[Original] Selected Wuchuan Culture-Dansha Culture (1)

Wuchuan has been an ancient county of Dansha since ancient times.

This is also the place where cinnabar was first discovered and refined.

Dansha is the main mineral raw material for extracting mercury.

Or Chinese herbal medicine

It has sedative, tranquilizing and bactericidal effects.

China used it as the main raw material of an alchemist in ancient times.

Do you know where "The Son of Heaven and the Genie on Earth" describes people?

Do you know what cinnabar meant to people in ancient times?

Do you know which nation first discovered, used and refined cinnabar?

Those who have these honors are all Wuchuan people. At that time, it was not called Wuchuan people, but ordinary people.

? According to legend, in ancient times,

People regard the ancestors of the Gelao people who live on both sides of the Hongdu River in Wuchuan as gods.

They are described as children in heaven and elves among human beings.

I think cinnabar is a gift from God, and I respect it very much.

They think that getting cinnabar is a gift from God.

It is believed that there is an elixir of life on the mountain where cinnabar is produced.

Introduction of cinnabar composition

Cinnabar, also known as Cinnabar and Cinnabar, is a sulfide mineral of mercury.

It contains 86.2% mercury and is the main mineral raw material for extracting mercury.

Its crystal is also an important material of laser technology, belonging to the tripartite system.

Uniform and multi-image, with black Cinnabar of equiaxed crystal system.

Often rhombic or short column-shaped; Ordinary penetrating twin

Perfect splitting of parallel cylinders

Aggregates are granular, massive or membranous.

Mohs hardness is 2.5 and specific gravity is 8. 10.

Pure cinnabar is diamond luster and vermilion.

Glossy when it contains impurities.

It is a typical low-temperature hydrothermal mineral.

The discovery of cinnabar-the role of exorcism

About the Neolithic Age, a Pu man named Orfila and several young people went out hunting and met a wild animal. Several people hunted wild animals, and the wild animals fought back. Wu Xin accidentally fell into a red puddle when she ran away. Hearing this, Wu Xin blushed. Wild animals were very scared when they saw it. When he ran away, he fell into a rock and died.

Wu Xin and others realized that the beast was afraid of blushing. In the later hunting process, he blushed for the beast. Every time the beast dare not move, Wu Xin and others are full of gains, and they are flushed when fighting with others behind them, and they always win. This is the discovery of cinnabar. After hundreds of years of application, it finally evolved into an auspicious sacred object and became one of the top things.

Ancient Nuo masks had certain requirements for coloring. In masks, red and yellow are the main colors, while in ancient times, red was cinnabar, yellow was realgar, and red and yellow became common colors. The colors are bright and harmonious. The contrast of color tones reflects the relationship between the color concept of folk artists and the good and evil in people's hearts, and reflects people's worship of God and aesthetic taste.

Medicinal efficacy of cinnabar

In modern clinical medicine, cinnabar can be used to treat restless mind, palpitation and insomnia, sore and swelling, sore throat, sore mouth, convulsion, epilepsy, wind-evil dysentery, and various hematemesis. Cinnabar can improve eyesight, treat blurred vision, treat postpartum mania, treat mental disorder, palpitation, insomnia and so on.

Although cinnabar has a variety of medicinal effects, it should be noted that cinnabar should not be taken for a long time. Cinnabar is evil and afraid of salt water. Cinnabar should not be calcined with fire. Cinnabar brine

Dansha can scare off enemy soldiers.

According to Liu Zhuang's Xia Shu, Kong Jia, the king of Xia in the summer of 14, was ignorant and good at ghosts and gods. He listened to Liu Lei's slanderers, saying that eating Pu's meat can prolong life, that is, catching Pu's daughter to eat, and later having diarrhea because of eating human flesh.

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He suspected that King Hannan had poisoned him, just to kill King Hannan. King Hannan's men swarmed around Kong Jia, and later the Pu people rescued him. But he is ungrateful to the rescuer, but he still wants to eat the meat of Punv. Pu Wang was very angry and ordered Kong Jiaqiang to be sent back to North Korea. After Kong Jia returned to Korea, he ordered to kill the Pu people who escorted him back to Korea. Later, the Pu people blushed with cinnabar and made strange noises, which frightened Xia Bing.

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Discovery and application of mercury

About 4000 years after the discovery of cinnabar, during the Taiwu period of Shang Dynasty, a man named Ghost Note lit a fire in his room in Daping Town, Wuchuan County. Because there was too much firewood and the fire was too fierce, he was afraid of burning down the house. In desperation, he piled Zhu's corpse on the firewood in the house to suppress the fire. Mercury was found after the firewood was burned. Later, because adults and children ate mercury by mistake, they cured their sores and discovered the use of mercury?

Modern mercury has a wide range of functions, such as thermometers, mercury switches, pesticides, preservatives in the production of chlorine and potassium hydroxide, electrodes, batteries and catalysts in some electrolytic equipment, dentistry and so on. , can kill insects and attack poison. It has great medicinal value for treating scabies, syphilis, malignant sores, hemorrhoids and mercury, and can be used for treating scabies, dry tinea, heat scabies, vitiligo and body odor.

Mercury is a toxic product, which should not be taken orally, especially for pregnant women, and should not be used excessively or for a long time to avoid poisoning.

Cinnabar and mercury have medicinal effects, but they should not be used blindly. You must follow the doctor's advice.

The Origin of Beauty Mole-Beauty Efficacy

Xia Jie, the last king of Xia Dynasty, was even more dissolute, and most vassal states did not worship him, including Dayuan. So Wang Xia got up and attacked Pu, but was defeated by Pu people. He was still unwilling, and then attacked the weak stone clan. The Shi clan could not defeat the Xia Dynasty, so they had to marry their own beautiful girl. He had a good time with her all day, and did not engage in politics, which made everyone want to kill her.

A man named Guo Qing planned to kill Sister Xi, and she was taken in. As soon as she arrived at Guo Qing's residence, Sister Xi was surrounded by people trying to kill her, and her guards gave their lives to protect her. At this moment, Guo Qing shouted, "Sister Xi has a mole on her forehead. Whoever kills her will be rewarded. At this time, Sister Xi's maid and Sister Xi changed their clothes and ordered a mole on their forehead, while Sister Xi used the cinnabar she carried with her. "

When Sister Xi returned to the palace, Wang Xia saw that the mole between her foreheads turned into a red one, which made her feel more beautiful and moving. It's called a beauty mole. Since then, people have used cinnabar to order beauty spots. Later, Sister Xi did not thank her maid for saving herself, but thought that cinnabar brought her good luck, let her escape from death and set up a shrine for cinnabar.

Sister Xi

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Besides the above functions, cinnabar?

You can also use lucky one to write, draw and draw symbols.

Friends who drive can also hang cinnabar in their cars, which can help them concentrate and ward off evil spirits.

Cinnabar painting, cinnabar inkstand, cinnabar Qizhi, cinnabar opening, cinnabar painting symbol, cinnabar pendant, etc.

There are countless functions of cinnabar, not only in beauty beauty.

In modern applications, it is used in various handicrafts.

If you also like cinnabar crafts and ornaments.

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After reading the introduction of cinnabar's function

Only to find out that Gup people are very smart.

We can find such an important thing from our daily life and work.

Bring wealth to future generations

I have heard a saying before: the thinking of predecessors is the ladder of future generations.

Because their discovery has brought us countless conveniences and wealth.

This is only part of the Dansha culture.

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The next issue will introduce the development of cinnabar.

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