The land where we are located has a very long cultural history, since the production of writing, these histories began to be recorded by the ancestors, by us to understand, there are many people and things hidden in the past, the reason why we can understand the history is that there are countless people in the past, with as many methods as possible to study, summarize, record the process of civilization.
I have always admired the ancient stargazers, who looked up at the sky every night from generation to generation and recorded the changes of the stars and the sea, which were used for agricultural production, to draw maps, to grasp the changes of the tides, and to make calendars. These most basic laws of nature make our lives rational and traceable.
Since the Qin Dynasty unified weights and measures, many things used by ordinary people have a unified size and size, many of which are based on the number and change of stars, such as 16 taels in ancient times is 1 catty, and the length of chopsticks is 7 inches and 6 minutes.
The story of Jin and Liang
If you want to understand why 16 taels is 1 catty, you must understand the ancient units of measurement.
Before the Qin Dynasty, many countries did not have a unified standard, and the "take thirty 锊 (lǚ)" recorded on Mao Gongding shows that the gong is also a unit of weight, and most countries during the Warring States Period used two units of weight, Jin and Eridium. You can see the level of confusion.
The word "jin" that we are familiar with now is actually written as "釿", which was first used to represent the weight of metal currency, and later in the Warring States period Yan, Chu and other countries gradually simplified before writing "jin".
So as a subordinate unit of catty, how did the two come about?
The origin of the two is related to music, and there is a first-order sound name in the ancient music rhythm, Huang Zhong, which is a musical instrument made of bamboo, which is a simple bamboo pipe.
The Hanshu Chronicles of the Law records the saying about the unit of measurement, the length of a yellow bell is the basic length, how big is the volume of the yellow bell, the unit of volume is how much, a yellow bell weighs 12 baht coins, and the weight of two yellow bells is 24 baht coins, and later the number of two also became a unit of weight, and 24 baht coins are two.
After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, in order to understand how much land and how much money there was in his country, the king found that the units of measurement in various places were very chaotic, and it was completely impossible to count accurate figures, which seriously affected the development of all walks of life.
But why does sixteen taels take up to a catty?
This involves astronomical knowledge again, the ancients observed the stars, and found that the Big Dipper and the Big Dipper always exist, as if containing natural laws, so the thirteen stars were included in the unit use, and later added the three stars called Fu Lu Shou that have been leaning together on the horizon, unified into the sixteen stars.
Joining Fu Lu Shou Samsung also means that businessmen are honest, and it is indispensable to have less than two catties, otherwise Fu Shou Lu will be nothing.
That's why there was a later sixteen taels for a catty.
How to judge how much an item is in ancient times, which requires a unified measuring tool, the invention of the rod scale can be described as a collection of knowledge from all walks of life in the ancient continent, the sixteen star points on the scale rod are sixteen taels, also representing the sixteen stars, the fixed weight of the scale, the use of the lever principle, you can easily weigh the weight of the item.
According to legend, the rod scale was invented by Lu Ban, and some people say that it was made by Fan Li by chance, and history is real, but we can only get a glimpse of a small part from some simple words and pictures.
Feel the cultural heritage from the origin of chopsticks
Nowadays, all kinds of chopsticks on the market are made of different materials and lengths, but according to tradition, chopsticks also have a uniform length.
As the most frequently used kitchenware in our daily life, every household has it, and it is indispensable, and chopsticks are also widely recognized by the world as a unique table image in China.
But how did the chopsticks come about, and how did they specify the length?
First of all, the length of the unit of measurement is also related to the bamboo tube of Huang Zhong, a unified unit of measurement, the largest, now also used, the smallest minutes, inches, etc.
According to the length of the yellow bell, a yellow bell is one point long, ten is ten, ten is an inch, and ten inches is a foot.
Secondly, the purpose of chopsticks is to clamp food, so originally chopsticks were called owls, which means clipping.
People who lived about 3,000 years ago, when they scooped the vegetables in the soup with a spoon in their hands, they found it very inconvenient, if there was something that could only clamp the vegetables, and not drink the soup, it would be good, then they saw the branches on the trees outside, walked over and folded two, holding one in their left hand and one in their right hand, and actually caught the vegetables.
Later, after continuous practice, I learned to use it with one hand, and found a straighter item in nature, and gradually it began to be widely used, until the Han Dynasty, when the name was changed to chopsticks, and the production materials have also made great progress, and now it is called "chopsticks" in the Ming Dynasty on the mainland, and the word chopsticks has been used in many novels of this period.
Finally, let's explore why chopsticks grow into what we see today, and our ancestors will not do anything without purpose, so chopsticks, as an indispensable utensil in our daily life, also have a considerable origin.
The length of the first chopsticks is 7 inches and six minutes, representing the seven emotions and six desires of people, from the "Book of Rites" to Confucianism and Buddhism, they all attach great importance to the seven emotions and six desires of people, which is the fundamental difference between people and animals.
Second, there are two chopsticks, which caters to the Chinese saying about the harmony of yin and yang.
Third, chopsticks have two square and round ends, on the one hand, they conform to the Xi of grasping the human hand, and on the other hand, they also have the meaning of a round sky.
Finally, when grasping the three fingers of man, it conforms to the philosophical understanding of three beings and all things, and between division and merger, it also represents the joys and sorrows of people.
This is the wisdom of the ancestors, the combination of science and metaphysics, which not only conforms to the laws of nature, but also sends good wishes in the small chopsticks.
epilogue
The charm of history lies in the exploration of the stories that have happened, they are known and unknown, from the simple weight standards, to the chopsticks we use every day, there are also the pasts that fascinate us, and what we can do is to understand them and protect these treasures.
The Xi of 16 taels for 1 jin and chopsticks for 7 inches and 6 minutes is an important tradition that Chinese descendants must understand.
These traditions are not only the regulations of the ancients on measurement and food culture, but also the pursuit of fairness, justice, food culture and etiquette norms by the descendants of China. By understanding the allusions and cultural connotations behind these traditions, we can better inherit and carry forward the traditional Chinese culture, so that it can shine with new brilliance in the modern society.
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