It is rumored that Wusheng Guan Yu is nine feet tall, and a Han ruler was unearthed in Luoyang to reveal his true height
Introduction to the Book of Poetry, Zheng Feng, lamb qiu: "Lamb Qiu leopard ornament, Kong Wu powerful, Peter's son, Bang Zhi Zhi Zhi." "Strength has always been the standard of men, if you want to marry a daughter-in-law and not only strength, he also has to have a handsome appearance and a tall figure, which is the husband that many women dream of, the ancient Pan An, Lanling King, Zou Ji are famous beautiful men, they always have women's screams everywhere they go."
From ancient times to the present, not only human living habits are changing, but their aesthetics are also changing with people's concepts. From the Tang Dynasty's fat beauty to the current pursuit of slenderness, it can be seen that people in the appearance of aesthetic changes, men's 180 is the world's taller tall, but the ancient boys are said to be seven or eight feet tall, according to the current unit conversion, they have a height of more than two meters and three meters, even China's giant Yao Ming is not as tall as them, their height is really so high? What was even more surprising was that Guan Yu was not seven or eight feet, but 9 feet. Fortunately, a newly unearthed Han ruler tells us how tall Guan Yu, who is 9 feet long, is. It's not three meters, but it's not too far off.
Height, placed in any era, is an advantage. Especially in the Games, because the tall people's hands and feet are relatively long, China's women's volleyball team is to take advantage of the height to win the Grand Slam, if they are only one meter six tall, no matter how good your technology is, you can only have more than enough heart and lack of strength. Guan Yu during the Three Kingdoms period was a major general under Liu Bei, and his merits were naturally inseparable from his proud height. However, according to historical records, his height was as high as 9 feet, what is going on?
The unified units in our country began with the Qin Dynasty. Although Qin Shi Huang was a tyrant, his contributions could not be ignored. At that time, after he unified the six countries, he issued a series of policies to facilitate the administration of the country. Unified writing, weights and measures, coins are one of them, if according to the current standards to calculate the height of ancient men, then those eight feet tall men in modern times are all 2.3 meters tall, can be compared with Yao Ming.
Guan Yu's height is nine feet taller, and these descriptions can be obtained from Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in fact, from Luo Guanzhong's description of Guan Yu, we can also see his admiration for Guan Yu. Otherwise, Guan Yu's height would not have been written as nine feet, and his beard was also two feet long, and the Guan Gong who was pasted on the door in later generations was a long beard image. For Luo Guanzhong's writing style and the historical record of Guan Yu, nine feet must not be 3 meters high now, and to understand the conversion method of that year, it must be judged by the cultural relics unearthed at that time.
Then, a one-foot Han ruler unearthed in Luoyang finally revealed the true height of Guan Yu's height of nine feet. Through a period of testing and research, experts identified that this ruler was used by the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and its length can roughly determine the actual height of people at that time, the length of this ruler is about 23.4 centimeters, so people have also calculated that Guan Yu's height is actually about two meters, and Yao Ming is not much different. This number is within the normal range. Guan Yu's achievements must be inseparable from his height advantage, and his height alone can leave a large number of ordinary soldiers.
In fact, the height of the ancient people was a very important factor in the selection of soldiers, and the stronger and taller the person, the more they could be selected into the team. Height is a hard requirement, which can be seen from the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang, because the height of each Terracotta Army is mostly two meters. Speaking of which, the most curious thing is why they are both two meters tall. Could this be the average height of the ancient soldiers? Aren't all of these people giants in modern times?
This is actually because the place where soldiers fight is not fixed, and the environment they are in is sometimes very cold, and such a cold environment will inhibit their physical development. In addition, because the ancient technology did not have modern development, after encountering natural disasters, they simply did not have the ability to overcome difficulties, did not harvest, digging wild vegetables and nibbling on tree bark are common things. Such a thing does not have enough nutrients, and how can people grow taller?
These two factors of height growth come from the environment, and their impact is very limited, and the real reason is that these tall people and the surrounding low-sized peoples intermarry, and the tall child gene is slowly pulled down by these low-altitude people, and its height advantage is gradually weakened.
Now, especially after zero zero, their height has grown rapidly, once exceeding that of the nineties, and the reason for this change is because these zeros have received sufficient nutritional supplements, and the tall genes in the body have been thoroughly displayed. Therefore, if the height of young children has not yet reached the standard, parents can start from their nutritional supplements, perhaps it is the child's picky nutritional imbalance that is always thin and small.
epilogue
Nowadays, the competitiveness of human society is getting bigger and bigger, people's competition is becoming more and more comprehensive, any defect may become the reason for failure, but among these many reasons, self-cultivation is still the most important, and at the same time, do not forget to improve self-cultivation.