The Book of the Later Han Dynasty describes him as a man of all ages and six arts, with a quiet personality and a low profile. I think this is probably the * * * nature of all the great scientists. Just because I am proficient in Yangyang, astronomy and calendar calculation, I know how small human beings are, and I am humbly in front of the vast void and the boundless unknown.
Only people like the romantic Li Bai can write down their wild desires for the bright moon in the blue sky. Zhang Heng can never write it.
He loves to read the Xuan Jing. From Yang Xiong's Xuan Jing, he also figured out that metaphysics should rise in the 4th year of the Han Dynasty. Han is 4 years old, and Xuan is very popular.
The fact is that the Western Han Dynasty ended in 2 and the Eastern Han Dynasty ended in 2, and the politics of Wei and Jin Dynasties were relatively dark. The famous officials in that period, such as Ruan Ji and Ji Kang, were not complacent and carefree with their hands. Zhang Heng's number of 4 years is very accurate. Calculate the year when the life of the Han Dynasty is over.
Speaking of the Xuanjing, Li Bai has a chivalrous line-who can write your Excellency, Bai Shou Xuanjing. In fact, these two sentences are derogatory, and they are written every day, which is useful and reflects the heroic spirit of chivalrous young people who kill one person in ten steps. In Jin Yong's chivalrous journey, Shi skyshatter became a super-boss by understanding the supreme martial arts cheats of Taixuan Classic on Chivalrous Island.
above, it belongs to idle articles.
Zhang Heng's literary talent is also super high. It took him ten years to write in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, imitating Ban Gu's grammar and writing Er Jing Fu. Heng Nai plans to ban Gu's "Two Capitals" and write "Fu on the Second Capital", because of his satirical admonition. If you think carefully, you will be successful in ten years.
it's auspicious without regret, simple and elegant. I was bathed in Qingyuan, and I was born in Chaoyang. There is no harsh word for divination, so choose auspicious day to pack your bags. I bathe in clear water in the morning and dry my hair in the sunrise. Rinse your mouth with the trickle of the flying spring and chew the dew of Ganoderma lucidum on the stone. Birds fly high and fish jump, I will roam far and wide
-reading it against the translation, I feel very similar to Li Sao, which is related to Qu Yuan's "Drinking Mulan in the morning and dew in the evening, autumn chrysanthemum in the evening".
Before Zhang Heng wrote Si Xuan Fu, he was promoted to Shi Zhong, who was equivalent to the emperor's personal adviser and half a prime minister. The emperor asked him what the world hated, and the eunuchs beside him stared at him for fear of his nonsense. Zhang Heng can only prevaricate at random. But still unable to hold the suspicion of eunuchs, he was slandered many times. Try to ask those who are ill and evil in the world. Eunuchs are afraid that they will destroy themselves, and they all look at it, and the balance is paradoxical. I am afraid that I will eventually suffer from castration, so I will swear it.
In fact, young talents in ancient times, just like modern people, felt helpless and their lives were impermanent in the same way. What should I do if I don't stay for a long time, and I only care about the Qing Dynasty? The reality is too chaotic, so you have to suffer whether you hit it or not. Nowadays, young people play games, in which they go into the sky and change their gorgeous skin. The network provides another face and personality subversion. Someone told me that games are another world. One day before 19, Zhang Heng looked up at the Milky Way, and when they were worried, they wrote this mysterious poem. This is their way of confrontation, creating a world of playing with Lagerstroemia Star, Queen E, Dragon, and me, expressing their disgust and alienation from the real world.
Back to Zhang Heng's seismograph,
It's made of fine copper, with a diameter of eight feet, covered with a bulge, shaped like a wine statue, and decorated with the shape of a turtle, a bird and a beast in seal script. Among them, there are all pillars, eight roads, and the engine is shut down. There are eight dragons outside, the first one is a copper pill, and the next one is a toad. Open your mouth and accept it. Its teeth are skillfully made, all hidden in respect, and the coverage is endless. If there is a ground motion, the venerable one will make the dragon machine vomit pills, while the toad will take them. The vibration is so exciting that the waiter is aware of it. Although Yi Long started the engine, but seven songs didn't move, finding its aspect is the place to know the earthquake.
The above is the original text of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. I don't want to translate it because it is easy to understand. I like the conciseness of the classical Chinese master.
Zhang Heng's name is Ping Zi, and his good friend Cui Yuan (yes, Cui Yuan, the great calligrapher who writes excellent cursive script) commented: Ping Zi is poor in mathematics and makes good fortune. It is said that Zhang Hengtong's mechanism of heaven and earth is the same as nature. Contemporary people are so boastful that they seriously doubt that Zhang Heng has made other clever little things besides the seismograph, but they have not been handed down.
In ancient times, mathematics, science and technology, cleverness and the like were actually despised. The Book of Rites says, "Virtue goes up and art goes down." It means that those who have achieved virtue are in the upper position and those who have achieved skill are in the lower position. Although the Book of the Later Han Dynasty highly praised Zhang Heng's achievements, the fact is that the whole Zhang Hengchuan focuses on his exhortation to the emperor, his superb level of ci and fu, and his deeds of collecting historical materials as an official and writing "Han Ji" in Dongguan. The length of the seismograph is limited to the spicy ones I picked above.
In addition to agriculture, astronomical calendars and moon orders are recorded a little more because they are needed by farming society in China. It seems that there are really few other natural sciences, and small inventions and institutions are also considered to be clever tricks, which are not on the table.
well, I'm a little reluctant. Our ancestors were so clever. Less literati, words are trapped and trapped in the mind. A little more scientists, a real talented person with poor math skills. Hopefully.
Zhang Heng died at the age of sixty-two. There is no special explanation in the later Han Dynasty, so it should be a happy ending.