The relationship between Taoism and the compass should be explained historically

The relationship between Taoism and the compass is not very clear, but from Sinan and the guide car, you can see a little bit of connection, you can see for yourself!

When it comes to the compass, many people will think of the story of the Yellow Emperor vs. Chiyou.

But in fact, the compass mentioned in the story is not a compass, and of course the Yellow Emperor is not the inventor of the compass. The legendary compass is a compass, not a compass.

The compass car uses gears to make the wooden fingers on the wooden car always point south, which has nothing to do with magnetism, while the compass has to be made by using the finger polarity of the magnet, and the two are completely different things.

The origin of the compass.

When it comes to the origin of the compass, we have to go back to the Warring States period, when there was a compass instrument called Sinan, which was the prototype of the compass.

During the Warring States Period, when jade mining workers went around to pick jade, they often needed to bring Sinan to help guide the direction. As for the shape and use of Sinan, according to the description of Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the book "On Balance", it should be carefully carved into the shape of a spoon with a natural magnet, and the south pole is located on the long handle of the spoon, and the center of gravity of the spoon needs to be placed in the center of the bottom during the carving process, plus the chassis carved on it by the four dimensions (i.e., Qian, Kun, Xun, Gen), Bagan (i.e., the heavenly stem of today), and the twelve branches (i.e., the earth branch of today) to form twenty-four directions.

The way to use it is to put the chassis in the right place first, and then put the Sinan on it to rotate, once the Sinan stops, the place where the long handle points is the south.

The invention of the compass.

There is no exact time and inventor of the invention of the compass, in the Northern Song Dynasty Zeng Gongliang's "Wujing General Essentials" has mentioned that the guide fish is used to help identify the direction when marching, as for the guide fish is a thin fish-like steel sheet, five minutes wide, two inches long, the belly is concave, the shape is like a boat, after the magnetization step, floating on the water surface can distinguish the north and south.

Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty recorded in the book "Mengxi Bi Tan" that later on the production method of the compass, and the world's earliest discovery of magnetic declination and artificial magnetization to make the compass, these three related records about the compass, in addition to recording the development at that time, Shen Kuo also compared the advantages and disadvantages of the production method, which became the best reference material for understanding the invention of the compass at that time.

The development of the compass.

When it comes to the development of the compass in general, it immediately conjures up images of the compass .

The so-called compass refers to the combination of a magnetic needle and an azimuth disk, which is also known as a compass disk, which appeared in China in the Southern Song Dynasty, and was called a snail at that time.

Compass According to the placement method of the magnetic needle in the azimuth disk, it is divided into two types: water needle and dry needle, which are described as follows

Water Needle Appearance date: Song Dynasty.

Method: The magnetic needle is placed on the azimuth plate by water floating.

Historical books prove: 1. Xu Jing's "Xuanhe Feng Envoy Gaoli Tianjing".

2. The so-called guide fish in "Shilin Guangji".

Dry needle appeared in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty.

How to make: If you don't use water floating, it is.

Historical books prove: 1. The guide turtle called in the "Shilin Guangji".

Taoism and the Three Great Inventions. The invention of gunpowder, the guiding needle, and the printing technique of the four great inventions of ancient China is closely related to Taoism. Gunpowder was invented by Taoism, Dr. Joseph Needham said

The earliest mention of gunpowder in any country in the world was a work entitled "The Essentials of the True Element."" 。The Essentials of the True Yuan Wonderful Path"There are those who burn it with sulfur, realgar, saltpeter and honey, and burn it with flames, and burn their hands and ember houses" ；Regarding the concentrator , Mr. Wang Zhenduo said:"In other words, no matter what the four types of devices were used in military navigation and illusion machines in the later world, it is believed that their inventions all originated with Taoism" ；Taoism has already used carving techniques to make Taoist books as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it is said in the Cave Xuan Lingbao Three Caves Worship Taoist Discipline Camp Beginnings:

One is a gold inscription, two are silver seals, three are flat engravings, and four are wooden letters" 。In the process of making and disseminating scriptures, Taoism made great contributions to the invention of printing techniques. The invention of the compass came from my Feng Shui ancestors.

Tofu and gunpowder are the most famous.

