The role of fire and its significance in the history of human evolution

Provide mankind with cooked products, thus ending the history of raw food, the human organism and intelligence has been unprecedented development.

The earliest primitive man, who did not know how to utilize fire, ate everything raw, not only the fruits of plants, but also the beasts that hit him, which were eaten alive, even with their hair and blood.

Fireman's invention of artificial fire, with fire, mankind began to cook life, caused a great physiological change, so that mankind from the animals completely separated. The application of fire made human beings burn forests and hunt, and began to utilize nature to conquer nature, thus enriching human foodstuffs, which led to the further development of the organic structure of human flesh, and the structure of the brain became complex, and intelligence was brought into play.

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Ancient times, when people understood nature and attempted to categorize and summarize the phenomena, they often thought that fire was one of the most important things. when they tended to think of fire as one of the inseparable elements. The ancient Greeks believed that all the matter in the world was made up of a mixture of air, water, earth and fire in varying proportions.

Fire is also one of the five elements in traditional Chinese culture. The five elements are mutually reinforcing, in which wood begets fire, fire begets earth, water begets fire, and fire begets gold. C and D of the Heavenly Stem are fire. Chinese medicine often refers to fire (called heat in Cantonese) and removing fire, which was later found to be related to inflammation in Western medicine.

Chinese folklore in the discovery of fire Suiren's has been listed as one of the three emperors, ancient fire for the "essence of Yang".

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