Did people start using coal in the Tang Dynasty?

Yes, but the amount of mining is not large, and charcoal is mainly used.

The textbook says that it was used on a large scale in the Song Dynasty, in fact, it was already used in the Tang Dynasty, and ancient Chang'an had a cold winter with a charcoal basin for heating, and many people died of carbon monoxide poisoning every year, which was called carbon poisoning at that time.

During the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuo had already discovered coal, and speculated that it would be the most useful in the future. It's a pity that no one knew what it was used for and used it at the time!

Who discovered coal first.

Chinese. The history of coal In the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, the Chinese already knew how to use coal as fuel. However, most Europeans did not know the purpose of coal in the thirteenth century. Therefore, when Marco Polo saw the Chinese using coal, he thought it was a kind of "black stone" that could be burned.

Do you know "The Charcoal Seller"? Bai Juyi wrote, of course, the Tang Dynasty knew the use of coal, "Cutting and burning charcoal in the southern mountains...

When humans discovered that coal could ignite fires.

This question should not be asked here.

China is the earliest country to dig coal and use coal. During the Western Han Dynasty, China has used coal to smelt iron, and there have been records of coal in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" during the Warring States Period. It can be seen that our ancestors already knew about coal mining and coal use 2,300 years ago.

Yes, during the Qianlong period, people spent many years watering a natural coal mine in Xinjiang that had been extinguished for many years.

The history of human discovery of coal is quite long, and China is the first country in the world to use coal as fuel. More than 3,000 years ago, our ancestors began mining coal and used this "black stone" to heat their homes and boil water for cooking. In the Han and Tang dynasties, the artisanal coal industry was established, and coal was widely used in smelting and casting metals (using thermal energy).

But at this time, most countries in the world did not know what coal was! Coal was called black stone in ancient times, but also by many other names. Such as stone nira, black gold, graphite, charcoal, and so on.

To this day, it is recognized that the earliest record of human coal mining activities in China is the "Family of Foreign Relatives" in Sima Qian's "Historical Records". Therefore, it is certain that coal was already mined and used during the Tang and Song dynasties.

Absolutely. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago, our ancestors already knew how to use coal as fuel.

Of course, it was dug up, as evidenced by Tang Bai Juyi's "Charcoal Seller".

Sell charcoal, cut down and burn charcoal in the southern mountains.

The face is full of dust and smoke, and the temples are pale and the fingers are black.

What is the profit from selling charcoal? The clothes on the body eat in the mouth.

The poor shirt is single, and the heart is worried and wishes for the cold.

At night, a foot of snow outside the city came, and Xiao drove a charcoal cart to roll the ice ruts.

The cattle are trapped and the people are hungry, and they are resting in the mud outside the south gate of the city.

Who are the two riders? The yellow-clothed messenger is white-shirted.

The hand put the paperwork in his mouth, and returned to the car and led the ox to the north.

A cart of charcoal, more than 1,000 catties, the palace envoy will not regret it.

Half a horse of red silk and a zhang of silk, tied to the cow's head to fill the charcoal straight.

Coal has been discovered and used for more than 3,000 years, and it was near the end of the Middle Ages (around the 12th and 17th centuries) that coal was gradually widely used, and around 1710 AD, steam power began to be used in industry, to propel machines, and even to start trains.

During the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, the Chinese already knew how to use coal as fuel. However, most Europeans did not know the purpose of coal in the thirteenth century. Therefore, when Marco Polo saw the Chinese using coal, he thought it was a kind of "black stone" that could be burned.

It can be seen that in the thirteenth century, China's material civilization was far superior to that of Western countries.

It has nothing to do with modern times, after the Northern Song Dynasty, a large number of coal began to be used, coke appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, and a large number of coal was used after the Yuan Dynasty.

About 2,000 years ago, ancient Greece began to mine and utilize coal, while China began to use coal as fuel more than 3,000 years ago. However, coal was really widely used as an energy source after the 17th century, and after entering the 17th century, due to the vigorous development of the handicraft industry, firewood as a fuel was increasingly unable to meet the needs of human beings, and coal replaced firewood as the world's main energy source.

The ancients started using coal from the late Neolithic period. Oil was first used in the Sui Dynasty 1,400 years ago.

Use of coal:

As early as the late Neolithic period, ancient people had carved rings and animal-shaped works of art out of coal. In the Western Han Dynasty around 200 BC, coal was used as fuel to smelt iron. This is about 1700 years earlier than in Europe.

By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, coal was already a household fuel. By the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hebei and other provinces had mined a large amount of coal as a raw material for iron smelting and household fuel. In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the Italian Marco Polo came to China in 1275 and saw the Chinese burning coal to make iron, which was the first time in his life that he saw coal as fuel.

Marco Polo recorded this new event in his travelogue. The book writes that there is a black stone in China that can burn, and it will not be extinguished all night. At that time, Europeans read Marco Polo's travelogue and felt very novel, they ** knew that in fact, the Chinese have used coal as fuel for 1,2300 years, and China was the first in the world to discover coal as a fuel.

Early use of oil:

Fourteen hundred years ago, the ancient people of our country saw the importance of oil in military affairs and began to use it in warfare. There is such a historical fact in the "Yuanhe County Chronicles": during the Tang Dynasty (578 AD), the Turkic rulers sent troops to surround and attack Jiuquan in Gansu, and the local soldiers and civilians ignited the "fire oil" to burn the enemy's siege tools, repelled the enemy, and defended Jiuquan City.

