Daily necessities and travel equipment of the ancients

Daily necessities The ancient travel equipment is as follows:

Clothes, mud shoes, raincoats, bamboo hats, quilts, pillows, hand towels, foot towels, toiletries, scissors, combs, candles, Xie Clogs, carriages, cakes and bait, tea leaves, chess pieces, folding chess boards and traditional Chinese medicine.

Before ancient people went on a trip, they first had to do divination and choose a good time. Divination before traveling can be traced back to the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The main thing is that after divination, good luck will lead to action, and bad luck will lead to avoidance. After all, for ancient people, walking that far was still risky. Especially today, it seems that we can meet close friends in the mountains and rivers. In the past, it was difficult and dangerous.

Li Bai once said: "Hey, how dangerous it is! The road to Shu is as difficult as climbing to the sky." After the divination, there are sacrifices, and then there is the Li Banquet. What is the Li Yan Banquet? A farewell feast is a farewell feast. Du Fu said in his poem "Presenting Suzhou Li to the Twenty-Fifth Chief of History and Literature": "The hair among the guests is the whitest, and I am melancholy when I leave the banquet."?

Dong Jieyuan also wrote in "The Romance of the West Chamber": " The banquet is over, there is no point in lingering any longer. "It means that after you finish your drink, it's time to hit the road.

Of course, when the ancients traveled, there was also a custom of breaking willows and giving them away. Folding willows first appeared in Han Yuefu's "Song of Folding Willows". The word "break willow" means "to cherish the long journey". It means to break a willow branch and give it to the traveler. It is said that "liu" and "liu" are homophonic.