What is the most annoying thing in summer? I don't think it's high temperature, it's a mosquito. The poems in the Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda's "Music in the Forty-Five Rhymes" vividly illustrate the hatefulness of mosquitoes.
The ancients had a good way to pay for mosquitoes and were promoted to mosquito-affected areas in Africa by the United Nations Health Organization.
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Xiao Qiao is a demon, and he is ruthless.
Wet and dung sputum, rotified cockroaches.
At the beginning, Guo Yan was born, and he entered the original.
For example, if the flies are screaming, they will gather together.
Russia is a Yin Lei, a secret collection.
The mouth of the steel pin, the force hole smashed the clothes.
The snoring is first considered, and the meat is sucked.
The leopard is still undecided, and the Zhuo cone has gone deep.
The blood rises with the aunt, and the situation is very embarrassing.
Shen Yuyi is high and full of enthusiasm.
Jingjing purple crab eyes, dripping red rice grains.
Extricate and tired, crawling the tendon.
Jidong does not linger on the west.
The new buds rose and the stuns were stunned.
I went to sleep at night, and I sighed at the bed...
Fan Chengda’s long poem is too vivid. If he is not suffering from mosquito bites, he can’t write it. Today (2017.07.13), I read the "Beijing Evening News" exclusive column "Party Hook Shen", dedicated to writing an article about how the ancients used to drive out mosquitoes.
Modern methods for dealing with mosquitoes have been many and advanced, but in ancient times, mosquitoes were more threatening to humans because of the lack of modern hygiene conditions and the backwardness of technology. Therefore, people will take more active measures against mosquitoes, so how did the ancients repel mosquitoes? One of the most common means of expelling mosquitoes in modern times is to burn mosquito coils. Will the ancients do this?
According to historical records, the ancients also burned mosquito coils against mosquitoes, but the saying was different. The ancients called it "smoked."
Smoked, as the saying goes, "smoke and smoke", this is the earliest and most popular method for the ancients to deal with mosquitoes in summer, and it is also the most effective. Judging from the records of Zhou Li, the Wang family of the pre-Qin Dynasty used this method. In the book, "Zhu's" article: "When the scorpion is removed from the scorpion, it is attacked by yin [yíng]. Everything is going on."
He is responsible for deworming Zhou Wangjia. There are two ways to work. One is to pray for the gods to repel the insects, and the other is to ignite the weeds. The former is a superstition by the power of God. This is of course superstition, but if you burn the incense when praying for the gods, there will be an objective deworming effect. This is also the reason why the temple does not produce mosquitoes. The latter "smoked" is the most common method used by the ancients to deal with mosquitoes.
Use "smoke" means to repel mosquitoes, also known as "scented incense." Smoked in the pre-Qin period is widely used, including indoor environmental disinfection, astringency, clothing fragrance will be "smoked", even animals such as rats can be expelled by means of smoked. For example, the "July" poem in "The Book of Songs and Hurricane" is called: "The squirrel, the squirrel, the squirrel."
According to archaeological findings, there were specialized incense utensils 5,000 years ago. On the Hongshan Cultural Site of Niuheliang in western Liaoning, a gray pottery stove was unearthed. When it came to the Warring States Period, the incense utensils were not only beautiful, but also the principle of burning and smoking.
In 1965, the "Silver Eagle with the Covered Jade" from the San Han Tomb of Sanli Dun, Lishui County, Jiangsu Province, was a smoked stove of the shape of the jade in the Warring States Period. The jade was covered and seated, and the copper liner was placed in the middle. It became a high-grade "jade smoked stove". This smoked stove is now in the Nanjing Museum. There are still smoked remnants in the unearthed time. It should be the incense master's incense incense utility.
After the Qin and Han Dynasties, from the folk to the aristocratic family, to the beginning of incense. Nowadays, the “Boshan Furnace” that is common in the cultural relics market has appeared during this period. Of course, Boshan Furnace is not only used to smoke mosquitoes. Boshan Furnace is a kind of advanced smoked stove, also known as Boshan incense burner, Boshan aromatherapy, Boshan smoked stove, named for the legendary sea fairy mountain - "Boshan".
The function of Boshan furnace was indeed very advanced at that time. It is not backward today. It not only smokes mosquitoes, incense, but also humidifies the air to increase the persistence of aroma. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Lu Dalin's "Archaeological Map" has such a saying: "The incense burner is like Boshan in the sea, and the soup is steamed under the plate to make the steaming incense, like the four rings of the sea."
This kind of ancient incense utensils of the ancients today, soaring in value, some of the boutique value of the city, the most typical, is a wrong Jinboshan smoked stove dug out of the Mancheng Han tomb, has become the treasure of the museum town hall.
Later, the ancients used more and more incense, and they were more and more environmentally friendly. For example, during the Tang Dynasty, it was popular with "fire-and-smoke", no longer directly burning incense, heating through the fire-proof piece, but not allowing the smoke to emanate, driving away mosquitoes, modern electric mosquito coils facilitate the use of this principle.
Smoked, this method of eviction of mosquitoes, inspired the industrial design of modern insect repellent appliances. Nowadays, everyone burns mosquito-repellent incense and uses electric mosquito-repellent incense, which belongs to the “smoke” method. The only difference is that the use method is simpler, and the mosquito repellent raw material used is better.
Interestingly, in the African region where mosquito plague is high, the United Nations-sponsored health aid organization promotes and uses the “smoked mosquitoes” method invented by ancient Chinese to prevent the spread of dengue fever. The effect is very obvious.