1. Qin Dynasty copper hand tongs
If the light theory tools are similar, there are too many excavated cultural relics similar to Wang Mang's caliper. For example, is this bronze hand tongs from the Qin Dynasty basically no different from modern tools? During the qin shi huang period, after the unification of the six kingdoms, decrees were issued on the style and standards of production and measurement tools, which were more than 1500 years ahead of foreign countries. At that time, the craftsmen were almost all hands-on, which was a very common standard tool!
2. Warring States gear
A piece of Warring States gear now in the Luoyang Museum, excavated from the Warring States period granary, should be used to hang high grain. It has been more than 2,000 years ago, and the most remarkable thing is that it is still a ratchet structure. It is a one-way intermittent motion mechanism composed of ratchets and pawls, which is often used in the transposition of the rotary table of modern factory machines, or for the top of the jack. And some of the machinery found by archaeology, there is even a joint application of gears and springs, in the past I thought that the coil spring was invented in Europe, and now I know that our ancestors have long played mechanization...
3. Western Zhou "Differential"
The Luoyang Museum also holds a more anti-heavenly cultural relic, which is jokingly called "differential" by netizens. It is a product of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is between 2800 and 3000 years ago! In fact, it is an accessory on the carriage, the wheel hub of the car, which can be understood as something that fixes the center of the wheel. With high stability and safety, some people joked: if there were two more wheels, it would be really full-time four-wheel drive, and it would be turbocharged!
4. Warring States "refrigerator"
This "ZengHou Yi Jian Jian" should be very familiar to everyone, the early Warring States cultural relics, dating back to more than 2400 years, carved with more than 100 dragon patterns, the shape is extremely exquisite. This is a large wine utensil, which can be called a multi-functional "refrigerator". In the hot summer, ice cubes can be cooled in the Jian Zhong. In the cold winter, this book also has the effect of keeping warm! You know, the world's first modern refrigerator was produced in the United States in 1913, and our ancients have been able to enjoy it thousands of years ago!
5. Western Han Brocade
This last one is not modern technology, but its content is "exciting". This Han Dynasty Shudi brocade arm guard was unearthed in Xinjiang and is woven with eight Han Li characters: Five Stars Out of the East and China! It can be first seen in the "History": "Five stars and heavens, accumulated in the East, Chinese profits". It is an ancient astrology and yin-yang theory, when the five stars appear in the Oriental Well at the same time, it is considered to be an auspicious sign of the rise of the state. Scientists have calculated that the next "five-star gathering" phenomenon will be on September 9, 2040, combined with the above text, then China, will have to make people think...