The head of the gun, the horse jumps, and the chess has the word "gun" and "cannon". What does "gun" mean?

The Millennium ancient city wall has always been one of the landmark buildings in Zhengding County, Hebei Province. 1600 For more than 600 years, Zhengding, Hebei Province has always been the seat of government, state, county and county, and was once called the "Three Xiongzhen in the North" with Beijing and Baoding. The existing city wall in Zhengding is a relic of the Ming Dynasty. Its plane is in the shape of an official hat, full in the northwest and slightly lacking in the southeast, taking the meaning of "the sky is full of the northwest and the land is lacking in the southeast" in the Book of Changes. This kind of feng shui has the saying that "being an official for a long time, there are many nobles".

There is an antique iron cannon on the south gate wall of Zhengding, and tourists often stop to take pictures in front of it. The south gate wall has also become a punching place for online celebrities to shoot videos. It is the basic formula of China's chess. Chess is a traditional puzzle game in China. According to legend, there were records about chess in the pre-Qin period. There are two words "cannon" and "cannon" in chess. Why do you use it together?

There are "guns" on the red side of the chessboard and "guns" on the black side. "Gun" refers to artillery, so what does "gun" mean? The cannon next to the stone word actually appeared earlier than the cannon next to the fire word. The cannon is actually a trebuchet. The trebuchet weapon has been used in the military since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

"Gun" is a pictophonetic character. Xiao Zhuan caught fire and made a sound. After writing "Cannon" in regular script, it was officially revised. The original meaning of "cannon" is to wrap hairy meat in mud and barbecue it on the fire. Pronounced as páo, it is a way of eating and cooking. After the appearance of artillery, it extended to the machine stone issued by the trebuchet, which was pronounced "ao". Now it refers to heavy weapons, such as "cannon" and "rocket launcher". Also refers to firecrackers. Such as "firecrackers".

The word "cannon" in chess in China today was first written as "cannon", but in the Song Dynasty, the word "cannon" and "cannon" were used together. This phenomenon may be due to the widespread use of fire in the Song Dynasty. In fact, the word "cannon" and "cannon" coexist in China chess, which truly reflects the characteristics of the times when cold weapons and firearms are used together.

One nitrate, two sulfonates and three carbons is a common sense known to many children. China is the first country in the world to make a fire agreement. According to records, firecrackers were called "blasting poles" in the Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, some people put saltpeter into bamboo tubes and set it off. This is the earliest prototype of saltpeter firecrackers. Later, people filled bamboo tubes with saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal and burned them, resulting in an "explosion".

In the books of the middle Tang Dynasty, there have been records of fire conventions (recipes). By the end of the Tang dynasty, the fire moon had been used in the military. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, fire weapons were widely used in the war, mainly muskets, artillery, rockets and so on. At that time, this kind of artillery was called "ware", mostly made of copper, and fired solid projectiles with fire. Because this weapon is similar to the trebuchet on the battlefield, it is also used for siege and defense, so people also call it "cannon" or "cannon".

The Covenant of Fire, invented by China people, was spread to the west and entered Europe by Arab merchants in the Southern Song Dynasty. Although China people were the inventors of the fire moon, they failed to produce modern science and society. However, since the mid-Ming Dynasty in the16th century, they have been stagnant in the fire moon and firearms, lacking innovation, and obviously lagging behind Europe, so they introduced firearms from Europe, such as French machines, shotgun, Hony cannon and so on. After the Qing Dynasty, firearms technology rose and fell, which widened the gap with Europe again and was bullied by foreign powers.

Lu Xun said in the article "Advantages and Disadvantages of Electricity": "Foreign countries use compasses to sail, but China uses them to see Feng Shui; ..... "To understand China's ancient scientific and technological inventions, how should we understand Lu Xun's words? Some netizens said that Lu Xun wrote this sentence mainly because of the influence of the social environment at that time, which was intended to alert people. Some netizens also said that without intellectual property protection as the basis, scientific and technological innovation will lack sustained motivation, and technological progress and institutional progress are indispensable. I hope the future of our great motherland will be better and better! (Wang Jianan Photography)