Gunpowder - Taoism, alchemy, because in ancient Chinese history, the emperor's desire to seek immortality and immortality was very strong;

Compass - only with Taoism.

A little relationship, that is, it is used in the phase of feng shui, in fact, it is related to the Book of Changes, the hexagram corresponds to the celestial phenomena and the terrain, and is used to determine the direction when divination;

Papermaking is purely because of the inconvenience of wood and bamboo, oracle bones, and silk silk as materials, and it has nothing to do with religion;

Printing is also driven by the need to be more efficient, and has nothing to do with religion.

Because the inspiration comes from God's revelation! God is the God of knowledge!

Gunpowder was invented by Taoist priests when they were refining pills.

The compass was discovered by Taoist priests or monks when they were looking at feng shui, and then it was used in the field of navigation, and I don't understand it.

Movable type printing doesn't seem to have much to do with religion...

Gunpowder – Taoism.

Compass – Feng Shui.

Paper and printing. I don't know...

Gunpowder copy - Taoism, alchemy, after the ancient Chinese history of the emperor Bai Shang's desire to seek immortal and longevity is very strong;

Compass - only has a little relationship with Taoism, that is, it is used in the phase of feng shui, in fact, it is related to the Book of Changes, the hexagram corresponds to the celestial phenomena and the terrain, and is used to determine the direction when divination;

Papermaking - because oracle bones, wood and bamboo, silk silk as materials have many inconveniences, and it is inconvenient to carry and store and the cost is high, so it came into being, and has nothing to do with religion;

Printing is due to the need to improve the efficiency of publications after the name of the paper law, and has nothing to do with religion.

Taoism Native to China is Taoism and Confucianism, and gunpowder is obvious

Sinan and compass are the early compasses in China.

Sinan is an instrument used to identify the direction in ancient China, and it is the invention of the ancient Chinese working people in the long-term practice of understanding the magnetic properties of objects.

The compass is mainly composed of a magnetic needle located on the disk** and a series of concentric circles, each of which represents the ancient Chinese understanding of a certain level of information in the large system of the universe.

The compass, called Sinan in ancient times, is mainly composed of a magnetic needle mounted on the shaft, the magnetic needle can rotate freely under the action of the natural geomagnetic field and remain in the tangent direction of the magnetic meridian, the north pole of the magnetic needle points to the north magnetic pole, and the direction can be identified by using this performance.

Compass: It is a simple instrument used to determine the direction.

Sinan: Sinan is the earliest compass invented in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China to indicate the north-south direction, and it is the first generation of compass. Sinan Among them, "Si" means "to refer".

Compass: The compass is the operating tool of the Li Qi sect, which is mainly composed of a magnetic needle located on the disk** and a series of concentric circles, each circle represents the ancient Chinese understanding of a certain level of information in the large system of the universe.

The compass consists of three main parts:

1. Tianchi: also called the bottom of the sea, which is also the compass. The Tianchi of the compass is composed of a thimble, a magnetic needle, a sea bottom line, a cylindrical outer box, and a glass cover, which are fixed on the inner disk**.

2. Inner disk: It is the disc that can be rotated immediately outside the compass. There are many concentric circles printed on the inner plate.

The outer plate is square, which is the tray of the inner plate, and there is a small hole in the middle point of each of the four outer sides, which penetrates the red line to become Tianxin Shidao, which is used to read the contents of the inner plate surface. The ten paths of Tianxin are required to be perpendicular to each other, and the new compass you just bought must be calibrated to the outer disk before you can use it.

The compass is actually a tool used to measure the square position of the ground using the principle of compass positioning, and the compass is used in feng shui for the grid, sand removal, water storage and determining the sitting orientation of buildings.

Sinan and the compass are the early compasses in our country, and the continuous development of the compass is what we now call the compass, which is a subordinate relationship from the classification of words.

The Chinese invention of the compass was called Sinan, and later the compass was used for navigation called the compass, and now it is generally called the compass.

Different names in the development of history.

Guide! Sinan is the earliest compass invented in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, and it is not a compass.

