What are the daily necessities for the ancients to travel?

The daily necessities of ancient people's travel are as follows:

Before the ancient people travel, they should first divine and choose good times. Pre-trip divination can be traced back to the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Mainly after divination, good luck is good, and evil is avoided. After all, for ancient people, it was still risky to go that far. Especially today, it seems that we can meet the mountains and rivers of bosom friends. In the past, it was difficult and dangerous.

Li Bai once said, "Hey, hey, it's dangerous! It is difficult to go to the sky because of the difficulty of the road. " After divination, there is a sacrifice, followed by a farewell banquet. What is a farewell banquet? A farewell dinner is a farewell dinner. Du Fu said in the poem "Giving away the post of the twenty-fifth long history of Suzhou Li Wen": "The head of the guest room is the whitest, and I am disappointed to leave the banquet." ?

Dong Jieyuan also wrote in The Legend of the West Chamber: "The banquet is over, and there is no way to stay." It means that after drinking a little wine, you should be on your way.

Of course, when the ancients traveled, there was a custom of folding willows to give them away. Folding willow first appeared in the Song of Folding Willow in Han Yuefu. The word "breaking willows" implies "parting with nostalgia". Is to fold a wicker and give it to the traveler. It is said that it is because "Liu" and "Liu" are homophonic.

In addition to traveling carefully, the ancients needed to prepare a lot of things, including clothes, mud shoes, raincoats, hats, quilts, pillows, towels, foot towels, washing utensils, scissors, combs and candles.

There are also cake bait, tea leaves, chess pieces, folding chessboards and traditional Chinese medicines, such as cooked mugwort, rhubarb, mirabilite, licorice, dried ginger and Sichuan pepper. According to many medical books, these are "essential medicines for home travel", and most of them have the functions of fragrant resuscitation, removing filth and killing insects.

The luggage of Shen Kuo, a senior donkey friend, also includes pen and ink, inkstones, wine vessels, tea cups, axes, hoes, knives, oil drums and nothing (that is, urinals). Yes, urinal, you are right. Because many ancient inns didn't have special toilets, chamber pot was a must for travel.