How heavy was the fate of ancient times? How high is seven feet? Is fighting wine a huge amount? The difference between a group of pictures to restore ancient and modern weights and measures

Welcome to the guide. The history of China has lasted for thousands of years, which is not only a process of unification of this land, but also a process of multi-cultural crystallization, including the constant unification of measurement units throughout the ages. However, in the process of contact with history, influenced by film and television dramas, the perception of historical measurement units often comes from film and television actors and props. For example, the audience's cognition of Guan Yu's height almost comes from the film and television image of actor Lu Shuming; However, the units of measurement conveyed in Historical Records are not very intuitive. For example, what was the figure of a seven-foot man in ancient China? Still stay in the literal meaning. Based on this background, this paper selects some typical examples to make us form a more intuitive perception of ancient units of measurement in order to attract more attention. Welcome to add, and please correct me. Unit of weight: Can a tripod really crush people to death? Weights and measures were born out of the end of primitive society and developed into a system in the Zhou Dynasty. However, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this system was very chaotic because countries cleaned up their own doors. It was not until Qin Shihuang established hegemony that a unified standard was established. Take the weight unit as an example. During the Warring States period, Qin first realized the unification of internal weights and measures under the drastic measures of Shang Yang, and finally was completely unified by Qin Shihuang in territory, covering units such as baht, Liang, Jin, Jun and Shi. Although some of these words are still used, they are not the same. Qin Wuwang is a famous weightlifter, and finally he devoted himself to this cause. When mentioning his name, more people pay attention to his death because of lifting the tripod. How much does this dragon-shaped red tripod weigh? There has been no conclusion. The history books only recorded this matter, without mentioning its weight. However, the historical records of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty described it vividly (romantic) and called it "a thousand times heavier". What kind of concept is this? Is it true?/You don't say. "Thousand fates" is converted into 30,000 Jin at that time, and 1 Jin is about 250 grams in our modern times. If Qin Wuwang can lift a 7,500kg tripod off the ground with his flesh and blood, it is almost equivalent to lifting three BMW 6 cars. The ancients kept us in the dark, so when reading ancient books, we had to keep our eyes open and pay attention to the description of these weight units. In fact, many ancient ding have been unearthed in our archaeological work. Take the world-famous Simu Wuding as an example. Its actual weight is more than 800 kilograms, which even world-class weightlifters can't lift. The conversion of weight in each historical period is different, such as the dragon crescent moon blade in the novel. According to Luo Guanzhong, 82 kg should be about 23 kg today, so you can compare it yourself. Length unit: Is seven feet tall a good figure? Different from imperceptible weight units, length units often have more visual impact, because height is a good embodiment. When introducing a person in ancient books, his height is often mentioned, but his weight is rarely mentioned. So what kind of figure is the most frequently mentioned "seven feet" height? Is there a certain consistency between the height of actors in film and television images and historical figures? On the whole, since ancient times, the number of centimeters represented by a foot has been a growing process, so the "seven-foot man" described in different periods is not all the same height. For example, the seven-foot man in the Qin Dynasty was actually one meter tall and six heads, which was not as big as expected. If such a description happened in the Ming Dynasty, seven feet would be an amazing height of about 224 cm, which is more than enough to play NBA today. So what's the difference between actors in film and television dramas and real historical figures? Here we try to show you with pictures. Zhuge Liang, played by Tang Guoqiang, has long been loved by the audience. According to the records of the Three Kingdoms, Kongming is eight feet tall, which can make up for the appearance of a person who is 1.93 meters high shaking his fan and talking leisurely. The image of the Monkey King passed to us by a six-year-old male teacher on the screen is the memory of a generation. Interestingly, in the original book, Niu Wangmo once laughed at Monkey's height of less than four feet. If this book was written in the Ming Dynasty, the height of the Great Sage is less than 1m 3, and it is even lower if it is calculated in the Tang Dynasty. Space is limited, you can calculate the height of other historical figures by yourself, and you will often find unexpected things. Capacity unit: How many jars of wine did you drink in ancient times count as Shanghai? Wine culture is an important part of China history. Where there is wine, there are often poems, and where there is wine, there are often rivers and lakes. Therefore, when we talk about capacity units, wine is the best object. When worshipping ancestors at ordinary times, it is indispensable to burn incense and paper, but this happened here in Li Bai. Li Bai was deeply admired by later generations. Every year, a large number of people come to Li Bai's grave to remember him. Everyone knows that my brother loves wine, and all netizens are very filial. So Li Bai's grave can be said to have all kinds of wine. Du Fu once described Li Bai as "a hundred poems about fighting wine", so is it really a Shanghai quantity? According to the weights and measures of the Tang Dynasty, fighting wine is 10 liter, which is about 6000 ml today. Let's take a bottle of 750 ml standard wine as an example. Regardless of the degree of ancient wine, "Doujiu" is just 8 bottles! Coincidentally, Liangshan heroes in Water Margin are also a group of wine country heroes. How about their drinking capacity? When we open the books, it is not difficult to find that when the hero greets the bartender to pour wine, he usually takes "several corners" as the line, among which Song Jiang asks for "one corner" and Lu asks for "four corners". In the ancient system, 4 liters was raised to 1 min, so our conversion work was relatively simple. According to the weights and measures of the Song Dynasty, Song Jiang's drinking capacity today is about 2808 ml, which is equivalent to the capacity of nearly 4 bottles of standard wine. Look at Lu's drinking capacity. Today, it is about 1 1232 ml, which can almost fill 15 wine bottles! As for how much you can drink, readers who are proficient in wine channels have a say. The beauty of weights and measures: the differences that lead us into a more vivid historical hall have created different historical landscapes. If you enter the history hall in a unique way, you will get a more vivid and intuitive feeling. In fact, not only the ancient weight, length and capacity are worthy of our study, but it is also very interesting and meaningful to transform the ancient money value into modern value. Through this transformation, it is equivalent to crossing into history in disguise and feeling the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the ancients at close range.