The Similarity between China and the West in The Golden Peach of Samarkand (II)
Fire raccoon cloth that is not afraid of fire (fire rat hair)
Huan cloth, also the ancient name of asbestos cloth, refers to cloth woven from asbestos fibers. Because of its non-combustible nature and its ability to remove dirt in fire, it is often called "fire raccoon cloth" or "fire alkane cloth" in early Chinese history books.
What is Asbestos? Asbestos, also known as stone wool, is a natural fibrous non-metallic mineral with a high degree of fire resistance, electrical insulation and thermal insulation, which is of course an important fireproof, insulation and insulation material in industrial production.
Asbestos mines may not be seen by many people, but the products made from it can be found everywhere, as small as people's daily lives. In the 1960s and 1970s, urban residents still used honeycomb coal in their lives, and the damper door of the honeycomb coal stove at that time was very large, and when the stove needed to be closed, the twelve holes of the honeycomb coal had to be plugged, and the plug was made of asbestos. In the early days, a kind of disabled vendor was common in the streets and alleys, selling tung oil lime and honeycomb coal. This is the most common asbestos product ever made.
In addition, the asbestos tiles, asbestos bricks, asbestos cloth, asbestos rope, etc. used for heat insulation and fire prevention are not difficult to see, the firefighter's fireproof clothing is made of asbestos, if in the industrial and mining areas, the pipeline that transports the steam, the material for external insulation is also made of asbestos... Asbestos products are everywhere from life to industrial production.
Fireproof clothing is a kind of clothing that is not afraid of fire in legend (including the records in the main history), and if the clothes are stained with stains and then put in the fire and burned, it will be as clean and beautiful as ordinary clothes washed in water. It is now generally believed to be made of raccoon cloth.
The idea that "raccoon cloth" can be put into the fire to remove dirt has been around for a long time.
The ancient mainland book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" has been recorded in the relevant records. Liezi: "King Mu of Zhou marched on Xi Rong, Xi Rong offered the sword of Kun Gong, and the cloth of fire and raccoon." ...... The cloth of the fire raccoon, the raccoon will be thrown into the fire, the cloth will be the color of the fire, the scale will be the color of the cloth, and the fire will vibrate, and the snow will be condensed. ”
"Naturalist Chronicle Volume II" Yun: "The Book of Zhou says: The Western Regions offer fire and raccoon cloth, and the Kunwu clan offers cutting jade knives." The fire is filthy, the fire is clean, and the knife cuts jade like fat. It turned out that Xi Rong was adjacent to Western Zhou and had frequent exchanges, so they brought the fire raccoon cloth to the King of Zhou to ask for friendship.
In the Han Dynasty, there were also a large number of texts that recorded the fire raccoon cloth.
Volume 1 of the "Miscellaneous Records of Xijing" records that "During the reign of Emperor Wu, the Western Regions offered Ji Guangqiu and did not enter the water. When you take this coat to listen to the dynasty. "This Yoshimitsu joo that does not get wet in the water is made of fire raccoon cloth.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huohuan cloth was not only produced in the western region, but also in the southwest Yi.
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, The Tale of the Western Regions, and the Great Qin State: "Painted with gold, clothed with fire... All foreign treasures are revealed. ”
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Biography of the Southwest Yi Lie says: "The gift of taming birds and sealing beasts with fire and water (i.e., fire raccoon cloth) was accumulated in the inner province. ”
Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Fourth Chronicle of the Three Young Emperors: "The Western Regions retranslate the offering of fire and raccoon cloth, and the great general and the lieutenant of the Zhao Dynasty tried to show Bailiao." ”
The "Book of Jin and the Biography of Zhang Rail" records that "the countries of the Western Regions have donated more than 200 products of sweat and blood horses, fire raccoon cloth, calves, peacocks, giant elephants, and various treasures." ”
The Biography of Jin Shu Jian Lie says: "The King of Shanshan and the King of the Former Part of cheshi came to the dynasty, Dawan sacrificed sweat and blood horses, and Tianzhu offered fire and raccoon cloth." ”
According to ancient Chinese mythology. The Fire Raccoon Cloth is also said to be a divine thing from the Divine Queen Mother of the Immortal West.
According to the "Biography of Lieyi", a man named Liu Zhuo dreamed of a person in his illness, with Bai Yue single shirt with him, saying that "Ru wears a shirt that is dirty, and the fire is clean", and when he wakes up and sees that there is indeed a fire raccoon cloth shirt next to him, it has become the story of the immortal descending to teach the fire raccoon cloth shirt.
