Ancient people travel mode, transportation are what?

Ancient people could not travel as much as modern people. The way people traveled was already limited, plus the roads were not accessible, there were often robbers on the road, traveling often worry about life. If the ancient people often traveled for as little as ten days and a half months, and as long as several years, and need to be fully prepared, so there is a parent in, not far away from the saying.

Of course, there is a reason to travel will begin to make preparations, first of all, divination, choose a good day to travel; then you have to pay homage to the ancestors, because it is not sure if you can still come back, plus the need for the blessing of the ancestors; and then you need to do the trampling feast, friends and family on the side of the road for the pedestrians to toast the goodbye ceremony. Finally, it's time to hit the road in peace.

So what kind of transportation did the ancients use?

First of all, walking: because visiting friends and other reasons to go out on foot, the road road is difficult, so the ancients compared to nowadays pay more attention to the feelings of friends.

Car and horse: before the Warring States period, the horse was designed to pull the car, generally speaking, there is no car without a horse and no horse without a car. By the Warring States period, the hu clothing riding, from the Xiongnu learned to ride a horse, and then slowly flourished. Ancient people not only use horse-drawn carts, but also oxcarts, compared to horse-drawn carts oxcarts are smoother and cheaper. Before the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, oxcarts were regarded as low-level vehicles. Of course, there were also donkey carts, which were generally used by people with less economic strength. In ancient times, the left side of the car was honored, the center was the one who drove the car, and the right side was the one who accompanied the car.

But the chariot is even more different, if it is the commander-in-chief, then in the center of the flag, driving the car on the left, the right is the bodyguard. The average chariot has the driver in the center, with a bow and arrow on the left and a spear on the right. The country of a thousand chariots was said to have a thousand chariots, each with a four-horse-drawn troop car, 3 armored soldiers on the car, 72 foot soldiers under the car, and 25 logistical personnel, **** counting 100 people. Before the Shang Dynasty, there were mostly two horses pulling the chariot, and in the late period, there were four horses. The outermost ones on the left and right were called 4 horses, and the middle ones were called service horses. The main power is still two horses: the center of the service horse, as for the horsemen is to control the direction.

As for the mode of transportation designed for people of a certain status and economic power, it was the sedan chair. Compared with the car and horse, the sedan chair is more stable and comfortable. In addition, it can reflect the status of the sedan chair. Therefore, there is a stricter hierarchy, roughly divided into official sedan chair, wedding sedan chair, civil sedan chair and soul sedan chair. Official sedan chair specifications, the number of people carrying the sedan chair has strict limits. Sedan chair is a traditional wedding sedan chair to take the bride to her husband's home. The civil sedan chair is similar to today's cab, charge. Soul sedan chair is for the dead to ride to the underworld to report, one is the eldest grandson of the deceased to ride, the second is the use of the deceased, this kind of soul sedan chair for the deceased to use in the end to be burned. The biggest disadvantage of the sedan chair is that it is slow and only suitable for short distance travel.

This was roughly the case for transportation on land, but when it came to the water, boats were needed. Wooden boats began to rely on manual paddling, our ancestors have long used the canoe and raft. And has been ahead of the world, the Qin and Han Dynasties, Qin Shi Huang organized a large fleet of ships capable of transporting 500,000 stone grain. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the technology was more mature, and the wooden craft of mortise and tenon jointing and nailing was widely used in shipbuilding. In the Ming Dynasty, China saw the Zheng He Treasure Ship. It was the largest wooden sailing ship in the world at that time. But these techniques because of the prohibition of the sea, the dissipation of the late lag behind the West.

As for the others, categories such as earthbound techniques, shrinking the ground into an inch, flying in the clouds, five elements of the recluse, the divine line of the divine line of Tai Zong Dai Zong is too powerful, ordinary people can not touch, not to mention.

Above. Ancient people's travel is so difficult, but can not forget to read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, we modern people and what reason to stay at home? Go out more to see the great beauty of our country, life is better.

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