In "The Golden Peach of Samarkand", Chinese and Western "similar" (i) diamond

The Chinese and Western "Similarities" in The Golden Peach of Samarkand (I)

　　The Golden Peach of Samarkand, written by Xue Aihua, a foreigner. These foreigners study Chinese history, that is, they have a mentality, China's achievements are influenced by foreign West, and the things written out embody this kind of thinking everywhere, and all the stories that mention "ancient Egypt", "ancient Greece", "ancient Rome" or "Christianity" or "Christianity" are similar to China, the author must be trying to say that the above pseudo-historical pseudo-civilization has influenced China, but in fact, China has influenced the West, but this just happens to be used as a counter-evidence, to facilitate the collation of how similar are China's stories and the West? Or maybe the Chinese XX and the Western meaning are exactly the opposite, and it is also evidence, such as: the Chinese dragon and the Western dragon have the opposite meaning, and the meaning of the black cat (black cat) and the bat is also the same.

　　At present, we have found an example of the claim that the antelope horn can crush the diamond of the Funan Kingdom, and the Chinese ones are as follows:

　　In the Tang Zhen Temple, there are Brahmin monks who have buddha teeth. There is nothing strong before the blow. Fu Yi (Fang Bedroom), smelling it, said his son: "Not a Buddha's tooth." I have heard that the diamond is strong, the object is invincible, only the horn of the antelope is broken, and Ru can try it." The monks are very strict, stubborn, and long-lasting. Knock out the horns and crush them. (The viewer is stopped.) It is used by those who are now using pearls and jade. ）

　　[See "National History" included in "Book Integration".] (There appears to be an error in the original text of this paragraph, and the translator can only translate it for the time being.) Fragments from this book are also included in Han Fenlou's Shuo Gao, volume 67, but this is not the point quoted in this book. The Author of the National History is unknown, but it is likely to have been written in the late Tang or early Song dynasties. According to the translation, the "Fu Yi" article of the Taiping Guangji volume 197 quotes the "Different Compilations of the History of the State" in more detail than the English translation, and the words in parentheses are supplemented by the translator according to the Taiping Guangji. Volume 188 of the General Dictionary, "Funanguo", says: "Out of gold and steel, jade can be carved, resembling purple quartz, and it is born on the stone of the water of Baizhang, such as stalactites, people have no water to take it, but the sun rises, with the hammer and not hurt, the iron is self-damaged, and the horn is buckled, and the ice is frozen." The "General Commentary" "Hu Note" quotes this article, and "羖羊" is used as "antelope", which is attached for reference.

Supplement: There is a similar record in the Sui and Tang Jia Dialects. 】

　　In the West, Pliny of "Ancient Rome":

　　The strength of the diamond's resistance can cause the hammer to split in two, and even the anvil itself must be replaced. Diamonds are indestructible, and two of nature's fiercest forms of violence, iron and fire, can do nothing about it, but ram's blood can destroy it. But diamonds must be soaked in fresh blood, and even then they need to be hammered.

　　- Pliny the Elder

　　Pliny the Elder (23–79), roman writer; Only one encyclopedic "Naturalist" has been handed down, which is the sum of the knowledge of the natural sciences at that time."

　　According to Pliny's account, medieval poetry, the blood of the ram, became a symbol of the blood of Christ.

Therefore, the relationship between Buddhism and The Religion of Jerusalem, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the so-called translated books related to the "Book of The Book of Jerusalem" were "translated" or "created", and at that time, the Religion of The Lords vigorously attacked Buddhism, and this is also the case now. Who exactly copied whom? Obviously! This origin must be vigorously denied! 】

　　Diamond is said to have been introduced to the mainland from India, and its name comes from the "scriptures" of Indian Buddhism. During the Jin Dynasty in 260 AD, it is said that a very hard stone was introduced from India from the mainland, which was even able to cut jade, which was called the hard object at the head of all things at that time.

But what is the most appropriate name for it? The disciples of Shakyamuni, the founder of Indian Buddhism, wrote many sutras in Sanskrit (a language of India) for their followers to recite, and the scriptures refer to the hardest weapons, the hardest and most powerful people, "Bo Yue Luo." Later translated into Chinese, it was "diamond", which means the hardest in gold.