The Collected Notes, Volume 10, records that "King Yan Zhao's seat on the platform of the clouds, also known as the Tongxia Platform, with dragon paste as the lamp, shining a hundred miles of smoke and purple, the people of the country look forward to it, the salty words are bright, the world worships it, and the lamp is wrapped in fire and raccoon cloth." ”
There is also a "fire raccoon cloth" woven from plants:
"Xuanzhong Ji" Yun: "There are fire volcanoes in the south, and the mountains are on fire from April, and the fire is extinguished in December." In February and March, the fire does not burn, but the mountains are out of the clouds, and the grass and trees grow leaves and branches, and in April, the fire burns, and the grass and trees fall leaves, such as the grass and trees in the cold of China. Pedestrians walk down this mountain in February and March of the first month, take firewood as a salary, and when the fire is endless, take its skin and take its performance, thinking that it is a fire raccoon cloth. ”
The book "Baopuzi" records that "in the South China Sea, in the Hills, there are self-generating fires, which often rise in the spring and extinguish in the autumn." When the fire rises, there is a pure wood on this hill, and the fire is directly on this wood, although the wood is held by fire, and the person or the one who thinks that the salary, such as the regular salary, does not become charcoal, and the cooked is poured out. After the reuse, so endless. The Yi people took muhua and thought that it was fire raccoon cloth, and the wood bark was also peeled, and the ash was boiled as a cloth, but it was not as good as Hua's fine ears. This statement means that the fire raccoon cloth is taken from plants.
There is also a theory that it is woven from animal fur, that is, "fire rat hair", and some people say that it is woven from the bark of trees on volcanoes.
The Records of the Ten Continents of The Sea, the Chronicle of Foreign Objects, the Fu Zi, and the Divine Scriptures are all recorded. The fire rat is a strange rat that lives in a volcano at the end of the South China Sea in Chinese legend.
"Divine Anomaly" Cloud: There is a volcano in the south, forty miles long, endless wood, fire day and night. ...... There are rats in the fire, weighing 100 pounds, and the hair is more than two feet long,...... Take its wool, weave it as cloth, use it like dirt, burn it, that is, clean it. This rat is also known as the Fire Light Beast, and its fur is cloth and fire alkane cloth...
The Divine Scripture says: "There are volcanoes in the south, and there are trees that do not burn, and the fire burns day and night, and the wind is not fierce, and the rainstorm is not extinguished." There are rats in the fire, weighing a hundred pounds, the hair is more than two feet long, as thin as silk, constantly living in the fire, going out all the time, and the color is white, and the water is fertile and dead. If it is used for dirt, it will be cleaned by fire. ”
According to this book, the fire rat was born in the southern volcano, living in the fire, white hair as fine as silk, more than two feet long, its wool weaving cloth, dirty fire raccoon.
Kunlun Mountain has a total of nine weights, and it is surrounded by a fiery mountain, and in the fire grows a rat larger than an ox, weighing a thousand pounds, two feet long, and hairy like silk. This rat lived in the fire and turned red, and as soon as it came out, it turned snow white, and as soon as it left the fire, it quickly splashed water. When it splashes water, it dies, its woolen cloth is made into clothes, never washed, if it is dirty, it is burned in the fire, just as white as new, and people call it fire raccoon cloth.
The Book of Ten Continents says: (Yanzhou) There are also fire forest mountains, and there are fire beasts in the mountains, as large as rats, with hairs three or four inches long, or red or white. The mountain can be three hundred miles, and this mountain forest can be seen in the night, but this beast shines on people, and it looks like a fire. Take its animal hair, take it as cloth, and call it fire raccoon cloth, which is also. The clothes of the chinese people are temporarily stained with soldiers, and they are raccooned with ash juice, and there is no cleaning in the end. Only the fire burned this garment, the cloth plate between the meals, the swing, its dirt fell on its own, white as snow.
The Yuanren Tao Zongyi recorded in the "Nancun Shu Cultivation Record, Volume 23", "There is a wooden lock in the Huiqi Wild Horse River, and when it is burned, its fire will not be extinguished over the years, and it will not be ashed." The woman in the other place took the root of the hat and did not burn it in the fire, like a fire rat cloth cloud. ”
Compared with the fire raccoon cloth of fire bark and fire rat hair, it is generally believed that the cloth woven by fire rat hair is soft and smooth, and the texture is better than that woven by bark.
In the Wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties Zhiwei novels, the fairies who descended to the human world often carried fire raccoon cloth. Tao Hongjing's Zhen zhen shu vol. 1 records a story of a fairy giving a fire raccoon cloth hand towel, "The stunned green man... The year can be twenty or so, green clothes, the color is absolutely perfect, to shengping three years of November 10 night to lower the sheep power. Since then, in the middle of January, six times have come and gone. Yunben's surname is Yang, and he gives a right poem and a fire raccoon cloth hand towel. ”
From the Two Han Dynasties and the Wei And Jin Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Fire Raccoon Cloth also has a layer of mysterious cultural color.