As early as more than 2,000 years ago in the Han Dynasty (206 BC and 220 AD), the Chinese discovered that a stone on the mountain had the magical property of absorbing iron, and found that a long stone could guide the north, and they called this stone magnet. Ancient skilled craftsmen polished and chiseled the magnet into a spoon shape, and the south pole (S pole) of the magnet was ground into a long handle, placed on a smooth mirror-like chassis made of bronze, and then cast with directional carvings. When this magnetic spoon stops rotating on the chassis, the direction of the spoon handle is due south, and the direction of the spoon mouth is due north, which is the world's earliest instrument invented by our ancestors to indicate the direction, called Sinan.

Among them, "division" means "to refer to".

According to the records in the book "Han Feizi" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the book "On Balance" written by the thinker Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, as well as the research of modern scientific stone examiners and the Sinan model made, it is shown that Sinan is made of natural magnets (known as Cishi in ancient times, and the phenomenon of magnet iron absorption is described with love) to make a soup spoon, and its spoon handle indicates the south. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there are records about Cishi in the book "Guanzi" and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", and in the book "Guiguzi" and "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" in this period, there are further records of Cishi absorbing iron. This is arguably the earliest magnetic compass in ancient times, and Sinan's model is now on display at the Chinese History Museum in Beijing and many other museums.

It is said that the Yellow Emperor (about the 47th century BC) and the Duke of Zhou of the Western Zhou Dynasty (about the 21st century BC) made and used the guide car, but after later literature research and model making tests, it has been proved that the guide car has nothing to do with the compass, and the guide car after the Han Dynasty relied on the mechanical structure rather than the magnetic guide. A model of a guide car is also on display at the Chinese History Museum in Beijing.

Chinese Dictionary:

1.It is an instrument used to identify the direction in ancient China. It is the ancestor of the compass used today that it is carved into a scoop-shaped thing made of natural magnetite ore and placed on a smooth disc with directions engraved on it, and the direction can be discerned by using the role of a magnet guide.

2.the rules of figurative action; Correct guidance.

3.The provincial name of Sinan car.

4.Juschen.

Is the male is the direction of ancient Chinese discernment, a kind of person is I should not work people in the long-term practice of the discovery, thank you all my speech is over, my speech is over, wait a moment to end my speech is over.

Sinan's invention is the result of the understanding of the magnetism of objects by the ancient Chinese working people in long-term practice.

According to the records of the "Ancient Mine Record", Sinan first appeared in the area of Cishan in Hebei during the Warring States Period. According to modern archaeologists, it is speculated that natural magnetite is carved into a spoon-shaped thing and placed on a smooth plate, on which the direction is engraved, and the direction can be discerned by using the role of a magnet guide. At present, the only physical object found is in Chengdu, Sichuan.

It is the ancestor of the compass used today.

The south pole (S pole) of the magnet is ground into a long handle, placed on a smooth mirror-like chassis made of bronze, and then cast with directional engravings. When this magnetic spoon stops rotating on the chassis, the direction of the spoon handle is due south, and the direction of the spoon mouth is due north, which is traditionally considered to be the world's earliest magnetic guide instrument, called Sinan. Among them, "division" means "to refer to".

Legend has it that it was invented by the Yellow Emperor, but it was actually invented in the Warring States period. The principle is made according to the characteristics of the magnet indicating the north and south. The main material is magnets.

The compass was widely used in the Warring States period, and it is a pointing instrument made by using the north-south polarity of a magnet in the earth's magnetic field.

This property of magnets was used by the ancients to make guide tools. The earliest guide worker was called Sinan, and it was widely used during the Warring States period. It is made of natural magnets, looks like a spoon, the center of gravity is located in the middle of the bottom, the chassis is smooth, engraved around twenty-four directions, when using the long spoon on the chassis, with the hand lightly, so that it turns, after stopping the long handle points to the south.

Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty (Lun Heng is Ying) recorded its shape and usage. (Guiguzi Plot) also talked about Zheng Guoren going to a distant place to pick jade, so he took Sinan with him, so as not to lose his way. In addition, the invention of the guide car has further elevated this instrument to a higher level.

However, Sinan, which is made of natural magnets, has a lower finished product and weaker magnetism. In the Song Dynasty, people invented artificial magnetization methods and made compass fish and compasses, which were simpler and more practical. It is made of natural magnet friction steel needles, which maintain guide properties under the action of geomagnetism; Later, it was installed on the azimuth disk, which was called a compass.

This was a big leap forward in the history of the compass.

But the specific inventor is not clear.

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