Oil was used in the war and dramatically changed the course of the war. Therefore, in the fifth dynasty (907 960 AD), the military application of oil was gradually extensive, and in the Later Liang (919 AD), there were cases of putting "fire oil" in iron cans and launching it to burn enemy ships.

Many ancient documents in China, such as Zeng Gongliang's "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" in the Northern Song Dynasty, have quite specific records on how to use oil as raw materials to make a powerful offensive ** "fierce fire oil". During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, he also set up an ordnance supervisor in the capital city of Bianliang (now Kaifeng, Henan) to take charge of the manufacture of military equipment, including a workshop specializing in the processing of "fierce fire oil". According to Kang Yuzhi's "Yesterday's Dream Record", during the Northern Song Dynasty, the northwest frontier "dug the ground to make large pools, vertical and horizontal, in order to store fierce fire oil", which was used to defend against the intrusion of foreign rulers.

There is oil in the territory of Yan and Yan, and it is said that "Gaonu County produces fat water", that is. Born in the water, the sand and stone and the spring water are mixed, and come out in a melancholy, the native people take the pheasant's tail to cover it, and it is extracted into the reed, which is quite like pure lacquer, burning like hemp, but the smoke is very thick, and the curtain is black. If you suspect that its smoke can be used, try to sweep its coal as ink, black light is like paint, and pine ink is not as good, so it is great.

Those who know the text as "Yanchuan Stone Liquid" are also. This thing will be great in the world, and it will be done from the beginning. Cover oil at most, and be born in the earth endlessly, not as pine as sometimes exhausted.

Today, the pine forests of Qi and Lujian are exhausted, and gradually to Taihang, Jingxi, and Jiangnan, and most of Songshan are children. The coal maker covers the benefits of unknown stone smoke. The charcoal smoke is also big, and the ink is clothed.

Yu drama is the cloud of "Yanzhou Poems": "It snows a lot in Erlang Mountain, and Xuanzhuo Qionglu learns from the people. The plain clothes are not old in winter, and the stone smoke is like Luoyang dust.

Shen Kuo's "Dream Creek Writings" is quite late compared to the two rivers. It is also worth mentioning that the Two Rivers civilization used asphalt to wipe roofs and pave roads very early (the earliest asphalt roads). I posted this paragraph to remind people who write about crossing **, unfractionated and refined oil, the smoke is big, you can use it, be careful to change Zhang Side.

Thank you for the trouble to adopt!

After the Song Dynasty, coal began to be used in large quantities, and coke appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was used in large quantities after the Yuan Dynasty.

The Western Han Dynasty was the earliest period of coal mining and use in China.

The color of coal is dark and resembles a stone, so it has the names of "stone nirvana", "stone carbon", "graphite", "black gold stone" and "black dan" in ancient times. Written in the late Spring and Autumn Period and the beginning of the Warring States Period (about the fifth century BC), the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Classic of the Five Tibetan Mountains" says, "The Mountain of Women's Bed", "The Mountain of Women's Numbers", and "Many Stone Nirvana". The mountain of the female bed is in present-day Shaanxi, and the mountain of the female number is in present-day Sichuan, indicating that coal has been found in these areas at that time, which is the earliest record of coal in China.

During the Western Han Dynasty, China began to mine coal and use coal as fuel. "Historical Records: The Family of Foreign Relatives" records that in the year of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, that is, in 180 BC, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Dou "Dou Guangguo......for his master to go into the mountains to make charcoal". "Into the mountains for charcoal" is to go into the mountains to mine coal.

At that time, there was also a "bank collapse" (collapse) accident, and "more than 100 people under the shore" were "crushed and killed", indicating that the scale of coal mining was not small. After the liberation, in the iron smelting sites of the Han Dynasty such as Tieshenggou in Gongxian County, Henan Province and Guxing Town in Zhengzhou, coal blocks used for smelting and briquettes made of coal powder mixed with clay and quartz were found. In general, coal should be used as a smelting fuel later than a general fuel, and the use of briquettes should be later than the use of coal blocks.

It can be seen that coal has been used for a long time in the Western Han Dynasty.

In the Northern Wei Dynasty's Li Daoyuan's "Water Classic, River Water Note" quoted in Shi's "Records of the Western Regions", there is the earliest record of coal and iron smelting in ancient China: "Two hundred miles north of Quci, there are mountains. ......People take this mountain of coal, smelt this mountain iron, and use it for 36 countries.

In present-day Kuqa County, Xinjiang, the iron smelted there could be used by 36 countries in Xinjiang at that time, which shows that the scale of coal mining and iron smelting is considerable.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, China began large-scale mining and extensive use of coal. Coal has been widely used as a fuel for iron smelting and porcelain making, and in some places, coal has also replaced firewood and grass as the main fuel for urban residents. Coal mining in the Song Dynasty had a relatively complete set of technologies.

Coal mining technology in the Ming Dynasty was further developed, and measures to remove gas and prevent mine collapse had appeared.

China is the first country in the world to mine and use coal. In Europe, there was a written record of coal in 315 AD, about 800 years later than the written record in China; Coal mining in England only began in the 13th century, about 1400 years later than China.

The documented history of coal mining and utilization can be traced back to the Warring States period; In the 2rd and 3rd centuries AD.