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    Yongding River is too similar to the legendary Wangchuan River.

    Its water is also reddish yellow, and it is also fishy.  This is because a large number of reeds and wild rice grow on the river beach, so the people of Song Dynasty called it "Lu wild rice river".  Blackwater River".

    Lu is black, so the "lu" of reed wild rice was changed to "lu" to understand the "black" meaning of water, and "wild" and "gou" are homophonic, so it was changed from reed wild rice to "Lugou River".

    Since the Yuan Dynasty, due to the high sediment content of the rivers below Zhuolu and Huailai, the river water has turned red and yellow, so it has also been called "Little Yellow River" and "Hunhe River".

    The construction of Lugou Bridge started in the 28th year of Jin Dading [1188.5] and was completed in the third year of Mingchang [1192.4. 24].  Jin Zhangzong named it "Guangli", and changed its name to Lugou Bridge because it crossed the Lugou River.

    As early as the 13th century, Lugou Bridge was famous all over the world.  It was after Marco Polo came to China, in his travel notes, he praised this bridge very much, saying that it was "the only overpass bridge in the world".  And I especially appreciate the lions engraved on the bridge railings, saying that they "compose together the beautiful wonders of the East"!

    [1] "Ancient Ideas" Luo Hengxin. Poem

    The cattail grass is thin near the stone, and the cattail grass is fat near the lake.

    ?Because each has already decided, I don't want to change the phase.

    Shunhua stood among the bushes on the river bank, and asked the long-legged: "What is sleepwalking?"

    "Sleepwalking is when a person wakes up after falling asleep. After getting up and doing some strange things, he goes back to bed and continues to sleep. After waking up, he doesn't know anything about everything in his sleep." The long legs are vivid and colorful  Describing the sleepwalker's actions as if he had sleepwalked before.

    Shunhua let him say that he was completely confused. Is he dead or sleepwalking?

    Just listen to the big long legs and asked again: "Do you have the habit of sleeping naked?"

    "You just slept naked!" Shunhua was very upset.

    "I'm naked, of course I'm sleeping naked! But you are a lady, how can you"

    "Didn't someone rob you after you went out!"

    "The way of robbery?"

    "yes!"

    "Just robbed clothes, didn't rob anything 'other'?"

    "What else do you want to rob!"

    "No, I don't rob, I mean that bandit he, he only robbed your clothes?"

    "There is also the jade bracelet on the hand and the golden hairpin on the head."

    "This robber, let me leave one for you! Oh, I'm talking about clothes," the long-legged man analyzed, "How can you not even have a pair of underwear left"

    "What do you mean?"

    "Didn't I help you analyze it!" said the long-legged man, "If you were sleepwalking, would you go out dressed so neatly? You even put on a gold hairpin Hey~ Where did he rob you?"

    "On a hillsidelikein a coffin"

    The long legs couldn't help shivering, "You, you, isn't this a ghost!" He was really confused, "Why did you come back again! You, stretch your legs over."

    "What are you going to do again?"

    "I'll pinch you to see if it hurts!"

    "Can't I pinch myself?"

    "Then you should pinch it!"

    Shunhua lightly tried to pinch on her thigh

    The big long legs said anxiously: "You should try harder!"

    "Is it, it's not your leg, ah! ah! ah! It hurts!" Shunhua finally knew the pain, it was the long leg twisting hard on Shunhua's waist.  Shunhua glared at him and said, "You're looking for a fight!" Then he raised his small fist and hit the big long leg.

    The long legs dodged suddenly, his legs and feet were not stable, and he fell to the ground. Shunhua took advantage of the situation and fell on top of him, "Ah~ ah~, ghosts eat people!"

    Shunhua quickly got up.

    The long legs were still lying on the ground, where he savored the feeling of that moment¡ªit was so comfortable!

    Shunhua glanced at him and said, "What are you doing lying there? Want to blackmail someone?"

    Lying on the rushes with long legs, he said: "You don't seem to be a ghost! Ghost, how can you be so heavy? You are so heavy!"

    "That's why it's called a 'dead ghost'! Let me tell you, I haven't eaten since yesterday, otherwise, I'll be heavy"

    Unexpectedly, after Shunhua reminded him, the long legs asked, "Are you hungry?"

    "Yeah, my stomach is rumbling all the time!"

    "That's nagging, you're not a ghost, ghosts don't know they're hungry." The long-legged man stood up and said, "Wait, I'll buy you some delicious food."

    "Okay, okay!" Shun said.Prepare two sets of quilts for winter and summer.  For example, Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, made many quilts during his lifetime.  Lu Yun, a native of Jin, recorded in "Book with Brother Ji" that he saw "seven cold summer quilts (beds)" among Cao Cao's relics during his lifetime.

