First, clothing and nobility.
Why do people wear clothes? In addition to keeping warm and sunscreen to cover privacy, it is also to reflect status. There are three kinds of headdresses in ancient times: crown, tiara and bi à n. The tiara is a "hat" worn by aristocratic children. Shuowen said, "The crown is ugly."
The ancients tied the bun to the crown. At first, emperors, princes and doctors all wore crowns when offering sacrifices, so later the idiom "grandiose" came into being. "Crown" is used to mean "in the first place". Later, only the emperor was qualified to wear a crown. In ancient times, the top coat was a coat and the bottom coat was a petticoat. "The Book of Songs Li Feng Green Clothes" says: "Huang Shang is green." "The Book of Songs Qi Feng Oriental Unknown" says: "Upside down clothes." Clothes that are connected together are called deep clothes.
Second, food.
As the saying goes, eating more "whole grains" is good for health. Today, our five cereals are: "rice, wheat, soybeans, corn and potatoes." Ancient grain crops were divided into five grains, six grains and a hundred grains. The five grains are "millet (millet), millet (yellow rice), wheat, glutinous rice (beans) and hemp. Six grains have one more kind of" rice "than the five grains, because rice was originally a crop in the south and later spread to the north.
In ancient times, mutton was the most common meat, beef was precious, and dog meat, preserved meat and meat sauce were also used to make broth. In Mencius, "eat one bean soup at a time." Probably the same soup.
Third, the palace
Ancient houses were called palaces. Palace was an ordinary house in ancient times, and there was no distinction between high and low. It was only used in the palace after Qin and Han Dynasties. Ancient times paid attention to geomantic omen, so ancient houses generally sat facing south. This ethos has been applied by the public until now. Not only the house, but also the south when sitting in class, and the east when indoors. Most of our lives are the same now.
I have to say here that in ancient times, the wall-building technology was used very early, and the first thing that comes to mind must be the sentence "Fu Yueju is in the middle of the plate." This wall-building method has also been handed down by later generations, and it is still used by people to build walls, as well as ancient building methods, so I won't elaborate here.
Fourth, chariots and horses
As the saying goes, "a word from a gentleman is a promise." It can be seen that horses were widely used in ancient times. There is also a saying called "lead a cow and ride a horse". I also know that there is an ox cart next to the carriage. Carriage is a small car, which was used by ancient nobles to travel and fight, and ox cart is a big car, which is generally used to transport goods. What we misunderstand is that in ancient times, the carriage of a carriage was called Yu, and people stood in the Yu instead of sitting, which was called "longitudinal riding".
The ancients regarded the left as the respect, the middle as the ruler and the right as the companion. It is natural that the carriage can't run fast. During the Spring and Autumn Period, some people rode horses alone, but very few. Later, in the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao wore Hu clothes to ride horses and shoot arrows, and learned from the Huns to ride horses. Since then, cycling has become popular.