Why in ancient China was the road called Ma Lu

Because in ancient times there were no cars, only horses!

The true meaning of the word road:

The first statement:

As early as the end of the 18th century, the British Industrial Revolution led to the vigorous development of the entire British transportation industry, but the loess lanes commonly used in urban and rural areas at that time were far from meeting the requirements of the times.

There is an English designer named Ma Changdan, who designed a kind of gravel road that is easy to drain, the road surface is made of gravel extrusion, the ground is hard and flat, and the middle is high and the sides are low, suitable for motor vehicles, so this kind of road quickly became popular at that time. After Ma Changdan's death, people added his surname to the front of the road for the convenience of calling him and to commemorate him. At the beginning of the 19th century, after this method of paving was introduced to our country, its name evolved into "road", which has been handed down ever since.

The second way of saying: As the name suggests, the road is the road that the horse walks. In ancient times, there were no cars, only horse-drawn carriages, and the road where horse-drawn carriages took was naturally called a road.

The third way of saying: Western reporters: "In your China, why is the road called 'road' when it is obviously walked by people? Without thinking, he replied: "We are taking the road of Marxism, referred to as the road." ”

The reporter's intention was to compare the Chinese to cattle and horses, walking the same path as livestock. If you really go to him from the ** of the name "road", even if it is correct, it is meaningless. Interpreting the "horse" of "Ma Lu" as Marxism is probably something that this reporter did not expect.

A road refers to a wide and smooth road or highway for people or vehicles and horses to travel. Most of them are built by people for human use, and the main purpose is to facilitate human beings to engage in many production activities.

English Scotsman John Macadan (JohnLoudon McAdam devised a new method of road construction, paved with gravel, with a high middle of the road for easy drainage, and a flat and wide road surface. Later, the road was named "Macadam Road" after the surname of its designer (the gravel road was later renamed Macadam Road or Macadam for short).

At the end of the 19th century, China's coastal ports such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Fuzhou were opened, and the European and American powers built concessions in China, bringing the Western method of building the Makadan Road to China. At that time, the Chinese used the transliteration of the English "macadam makadan" as the abbreviation of the road, and later commonly known as "Ma Lu".

It's not a road walked by people, it's all a road walked by animals, so it's called a road.

The Marxist road is called the road.

Take the Marx route, so it's called the road!

Didn't the means of transportation in the past consist of horses and carriages?

At the end of the 18th century, Britain was in the midst of the industrial revolution, and the development of industry required higher and higher requirements for transportation.

In this case, the Englishman John Macadan devised a new method of road construction, paving the road with gravel, which was high in the middle to facilitate drainage, and the road surface was flat and wide. Later, this kind of road took the surname of its designer and named it "Makadan Road", or "Road" for short.

Because in ancient times, they all relied on horse-drawn carriages.

Because as early as ancient times, people used horses or carriages to travel, so the highway is also called the road

1. According to the dictionary, the road is a wide and smooth road for cars and horses to walk. Of course, not all roads are called roads. Where there are streets, there must be alleys, and the road is just a common name for a relatively wide passageway.

2. The road refers to the road that can be used for horses to gallop.

3, in fact, no one objected to this, "Zuo Chuan: Twenty Years of Zhao Gong": "Master Chu Shen met the Duke on the road and obeyed." It is the earliest record of the word road.

In ancient Yaoshun, the road was called Kangqu. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, people called the place where three carriages could pass called the road, the place where two carriages could pass was called the road, and the place where one carriage could pass was called the road, which was the road of the old ox cart, and the path was the country road that could only walk the cattle and horses.

4. After Qin Shi Huang unified China, the car was on the same track, and the road administration was prosperous, and the most spacious road was called Chi Dao, that is, the way of the Son of Heaven. In the Tang Dynasty, 50,000 miles of roads were built, which was called post roads. The Qin Dynasty Chidao has a unified quality standard:

The width of the road is 50 steps, about 70 meters; The roadbed should be higher than the ground on both sides to facilitate drainage, and the road surface should be tamped with an iron hammer; Plant a green pine every three zhang to think that it is a street tree; In addition to the road ** three zhang for the emperor's exclusive use, both sides also opened up a pedestrian sidewalk; A kiosk is built every 10 miles to serve as a pedestrian hailing station and a postal junction for the security management office in the section. These gallop roads, in layman's terms, are roads.