　　In this way, people called this kind of stone that came from India "diamond". The above is the Buddhist explanation.

Why do people still call it a diamond diamond?

When Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty recorded diamond in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", he said that it could not only cut hard objects, but also punch holes in jade and porcelain, so Li Shizhen called diamond "diamond". He said in the "Notes on Materia Medica": "(Diamond) its sand can be drilled jade to supplement porcelain, which is called diamond."

　　Therefore, China has a saying, "Don't do porcelain work without diamonds"! This is the ancient curium porcelain artists in order to more exquisitely improve the porcelain drilling, gold inlay, bonding and other work, specially made a stick-shaped tool, because there is a very hard diamond on the top so called diamond.

However, the art of curium porcelain is first known to have appeared in the Song Dynasty's "Qingming Upper River Map", which has a description of the work of curium smiths.

Figure The curium smith of the Song Dynasty's "Qingming Upper River Map" makes a living map

The Italian missionary Matteo Ricci described curium porcelain in the "Notes on Chinese Observations", "Curium repair porcelain can also withstand the temperature of hot food without cracking, if broken, and then fuse with copper wire, holding soup water without leaking", but the copper wire fusion in the book should be inaccurate translation, curium porcelain is connected with curium broken porcelain, rather than "fused".

In fact, these also originate from earlier sources, and are related to the drilling of jade, which has been illustrated by the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" that "its sand can drill jade to supplement porcelain, so it is called a diamond".

There are two kinds of ancient drilling tools, pull drills and dance drills, both of which are diamonds embedded in the head of the drill pipe, and the diamond is driven by the rotation of the drill pipe to punch holes in the hard porcelain.

Pull drill is composed of grips, drill handles, drill pipes and drawstring and other components, when used, the left hand holds the grip, the right hand pulls the tie rod, through the friction between the tie rope and the tie rod, with the tie rod back and forth to drive the head of the drill bit to play the role of drilling.

Dance drill is a round drill pipe on the set of a pressure rod, a thin rope to the two ends of the pressure rod and the top of the drill pipe connected, in use, turn the drill pipe, the thin rope will be wrapped around the drill pipe, and then press down on the rod, the thin rope will drive the round drill pipe rotation, complete the hole.

The earliest curium porcelain used diamond head is inlaid with diamond particles, a well-made diamond, curium porcelain artists can use a lifetime, due to the past technology is not developed to make a diamond diamond takes one to two years.

Therefore, this thing should be found and used by china, diamond into diamond, which is also developed by Chinese jade technology.

　　Diamond diamond: [Diamond diamond] shaped like a mouse, dung color blue and black, born in the western region of the water bottom stone, the native people have no water to find it, with it engraved, no solid, only the antelope horn hits it and shatters - (night sailing ship).

　　This statement is similar to the above "antelope horn can break the diamond of the Funan Kingdom", so where did Pliny of "Ancient Rome" get this story? Moreover, its story content is similar to that of China, except that "antelope horn" is replaced by "ram's blood" crushed diamond! Ram's blood also became a symbol of christ's shed blood.

　　After the West came into contact with China from the Ming Dynasty, there are a large number of traces of the influence of Chinese Confucianism and Taoism in the Yejing, in order to publicize the Yajing, it has vigorously attacked Confucianism, scornfully called Confucianism "cynicism", and also denigrated a series of cultural behaviors such as Chinese Taoism and ancestor worship as "superstition", and then declared that the six thousand years of history of the West, there are "ancient Egypt", "ancient Greece" and "ancient Rome" and other countries with a long history, which are more powerful than China, in order to make Chinese believe in Christianity, and its means are similar to Buddhism, because Buddhism was introduced to China. As a result, many Chinese cultures have also been "Buddhistized" and "Indianized"!

　　It's so uncomfortable! Isn't western religious behavior superstition?! It is ridiculous that China's native ancestor worship, Taoism, and so on have lost their status today and have been attacked as "superstitions"! 】