Share ten unpopular historical knowledge.
In Han dynasty, three or more people were fined for drinking together.
According to the Han law, three or more people who drink in groups for no reason will be fined four taels of gold.
The steamed bread was invented by Zhuge Liang.
The word steamed bread first appeared in the documents of the Western Jin Dynasty, but it was only in the Song Dynasty that the word steamed bread was officially used. It is said that when Zhuge Liang led his troops to attack Meng Huo, he was suggested to sacrifice human heads to the gods. But Zhuge Liang refused this suggestion, and instead made a head-shaped object out of flour to sacrifice to the gods. This is the origin of steamed bread.
In ancient times, eunuchs were called husbands.
This title is very common in ancient officialdom, such as a dream of red mansions.
4. In the history of China, the world’s first man carrying a man by rocket was named Wanhu.
However, this fact has not been put forward by foreign historians until recent years, and it has not been widely discussed by domestic historians.
Confucius is a veritable glutton.
Every time I go to Confucius’ cram school, I have to pay dried meat for tuition. In the famous Analects of Confucius handed down from ancient times, there are 41 words referring to "politics" and 41 words referring to "food". Obviously, eating is as important as preaching.
6. In 1644, a great plague broke out in northern China, resulting in the destruction of 200,000 Ming troops stationed in Beijing.
7. Due to the wrong ethnic policy in the Tang Dynasty, the land for horse production was in the hands of nomadic people, and the Song Dynasty could only resist the impact of nomadic people riding on the plains with infantry.
Therefore, the victory of the Song Dynasty is usually a rout war, not a real victory war.
8. Holding your hand and growing old with your son is actually an agreement between soldiers.
It means that they will die together, and later this agreement was extended to a promise between husband and wife.
9. Qin Shihuang was not completely unified.
At that time, there was another country in China, Weiguo, which was attached to Qin for a long time. Until 209 BC, Qin Ershi abolished the monarch of Weiguo, and Weiguo was declared extinct.
10. The longest-lived emperor in history was Zhao Tuo, the Emperor of South Vietnam, who lived to the age of 103.
