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Chapter 419 The Spinning Top 7000 Years Ago

It's like the guy who invented the mini bomb was actually inspired by the aborigines blowing arrows.

So when Bai Lixiu asked the prince this question, the prince naturally couldn't answer, after all, there was nothing around him to inspire him.

But the prince is also a person who knows how to watch words and expressions, after all, he doesn't know how to watch words and expressions, and Zhu Yuanzhang will not let him be the prince for so many years, so I saw the prince smiled wryly and then bowed to Bailixiu in the same way. :

"Biao, I'm so stupid that I really can't think of a way for you to increase the accuracy of the lead bullets of the firecracker. Please tell me clearly!"

In fact, Bailixiu also knew that Zhu Biao would come to this trick [-]% to [-]%, but the main purpose of Bailixiu was to let Zhu Biao and the blacksmiths in the blacksmith shop understand the principle, instead of knowing it but not knowing it. That's why.

Therefore, Bailixiu naturally remained the same, first she took the Xingyun carving knife and cut a top, and then made the top spin rapidly on the ground with a shake of her hand.

Bai Lixiu looked at the top spinning in place, and asked Zhu Biao:
"His Royal Highness, what can you see from the spinning top?"

Naturally, Zhu Biao recognized the spinning top that Bailixiu made, because Zhu Biao had played with it when he was a child, and the history of the spinning top was much older than the vernier calipers, and it was something even older than the Xia Shang era.

The origin of the spinning top has never been verified.It can be said that it originated very early in both the East and the West, and it has been found in other continents except Antarctica. The World Book Encyclopedia puts it this way: "No one knows exactly when people first played with tops. But children in ancient Greece played with tops, and in the East, tops have been a public entertainment for hundreds of years. In the nineteenth century Many orientals have become skilled top spinners. They have a variety of tricks to play tops, such as running and climbing on inclined boards.

There are different opinions about the origin of the spinning top.In the Neolithic Age, there was a spinning tool—the spindle. People speculate that the top may have developed from it, because the spindle will make a unique and interesting turning motion when it falls on the ground, so it is used as a toy.

In 5000, Li Ji, the first modern archaeologist in China, discovered a pottery spinning top in the Yangshao Cultural Site in Xiyin Village, Xia Xian, and it was determined to be a relic before [-] BC.

Then in the 70s, archaeologists unearthed a total of 42 spinning tops at the Hemudu site on the Cicheng Plain in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, including four made of pottery and 38 made of wood.According to the determination of carbon 14, it originated from the Hemudu culture around 5000 BC.

Judging from the archaeological materials that have been discovered so far, the spinning top in the Hemudu Culture is the earliest in the world.Spinning tops have been unearthed in the tombs of the Five Forts in Hami, Xingjiang, and the Tianluoshan site in Zejiang.

Even in the 21st century, archaeologists discovered a site of the late Longshan Culture in Wunvzhong Village, Luoyang. The most worth mentioning is a stone spinning top, which is very similar in size and shape to modern spinning tops, with a diameter of about five centimeters and a height of about 7 Seven centimeters and weighs less than three hundred grams.It can be seen that the spinning top may have been a common entertainment toy in the homes of the ancestors since ancient times, even though the living conditions were extremely difficult.

当然除了华夏，陀螺在世界各地的考古中均有大量发现。如在伊拉巴格达东南约300千米的乌尔镇就发现了公元前三千500年的陶土陀螺；在特洛伊也发现了公元前3000年的陶土旋转物；在唉及发现了公元前一千400年左右的木雕陀螺；在西腊底比斯发现了公元前1000两百50年的陶土陀螺。大约公元前500年的希腊陶器上，饰有旋转陀螺的画面。

In addition, there are also rich records about spinning tops in western classic literature.Homer's epic "Iliad" described Hector who was hit by a stone: "...he whirled like a top." Plato's "Utopia" used the top movement to illustrate Motion and immobility.Aristophanes, the king of ancient Greek comedy, wrote in the comedy "Bird": "This will give you wings, and today I will make you spin like a top." The ancient Roman poet Virgil wrote in the epic poem "Aeneas" Ji also wrote about the spinning top: "... just like sometimes a group of children playing games beat a spinning top with a whip in a big empty room, and watch it circle around the room with all their attention. Whip and whip, and go round and round..." In Shakespeare's "The Wind and Wives of Windsor," Falstaff says, "I have never tasted again since I was a child stealing geese, learning, and spinning tops. The taste of being beaten."

Of course, there are texts describing spinning tops in the West, and naturally there are texts describing spinning tops in the East. The earliest written description of spinning tops is written in the Northern Wei Dynasty Jia Sixie's "Qi Min Yao Shu Planting Elm and Poplar": "The scorpion is the sole joy and the cup." The famous agricultural history Jia Miao Qiyu explained: "'Dule' means 'gyro', a toy for children." But the name "Dule" has been revised repeatedly in our country.

Yuan Jie, a writer of the Tang Dynasty, recorded in the article "Evil Circle": "Yuanzi's family has a nursing mother, who is a round-turning device, to please the baby, and the baby likes it. The mother makes it a joy to gather children and help the baby..." This "" "Circular turning device", which can produce the effect of "gathering children and children", is the hand spinning top and the like.

Zhou Mi of the Song Dynasty recorded in "Old Stories of Wulin" written by recalling the past of Lin'an City: "There are so many famous things in Ruofu's children's play, especially not all of them. Such as Xiangying ginkgo, guessing candy, blowing children, beating love, and thousands of chariots. , roulette.” Among them, Qianqianche, according to textual research, is a kind of aristocratic game similar to a spinning top played by court ladies to pass the time. A needle-shaped object about three centimeters long is placed in an ivory disc, Twist it with your hand to make it rotate, and then flick it with your sleeve when it stops quickly, let it continue to rotate, and the one who spins the longest is the winner.

The term "gyro" did not appear until the Ming Dynasty and became an official word.In the book "Scenery of the Imperial Capital" co-authored by Liu Tong and Yu Yizheng, there is a folk song recorded: "Yangliuer is alive, spin the top. Yangliuer is green, let the empty bell go. Yangliuer is dead, kick the shuttlecock." Specifically The way to play is: "The top is made of wood like a small empty clock, solid in the middle but without a handle, wrapped around a whip rope without a bamboo ruler. It is outstanding on the ground, pull the whip quickly, and once you pull it, the top will turn silently. It whips slowly, turning without going back. Turning fast, just like standing on the ground, the top light rotates, and the shadow does not move." This is almost exactly the same as the modern whip spinning top.It can be seen that the spinning top has become a popular toy in the Ming Dynasty, and it is closely related to the custom of spring outing.

So Zhu Biao was not very surprised when he saw the spinning top that Bailixiu made, even Bailixiu called it a spinning top and Zhu Biao didn't show any difference.

But after Zhu Biao heard Bailixiu's words, he looked at the spinning top seriously and fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)