foundation for their silence. Only this ancestor, whose names have not been tested, deserves more respect than emperors and generals.