Wen | Flying Fish says history
With the rapid development of science and technology, space is no longer an inaccessible forbidden place for human beings.
On April 24, 1970, China's first artificial earth satellite was successfully launched, which opened the prelude to the Chinese people's exploration of the mysteries of the universe, the peaceful use of space, and the benefit of mankind.
On March 8, 2016, the State Council approved the establishment of April 24 as "China Space Day" every year.
Today, we have spent six space days, and in the space day that has just passed, China's first Mars rover also has a mighty and domineering name - Zhu Rong
Aerospace is a national dream, so we must not forget everyone who has contributed to the aerospace cause of the motherland.
Qian Xuesen, Yang Liwei, Nie Haisheng...
In addition, it is also worth remembering a Ming Dynasty official more than six hundred years ago, who wanted to go to heaven with a single mind, and his name was Wanhu.
This person's original name was Tao Guangyi, and the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang personally gave him the name "Enlightenment", and later received the title of "Ten Thousand Households", and from then on, people used to call him Ten Thousand Households.
So why would this Ming Dynasty man have anything to do with aerospace, is it possible that the tens of thousands of households that grew up in the Ming Dynasty have begun to explore the flying sky, and is it not hundreds of years earlier than the Wright brothers who made airplanes?
You don't have to say that it is.
And at an International Astronomical Union more than four decades ago, astronomers also named a craters on the moon Mt. Mando in honor of "the world's first man to try to use fireworks for flight."
Therefore, Wanhu is also known as the world's first person in spaceflight, and his statue also stands in the theme park of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
So how did Wanhu fly in the sky, his method was simple and rude, directly tied 47 fireworks (rockets) to the chair, and he sat on the chair.
The 10,000-household flying sky has begun...
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="50" > do not love liberal arts and sciences</h1>
In Jinhua, Zhejiang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a large family surnamed Tao was happy to have a noble son, and his parents named him Guangyi, perhaps his parents expected him to become an official in the future and make a fortune and spread benevolence.
Not to mention, Tao Guangyi is really a seedling of a good student, but what his parents do not understand is that he does not love liberal arts at all, but he is extremely partial to science, especially for physical chemistry, which can even be described as obsessed.
And Tao Guangyi's hobby still stems from an alchemy accident.
The original Tao Guangyi liked alchemy, not to say immortality, longevity is also good, for this reason Tao Guangyi also converted his study into an alchemy room.
Not to mention, having capital is willfulness.
In the process of refining Dan, his alchemy furnace exploded, and Tao Guangyi, who was almost not blown up, began to develop fireworks and firearms.
Tao Guangyi soon mastered all kinds of techniques for making firearms, and extremely powerful rockets were also built one after another under his careful study.
In that chaotic world, these firearms could not only be lit and heard, but could also be used in war.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="50" > Tao Guangyi became a million households</h1>
According to relevant historical data, ancient rockets first appeared in the Three Kingdoms period, which was to load torches on arrows and then launch them, and later ancient China invented gunpowder, and began to be used in warfare at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the earliest and most primitive "gunpowder arrows" in human history appeared, and later this gunpowder arrow was also used in warfare, and was introduced to Europe with the ancient Silk Road, and then had an impact on the history of world wars.
Tao Guangyi was born in the chaotic world at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the firearms he made naturally could not only see the light and hear the sound.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the situation, and when he attacked Wuzhou, Tao Guangyi turned to Zhu Yuanzhang with his own disciples and firearms and skills in making firearms.
Later, in Zhu Yuanzhang's many wars, Tao Guangyi's firearms played a very important role, and after Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty, he sealed Tao Guangyi as a million households and personally gave him the name "Enlightenment".
And Tao Guangyi himself is also extremely eager to become enlightened, and more importantly, Tao Guangyi has become a "ten thousand households" with extreme dreams.
But his dream is not to achieve fame, but to soar like a bird in the free sky.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="50" > the flying dream of thousands of households</h1>
It is said that the dream of flying is not only in the dream, he has been thinking about how to achieve it, when he watched the rocket whizzing into the sky, he felt that the power of the rocket could be used.
But only the rocket is not enough, because the rocket will explode, so the ten thousand households can not directly hold the rocket to fly.
After thinking about it for a long time, Wanhu thought of having to borrow other tools, so he thought of the chair he was sitting on, so he tied the rocket he had made to the chair.
In order to make the power sufficient and sustainable, Wanhu tied 47 rockets to the chair, and divided into two rows, not to mention, Wanhu is really a talent, this method can be figured out.
But it is not enough to fly up to the sky, you have to find a way to land, otherwise the rocket will take itself up, and then come to a free fall in the air, which is not directly into a meat cake.
Since the power to take off is gone, landing is naturally not difficult for ten thousand households, and the way he thought of it is to use kites to land.
In this way, the equipment of 10,000 households is complete, the chairs tied with 47 rockets are used for ascent, the giant kite is used for landing, and there are methods for ascension and landing, and the last step is to find someone who dares to do experiments.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="50" > gave their lives for ideals</h1>
On a sunny day, Wanhu took out all the equipment he had prepared, and he decided to fly himself, so he sat on a chair that had been prepared with a rocket, holding two giant kites.
When he was ready, he ordered his servants to light a fire.
But the servant did not dare to light the fire, because he knew that if this experiment failed, the ten thousand households would not survive.
Wan Hu had already put life and death aside, and he decided to fight for the ideal in his mind, so he also ordered his servants to quickly light the fire and not to be afraid.
The servant lit the fuse in a trembling, and then the ignited rockets slowly left the ground, but when the second row of rockets was ignited, the accident occurred, and only a loud noise was heard, and the rockets of the second row exploded together.
The chair where the ten thousand households were sitting was also ignited, directly becoming a huge fireball, falling from the air, without the slightest accident, and the ten thousand households lost their lives.
Although Wanhu died, his story and spirit have been passed down.
He was the first hero in the world to use a rocket to fight into space, and although his efforts failed, his idea of lifting off with rocket thrust was the first in the world, so he was recognized by the world as the "true ancestor of spaceflight".
Fyodossiev and Syalev, two rocketologists of the former Soviet Union, also said in their Introduction to Rocket Technology that Chinese was not only the inventor of the rocket, but also "the first fantasist who tried to use solid-fuel rockets to carry people into the air."
And all this is due to the ten thousand households...
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, etc.
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