What are the stories about flying in ancient China?

There is also a story in Shan Hai Jing, an ancient book in China: Once upon a time, there was a strange country in the west [jρ_ gūng Kigong]. People in that country can hunt birds and make flying cars. People can fly away in a speeding car with the wind. During the soup (1), the west wind blew, and foreigners and flying cars came; Ten years later, a shareholder wind blew people and flying cars back.

Mozi attached great importance to practice, and once made the instruments for guarding the city with his own hands, and his skills were superb. It is said that he led more than 300 disciples to study the principle of flying, and it took three years to make a flying wooden bird, which was called "bamboo ■[què que]" or "wooden kite [yuān injustice]" in ancient books.

This matter is recorded in many ancient books in our country. Some said, "Mozi is a wooden kite. It took three years to make it, and it was defeated (rotten) in one day." Some said: "Mozi cut bamboo for ■, and he can't fly for three days." Some people praised the wooden bird, saying that it reflected the highest level of production technology at that time. Some people laughed at Mozi, saying that he wasted three years to build a wooden bird, and it broke after flying for a day.

According to the materials recorded in ancient books, we can infer that it is a bird-shaped aircraft made of wood or bamboo. It can use the power of falling on a high slope or rely on wind to rise and fly in the air for a long time. This way of flying in the air by air buoyancy is called gliding. However, some people speculate that the wooden bird is made by imitating birds, so it may fly by flapping its wings instead of gliding. This way of flying with flapping wings is called flapping wing (also called flapping wing) flight. As for how big the wooden bird is, there is no clear record in ancient books. However, judging from the three years' painstaking research and trial production of 300 people, it can be inferred that the production scale of that wooden bird is relatively large, not just as big as a bird.

Rocket manned flight

In the Ming dynasty, rockets were not only used in the military field, but also tried manned rocket flight. Wan Hu (also known as "Wan Hu"), a scholar of Ming Dynasty in China, is regarded as the originator of rockets in the world and the pioneer of experimental air flight. On the basis of studying the ability of rockets to push objects up, Wan Hu made a chair that can fly to the sky. He installed the largest 47 rockets at that time at the back of the seat, tied himself in front of the seat, took a big kite in each hand, and then ignited the 47 rockets at the same time, hoping to fly forward with the help of the forward propulsion of the rockets and the rising power of the kite. Although the experiment was unsuccessful, he has been recognized as the first person in the world to try to fly by rocket. In memory of Wan Hu, people named the crater near the East China Sea on the back of the moon after him.