The "Discussion on the Tiewei Mountain Cluster" records in detail, "There are two enemies in the northwest of the national dynasty, and there are crossed toes in the south, so there are eight Yi and nine barbarians, and there are few passages." During the reign of Emperor Taizong, Lingwu was besieged, because if the Western Regions were to eat the envoys, they would be able to come to the sea. And the Zhezong Dynasty, the beginning of the fire raccoon cloth seven inches, greatly surprised. At the beginning of the political peace, those who entered the fire and raccoon cloth were already half dead. Then the basket came, and if it was like the kapok of the present, it was white in the fire, not rat hair. The imperial government makes people spin themselves, which is the genus of the scarf and skirt robe, and it is not expensive enough. "This records that in the seventh year of the Great Song Dynasty (1092 AD), the Great Food Kingdom offered fire and raccoon cloth. Only 20 years later, during the political and political years, fire raccoon cloth was already everywhere, and it was no longer particularly precious.
This shows that this is not only a saying that only existed in the Tang Dynasty, but also the fire and raccoon cloth offered in the western region in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, which is said to have been obtained by the powerful foreign general Liang Ji.
The Fu Zi says: "When the elders said that when Han Huan was in han huan, Liang Ji made a single robe of fire and raccoon cloth, and he would meet the guests, and before the courtiers of the duke of wine, he pretended to lose his cup of wine and polluted it, and he was angry, and he undressed and burned it, and the cloth was burned, and the cloth was like a fire, and the cloth was like burning, and the scale was extinguished, and the dust was white, like water. That is, Liang Ji deliberately performed the trick of burning single clothes at the banquet, which made a deep impression on people, and many years later it is still a legend among the elders.
It is said that during the reign of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, such a thing happened in China, and someone deliberately threw his fire robe into the fire, and the result was as bright as ever. The content is as follows:
Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Huan of Han, the great general Liang Ji sewed a unique garment from asbestos-rich fire raccoon cloth. In order to show off his treasure robe in front of people, liang Ji showed that he was a person with mysterious and special functions and extraordinary, so he set up a banquet at home and invited the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.
At the banquet, when all the civil and military officials were in full swing, General Liang Ji walked among the guests in his "treasure clothes" and frequently toasted to the guests with a spring breeze. When all the guests were half drunk and half awake, General Liang Ji took advantage of the toast and accidentally spilled the wine on his "treasure coat".
At this time, General Liang Ji, pretending to be very annoyed, simply took off his clothes in front of everyone and threw him into the fire pit without any scruples. The crowd was amazed by Liang Ji's move, and euphemistically said that it was a pity that such a good piece of clothing had been burned like that. Between the words, after the fire burned, the people found that the clothes in the fire pit were intact, and the previous wine was gone, and the clothes seemed to have been washed again. The full audience was amazed. Since then, Liang Ji has become famous for the "Baoyi" incident, and the outside world has been rumored that the great general Liang Ji is an extraordinary figure.
However, this story also appears in "Rome", where Charlemagne of the Roman Empire used asbestos as a tablecloth, and after a banquet, he also deliberately threw the tablecloth into the fire and burned it, which was surprising to everyone. It is also said that "Rome" is very familiar with the substance asbestos.
Apollonius Dískolus describes asbestos tablecloths as follows:
When these napkins are soiled, the way to clear the dirt is not to put them in water to wash, but to light the branches and put the dirty napkins on the fire, so that the dirt on the napkins will be removed, and the napkin cloth taken out of the fire will become bright and pure.
- Excerpt from The Golden Peach of Samarkand
[It's just that the description in "The Golden Peach of Samarkand" seems to be like China copying "Rome", because it seems that a similar story has happened!] So, exactly who copied whom, the obvious thing!
This story, should be known to many people ah, remember "InuYasha", Inuyasha wears clothes made of fire rat skin Oh, it is this kind of fire raccoon cloth!
Figure "InuYasha" inuyasha wearing a fire rat fur
Figure "Fire Rat Skin", an artifact that the Orange Terrier also draped in "InuYasha", is also draped with fire.
Fire Rat Fur: InuYasha's clothes, fiery red, the arm and arm connection have been shot by Nairo (he turned into a kirisame) Defense is much higher than the average armor, Inuyasha also once said: "This Fire Rat Fur is much stronger than the average rotten armor!" "And able to defend against fire, while having the ability to self-heal!"
If you don't understand a little culture, you can't even understand the cartoons! 】