When the brilliant sun shines on the earth, when everything is revived, when everything is revived, when the open fire meets the bamboo tube, when the industry creates miracles, a great ancient industry comes to us.
Fire is the invention of human intelligence, which allows human beings to get rid of the habit of eating raw food, so as to gradually enter civilized society, and the fire fold is the product of human beings in continuous exploration, and it is also an ancient invention of the mainland.
Time cannot destroy the monument of history, and the fire fold brought by the ancients with wisdom is still used today.
In the past, there was Hephaestus, the western god of fire, who brought fire to the human world. Later, Chinese clever wisdom to develop fire folds.
What is a fire fold? I believe that many people do not know much about it, fire folds are generally composed of a medium-sized bamboo tube, a small amount of sulfur, some soil paper, a small amount of cotton.
The sulfur, soil paper, cotton wrapped up and lit and put into a bamboo tube, the fire will not be extinguished, nor will it burn, in a semi-burning state. It will not burn the bamboo tube, and it can be used as you like.
When it needs to be used, it will be gently blown against the tail end, and it will rekindle and flames will appear, and there is no need to work hard to use the ancient method of making fire.
The principle is very simple, we all know that the necessary condition for the flame to burn up is air circulation, and the flame in the bamboo tube is a state of isolation from the air, so it is half-burned and half-extinguished.
But once it has made sufficient contact with the air and accelerated the flow of air in the bamboo tube, the fire will re-burn.
The process of making fire folds
First collect the brick nitrate (brick nitrate on the ordinary stone wall), then prepare the ground black charcoal, pour the charcoal into an iron strainer and filter it out, and find an empty wooden container.
The collected brick salt and the milled black charcoal are stirred to make it fully fused, and the mixture at this time is first tested with flames whether it can burn, and if it can be burned, it proves that the production is correct.
Prepare a fresh long bamboo tube, divide it into two halves, one long and one short, the green skin on the outside of the top of the long bamboo tube needs to be cut off, leaving only the tender white skin inside, and put on the short bamboo tube so that it can just be closed.
Deal with all this, put the made bamboo tube into the hot sun, and the bamboo tube can be yellowed.
Prepare fresh sweet potato vines, first soak the sweet potato vine in water, make it fully infested with water, take it out after three days, flatten the soaked sweet potatoes, add cotton, tear the cotton into small pieces, and then lay flat on the reed flowers, use a hammer to beat it flat, beat it to a thin layer, put it in the sun, dry, and dry until it is dry and yellow.
Crush the rosin and set aside, then prepare camphor, sulfur. Sprinkle the brick salt on a mixture of freshly squashed sweet potato canes and cotton and reed flowers. Sprinkle with sulfur, camphor, and finally lay the first step of black charcoal and brick nitrate mixture.
When you're done adding them all, carefully roll them up and stuff them into a sun-dried bamboo tube.
Use the fire to ignite a small part first, and then gently blow the flame to make it heat evenly, and cover the bamboo tube cover. Such a complete fire fold is made.
The history of the development of fire folds
Fire folds first appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, due to the turbulent situation in the country, frequent wars, and shortage of materials.
The people can only go all the way to the topsy-turvy and displaced to beg for a living, but along the way, there is always a fire to cook, at that time to make a fire can only rely on drilling wood for fire, it takes a long time, all the way to escape, it is always inconvenient to use the old methods before.
People were thinking that if only the burning fire would not be extinguished and ready to use, the idea was quickly realized.
It is said that in the country of Qi, a little palace girl was gluttonous at night and ran to the kitchen to steal food, but the food had become cold, and she drilled wood to make a fire to heat the food.
After the heating, and want to keep the fire for a while night road lighting, just next to the bamboo tube, she in order to the flame will not be completely extinguished, she put it in first, just when the palace maid ate with relish, a gust of wind struck, blowing the hair of the palace maid, but also lit the flame in the bamboo tube,
She was puzzled, after several identical experiments.
The little palace girl was surprised to find that the flame was put into the bamboo tube, and it would not burn in the fire, let alone extinguish, and it only needed to blow the fire from the other end and burn up.
Since then, the crude fire fold was officially born, widely circulated among people, it gradually became an "ancient lighter", people no longer have to be as clumsy as before to make fire, and finally there is a simple and convenient way to make a fire.
This discovery has taken a big step forward in the development of production on the mainland, which is the "light" that belongs to the people and is also a "light" on the national milestone.
How to use the fire fold
Fire folder is similar to today's lighter, when used need to open the top cover, blowing, the force of blowing is also skilled, the operator suddenly short force blowing, the amount of air must be large.
This method of operation can make the flame burn warmly.
Everyday use of fire origami
Everyone is unfamiliar with the fire fold, but as long as you have seen the ghost blowing the lamp, you know that the tool of the open fire in the tomb is actually the fire fold.
Fire folding is widely used in the daily life of the ancients, ordinary people need to make a fire for daily cooking, in the past they could only go up the mountain to collect firewood, and then spend half an hour to drill wood for fire, which is very troublesome and wastes time, and a meal takes an hour or two to make it. Other methods of preserving the source of fire are also less convenient.
However, when the fire fold is started, people find that it saves effort and saves time, and the next time you need to use it with just a light blow, the fire source can appear.
Rich people like to smoke shisha also need fire to light tobacco, we still have a lot of old people in the countryside today love to smoke shisha, need to constantly use the lighter to light tobacco, the same in ancient times, so it is more wasteful fire fold, at that time only rich and noble families can enjoy so much fire fold.
In ancient times, there was no electric lamp, and the flame was equivalent to their lighting tool, and they needed fire folds to go out and walk at night to illuminate the darkness in this long road.
In ancient times, the traffic was covered, the roads were bumpy, it took ten and a half days to go out of the long gate, the road was long, there were many potential dangers, so fire became an indispensable thing.
When suddenly encountering danger, you need to fire to defend yourself, halfway without an inn to rest, you need to keep the flames warm, a long way to replenish your physical strength, but also need fire, fire to cook.
In this way, the fire fold became almost a must-have item for everyone at that time.
epilogue
Ancient Chinese civilization, with wisdom as the pen and sweat as the ink. Under the firmament of history, show your glory.
A great man once proposed that "from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom", mankind must constantly sum up experience in order to discover something, to create something, and to make social progress. The glorious history of mankind is a history of continuous development, and this history has always been on the way forward.
Nature is constantly developing, production technology, science should also continue to progress, everything in the world will never stay at a level. In the journey of science, only continuous and arduous climbing will have remarkable results.