The Zodiac, also known as the genus phase, is a twelve species of animals that match The Twelve Branches of China, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, and pigs. The origin of the Zodiac is related to animal worship. According to Qin Jian excavated from Hubei Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land and Gansu Tianshui FangmaTan, there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period. The earliest document that records the same zodiac sign as in modern times is Wang Chong's "On Balance" of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The tiger ranks third in the zodiac and dominates the genus "Yin" in the twelve places. Historically, there are many celebrities who belong to the zodiac tiger, such as zhang heng, an astronomer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, and famous painters Tang Bohu and Wen Zhengming. What are some interesting stories about the year or year after they were born?
Zhang heng
Zhang Heng: Born in 78 AD, the year after he was born
Memorabilia: "White Tiger Tongyi" was released
Zhang Heng (78–139), courtesy name Pingzi, was born in the third year of the founding of Emperor Zhang of Han, in the lunar year of Pengyin, and belonged to the Tiger. He was an outstanding astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, and writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Compared with Western countries, Zhang Heng invented the ground motion instrument more than 1700 years earlier, which plays a pivotal role in the study of Chinese astronomy and geography.
In the fourth year of the founding of Emperor Zhang of Han (79 years), the imperial court convened famous Confucians from all over the world to discuss the similarities and differences of the Five Classics at the White Tiger Temple in Luoyang, which is the famous White Tiger Temple Conference in history. At that time, the White Tiger Temple was the place where the imperial court repaired Confucianism. Ban Gu and others summarized them according to the results of the meeting and wrote four volumes of "White Tiger Tongyi". The White Tiger Tongyi inherits the mysterious idealistic ideas of modern literature and classics after Dong Zhongshu. Based on the mystified yin and yang and the five behaviors, it explains the phenomena of nature, society, ethics, life and daily life, and has a certain impact on Theory of Human Nature of Song Ming.com.
Li Shizhen
Li Shizhen: Born in 1518
Timeline of the same year: The construction of the first fire truck
Li Shizhen (3 July 1518 – 1593), a member of the Hu (虎) and Dongbi character, in his later years called himself a native of The Lake, Hubei Province (present-day Puzhou Town, Puchun County, Hubei Province), and a famous medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Shizhen was born into a family of doctors and has loved medicine since childhood. At the age of 23, he studied medicine with his father, and his medical name became increasingly popular. In the process of practicing medicine for decades and reading classical medical books, Li Shizhen found that there were many errors in ancient Materia Medica and decided to re-compile a Materia Medica book. From the thirty-first year of Jiajing (1552) to the sixth year of the Wanli Calendar (1578), Li Shizhen lasted 27 years, changed his manuscript three times, and finally became the 52 volumes of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", nearly 1.9 million words, using the "Outline with the Outline" to write the style, so it is named "Outline". Volumes 5-52 are monographs, receiving 1892 kinds of drugs, with 1109 kinds of figures.
Historically, few events occurred in 1518, in which the world's first recorded fire engine was built in Augsburg, Germany, in that year. The car was built by Anteni Brattner, a craftsman who made metal crafts. Little is known about the details of the fire truck. According to the book "History of craftsmanship in Augsburg", this fire truck is a large water pump operated by levers on the car and pulled by horses.
Tang Yin
Tang Bohu: Born in 1470 AD
Memorabilia of the same year: Friend Wen Zhengming was born
Tang Yin (6 March 1470 – 7 January 1524), courtesy name Bohu , Small Character Zi Wei , Number Liu Ru Ju Shi , a native of Wu County , Suzhou Prefecture ( present-day Suzhou , Jiangsu Province ) , was a famous painter, calligrapher and poet of the Ming Dynasty. Tang Yin's name Yin is related to Yin Nian, and it is said that he was born in Yin Nian Yin Yue Yin Ri Yin, but the real situation is that he was only born in Yin Nian, so his name is Tang Yin.
In the history of painting, Tang Bohu, Together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Qiu Ying and others, he was collectively known as the "Four Houses of Ming". Tang Bohu's life was bumpy, but it did not affect literary achievements in the slightest, not only poetry and painting, but also musical rhythms. Its rhythm is mostly in the form of folk songs. There are many film and television dramas depicting Tang Bohu, the most famous of which is Zhou Xingchi's "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang". However, Tang Yin never had any Autumn Fragrance in his life, and even because of his reputation as "the first talented man in Jiangnan", his third wife", "Nine Niang", was considered to be his ninth wife. Shen Jiuniang understood Tang Yin's talent and fully supported his life. When there was a flood in Suzhou, Tang Yin's paintings were unsalable, and the family was so sleepy that even the chai rice did not fall, Shen Jiuniang worked hard, and finally fell ill and died suddenly.
In 1470, when Tang Yin was born, another talent was also born, he was Tang Bohu's good friend Wen Zhengming. The personalities of the two are very different. Tang Bohu was very popular and talented; Wen Zhengming was honest and conscientious. Talking about Tang Yin, Wen Zhengming said in "Jian Zi Wei": "Sitting on the order to put people suspicious of Ruan's origin, it is not appropriate for the scribe To look at Liu Fork. In Wen Zhengming's view, Tang Yin was a crazy and talented figure like Wei Jin Ruan and Tang Dynasty Liu Cha. Compared with Tang Yin, Wen Zhengming is like a "stupid child", but he follows his own rhythm and walks every step steadily, and eventually becomes an all-rounder of the "four absolutes" who are exquisite in poetry and calligraphy, and has achieved admirable artistic achievements.
In 1523, Tang Yin completed a rich and undulating life, while the 54-year-old Wen Zhengming was still making small strides and still did not win the first place. On February 20, 1559, the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing (1559), Wen Zhengming, who was 90 years old, wrote an epitaph for Yushi Yanjie's mother. Halfway through writing, he put down his pen, sat upright, and walked his life. At this time, his friend Tang Bohu, who was born in the same year as him, had been dead for 36 years.
(Cover news reporter Zhou Qin)