In daily life, we always have some inconspicuous but indispensable good things at hand, such as ear handles, toothpicks and small awls, which we bring a lot of convenience, but we don't know who invented them. However, in the ancient city of Luguo in Qufu, Shandong, experts also found a gadget, and after research, people felt crying and laughing... What exactly is it? If you are also curious, the following Xiaobian will reveal the secret to you.
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Located near Kuiquan Road in Qufu, Shandong, the ancient city of Luguo is an ancient city site covering an area of about 10 square kilometers, which according to experts have examined as the capital of the Lu State during the Zhou Dynasty, with a long history of more than 3,000 years. According to the records, in the 1940s, experts first discovered the ruins of the ancient city of Luguo, but because the excavation conditions were not available at that time, the ruins of the ancient city of Luguo were not known until 1958, and the site was cleaned up and excavated in the following years. As of 2015, experts have cleared out the walls, outer and inner cities of the ruins of the ancient city of Luguo, excavated more than 200 tombs, and unearthed thousands of precious burial items, such as bronzes, pottery koshiki, jade and tiles, etc., especially the most exquisite jade.
Through the study of the dating of the tombs of the ancient city of Luguo, experts found that the site dates from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, and there was no cultural fault here for more than 1,000 years, which also shows that the ancient city of Luguo was prosperous at that time. It is worth mentioning that when experts cleaned up a Warring States period tomb, they found an ivory product near the remains of the owner of the tomb, but they have all been broken into a small section, a total of nine sections, the longest of which is about 16.2 cm long, as thick as a small thumb, but it is interesting that one end of this section is a person's hand, showing a half-grip state. Experts were also puzzled by this, and later spliced these broken parts together, with a length of about 33.5 centimeters, and had never found anything similar before.
The tail of this small thing is also carved with the head of the beast, which looks very exquisite, and it is associated with a half-fisted hand at one end, so experts speculate that this is a ivory carving artwork, perhaps an ornament placed in the home to enhance the owner's life interest. However, later when this small object was exhibited in the museum, some folklorists discovered its mystery and said that it was not a work of art at all, nor was it an ornament, but a practical instrument.
Folklorists say that it is now a commonly used tickling tool in many rural areas - tickling, but it also has a more interesting name called "do not ask for people", that is, if the back is itchy, you must ask for help, and you can just scratch it yourself. In the "New Book of Tang Dynasty" Li Bi biography recorded: "taste the pine branch to hide the back, the name is 'Yanghe'", here "Yanghe" is a simple itch made of pine branches, so people have always believed that itching was invented by Li Bi, and also called him "scratching the grandfather". Nowadays, the tickle is found in the Warring States Tomb, which overturns the thesis that Li Bi invented the tickle in the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately, who invented the tickle has also become a mystery.
Archaeologists believe that the itch and tick unearthed from the Warring States Tomb is exquisitely made, so it is certain that the tick will never appear in the Warring States period, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period before the Warring States Period, the Western Zhou Period, or the Xia Shang Period, or even the primitive social period, there may be itch tickles. Archaeologists said that perhaps the earliest tickle is the ancients casually broke a branch from the tree, and later someone drew inspiration from it, so they made a variety of different tickles, but tickles are always difficult to climb the elegant thing, so there have been few records of tickling history.
In the Republic of China's "Qing Barnyard Banknotes", it is recorded: "Ruyi, the name of the utensil... The end of the handle is finger-shaped to show that the hand is not there, and the scratch can be as desired." This shows that during the Qing Dynasty, people used ruyi as an itch, but it was limited to the emperor, or the dignitaries, after all, ruyi represented an auspicious thing, how dare ordinary people use it to scratch the itch? It is worth mentioning that in the Qing Dynasty, there was also a substitute for tickling, that is, the ring ruler of the old gentleman of the private school, which can be used to punish students, but also to respond to emergencies when the back is itchy, and it is also a multi-purpose thing, so there is no need to use itching.
We found the Warring States period itch, although it is also defined by experts as "the earliest", in fact we all know that it is not the earliest, because the earliest tickle must be some kind of substitute for branches, stone chips, etc., and even if these substitutes are discovered by experts, they will not think of this as the "grandfather" of itching at the first time. In short, the research experts who are tickling will continue to do, and it is also their unshirkable job to unravel the mystery of history for us.
Resources:
"The History and Culture of the Lu Kingdom" by Yang Chaoming, Wang Qing, Publisher: Cultural Relics Publishing House
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Liu Lijiang's