There are two things in the world that can deeply shake our hearts: the lofty moral standards in our hearts, and the starry sky above our heads.
From ancient times to the present, Chinese who dream of flying dreams have emerged in an endless stream.
I believe that every teenager has fantasized about flying. But it is useless to stay in the stage of thinking about it, it always takes some practice, so I invented the kite, although I can't go up, but it is also excellent to have a kite for me to see the world.
Some people stay in the imagination, and some people dedicate themselves to countless experiments and trials.
When it comes to China's flying history, we must first talk about kites.
Kites, which have a history of more than 2,000 years, are the earliest flying machines invented by humans.
To this day, the flight and space industry still uses its flight principles.
Historical records record that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Mozi "cut wooden birds in Lushan (present-day Weifang, Shandong), became three years old, and flew for a day and was defeated."
Later, there was a public loss - Lu Ban (Lu Guoren) changed to bamboo and was successful.
In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, paper paste was used instead, so it was called "paper kite".
Chen Yi of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the "Inquiry Record kite": "Five generations of Li Yi made paper kites in the palace, and the lead played with the wind. After the head of the kite, the bamboo is used as a flute to make the wind into the bamboo, such as the kite, so it is called a kite. ”
With the kite, people are still not satisfied, and feel that the kite does not fly far enough, not high enough, not fast enough, so with their own wisdom, they invented a rocket, loaded the gunpowder in a paper tube, and then lit it and launched it.
As early as the 14th century, some people had already carried out space programs in anticipation of the moon landing.
He is Tao Guangyi, who is known as the "world's first person in spaceflight", and his other widely known name is "Wanhu".
10,000 households (?) –1390), whose real name was Tao Chengdao,or Tao Guangyi," was later given the name "Chengdao" by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Originally the chief of the Taojia Academy in Wucheng, Zhejiang, he liked to study alchemy techniques, and after an alchemy accident, he switched to trial firearms.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, The Wu king Zhu Yuanzhang went down to Wuzhou, and Tao Chengdao led a cadre of disciples to join each other and offer fire artifact skills. In the past wars, he repeatedly built up his miraculous feats, and was rewarded by Zhu Yuanzhang as "Ten Thousand Households", and since then Tao Chengdao has been called "Ten Thousand Households".
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Tao Chengdao was the first person to think of using rockets to fly in the sky, and was called "the world's first person in spaceflight".
In his later years, Tao Chengdao tied 47 homemade rockets to a chair, sat on them himself, held up 2 large kites in both hands, and then asked people to ignite them.
Imagine using the thrust of the rocket and the power of the kite to fly until the gunpowder burns out halfway, and the ten thousand households have sacrificed their lives for it, but even if they are crushed to pieces, they are not willing to give up their desire for freedom.
In honor of the 10,000 households, the International Astronomical Union named a craters on the moon after the ancient Chinese.
There are many inventors who dream of flying but have failed again and again.
Dreamers are not unaware of what the cost is, what they can get.
But they are still as righteous as a thousand households.
To this day, we still say, 'Fly high and see far', and there are still many children who dream of being pilots, astronauts, and still haven't forgotten the dream of flying.
But we don't need to risk our lives to soar into the sky now, as we did in the Ten Thousand Households period.
We only need one trip to experience the thrill of the plane as it rises, to look down on the world from the air, to feel the vastness of nature, to feel their own smallness...
In the clouds, enjoy the beauty of the air.