    Like winter quilts, summer quilts (single quilts and small quilts) were also commonly used by the ancients.  Summer quilts are also called "air-conditioning quilts" now, and the room is covered with an air-conditioner to avoid getting cold. In ancient times, there was a kind of summer quilt that was really like an air-conditioning quilt, and covering the body could lower body temperature.  According to Tang Su'e's "Du Yang Miscellaneous Edition", this kind of air conditioner is called "Shenjin quilt", which was paid tribute to the Dazhen Kingdom: "Shenjin quilt, also woven with ice silk. It is two feet square and one inch thick. It is decorated with dragons, phoenixes and phoenixes.  It is almost impossible to reach artificially. It is covered by summer and moon, and it is cool and penetrating." The silk used in the Shenjin quilt is now called "real silk", which is a high-grade quilt silk. The ancients called this kind of silk quilt "silk quilt".  This is why the modern "quilt" was written as "quilt" in ancient times.

    (2) What were the quilts made by the ancients filled with?

    The quilt to keep out the cold in winter needs filling, which is the so-called "quilt".  Before there was no cotton, the ancients who could not afford to use silk often used "catkins" as "quilts". Reed flowers, willow catkins, thatch, etc. could be used as catkins.  Pick reed flowers and put them in the quilt."

    The quality of the wadding is very poor, which is what it means to say "the wadding is among them".  Obviously, a cloth quilt is not as comfortable and warm as a silk quilt when covered on the body, especially if it is covered for more than one year, the warmth retention effect will be even worse.  Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in "The Thatched House Was Broken by the Autumn Wind": "The cloth quilt has been as cold as iron for many years, and the jiaoer is lying on the inside and cracking."

    In addition, the ancients also used the feathers and feathers of chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and other animals as fillings. The "down quilts" and "cashmere quilts" that modern people like are actually not new to the ancients.

    In the Tang and Song Dynasties, with the advancement of papermaking, people thought of using paper to make quilts, which is the "paper quilt".  Paper quilts are produced in Fujian with the best quality. After receiving the paper quilts brought to him by Zhu Xi from Fujian, Song poet Lu You wrote a special poem "Thank you Zhu Yuanhui for sending paper quilts" and praised: "The paper quilts are surrounded by snow, white  Yuhu's armpits are as soft as cotton."

    (3) When was cotton introduced to China?

    Cotton cultivation first appeared in the Indus Valley Civilization in 4-5 millennium BC.  Around the 9th century, the Moors brought cotton farming methods to Spain.  In the 15th century, cotton was introduced to England and then to British colonies in North America.  In the 16th century, the Spaniards entered southern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula and found that the local cotton planting industry was well developed. The islanders spun colored cotton into homespun cloth and made it into local clothing.

    In my country, at least before 2000, cotton fibers have been used as textile raw materials in Guangxi, Yunnan, Xinjiang and other regions.  But in the Central Plains, the cotton at that time was called "Zhibei". During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was also called "Kapok" or "Jibei", which is probably a transliteration of the Indian word "Jieboluo".  At that time, people only used cotton as an ornamental plant, and did not realize its economic value.  The famous Arab traveler Suleiman in the 9th century recorded in his "Suleiman's Travels" that the cotton seen in today's Beijing area was still viewed as "flowers" in gardens.  "Liang Shu. Gaochang Biography" also records, "there is grass on the ground, which is like a cocoon, and the silk in the cocoon is like a thin silk. It is called Baidiezi." It can be seen that cotton, an important raw material for the textile industry today, was originally  People treat it like flowers and grass.

    According to the analysis of flora combined with historical data: Cotton was introduced into my country through two routes: north and south.

    South Road, the earliest Asian cotton from India, was introduced to Hainan Island and Guangdong and Guangxi via Southeast Asia.  After that, at least during the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was introduced to Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan and other regions.  The second route was from India to Yunnan via Burma, around the time of the Qin and Han dynasties.

    North Road, that is, the "Western Regions" in ancient books.  The way is that African cotton was introduced into Xinjiang and the Hexi Corridor through West Asia, about the time of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.  During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, cotton spread to vast areas in the Yangtze and Yellow River basins.  By the 13th century, Beilu cotton had spread to the Weishui River Basin in Shaanxi.

    Historical documents and unearthed cultural relics prove that the people of all ethnic groups in the border areas of China planted and utilized cotton much earlier than the Central Plains. Until the Han Dynasty, cotton textiles in the Central Plains were still relatively rare and precious.  During the Tang and Song dynasties, cotton began to be transplanted to the Central Plains.  The earliest cotton textile relic seen in the Central Plains is a cotton blanket found in an ancient tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty.  That is to say, from this period, cotton cloth gradually replaced silk and became the main clothing material of our people.  In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, it was widely planted in the Guanzhong area of ??Northwest China.  The government set up a kapok lifting department to collect cotton cloth from the people on a large scale, up to 100,000 pieces per year. Later, cotton cloth was taken as the top of the summer tax (cloth, silk, silk, cotton). It can be seen that cotton cloth has become the main textile clothing material.  .  After the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers tried their best to expropriate cotton and cotton cloth, published books on cotton planting techniques, and persuaded the people to plant cotton.  From the records in Song Yingxing's "Tiangong Kaiwu" in the Ming Dynasty that "cotton cloth is available in every inch of land" and "looms must be found in ten rooms", it can be seen that cotton planting and cotton textiles had spread all over the country at that time.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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