The ancients didn t have concrete, so how did they keep the grass from growing on the road?

Two thousand years ago, there was no concrete on the highway at that time, why did Qin Chi Road not grow grass for thousands of years.

The ancients burned the ordinary soil into mature soil, and the cooked soil is hard and firm, not easy to destroy and crack many cracks, and there is no room for weeds to live on the road.

Let many people walk on it often, so that the land is more solid, which is not conducive to the growth of grass.

In order to prevent grass from growing on the road, the soil used to pave the road was cooked soil that had been fired.

That's because there is often maintenance, and it is often trampled by the military. In today's life, we can also find that if a piece of land is always stepped on by people, then the land will not grow grass.

In ancient times, there was no reinforced concrete, and there was no concrete, but the ancients were very wise. In order to prevent grass from growing on the road, they cooked all the soil used to build the road before putting it into use, so that when the soil dried, no grass would grow.

We all know that there was no reinforced concrete in those days, and the terrain was very complicated, so it was not easy to build a road. The people in charge of this matter are also very anxious, like ants on a hot pan circling around. However, the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated.

The workers came up with a good solution, which was to heat and cook the soil before using it, so that the soil would be very strong after it had been thoroughly dried by the wind and rain.

However, the manpower and material resources required for this project are too great. However, this was not a problem for Qin Shi Huang, and later when the mountain road was not completed, Qin Shi Huang died suddenly. It can be seen that even the ancient people were very wise, and the roads they built were even stronger than the concrete roads of today.

Moreover, this road has also played a very important role in the military, and has just become a beautiful landscape in the history of our country.

Boil the raw soil into the soil, and at the same time boil the grass inside, and then spread it on the road layer by layer. The boiled soil is not suitable for plant growth, so grass does not grow.

The ancients burned the soil into mature soil, concocted it, and paved the road with cooked soil so that the road would be hard, firm, and able to withstand the sun and rain.

During the Qing Dynasty, they built an ancient highway, which is now the Qin Straight Road, and the reason why this Qin Straight Road did not grow a single inch of grass was that when they built this road, they fried all the soil. As a result, the soil has no nutrients and no grass grows.

Mr. Lu Xun once said a sentence:There is no road in this world, and when there are more people walking, it becomes a road。I think that's probably why the ancient highways were formed.

When I was a child, there were many village roads that were not asphalt but still had no grass, and even on rainy days, if they were just pedestrians, there would be no potholes. Such a sturdy path is not the favorite of the grass, the grass prefers the soft soil that is not trampled on.

At that time, the people of the village had to walk wherever the road had become, and people drove oxen and carts on the road, trampling day after day, so that a small path appeared in the place where there was no road, and then the path became wider and wider because more and more people walked.

When I returned home after many years, the village had changed a lot, and roads had been built in all directions. The muddy paths are scarce, and even the occasional dirt paths are overgrown because they are remote and no one walks around often.

The roads in ancient times were probably similar to the muddy roads in our usual villages, but the official roads in ancient times should still need certain maintenance measures, after all, the official roads were not only walked by people, but also could withstand the crushing of horse-drawn carriages. There should be two kinds of official roads, one is a dirt road and the other is a road paved with bluestone slabs.

It is very unlikely that the bluestone slab paved road will grow grass, and the maintenance of the dirt road official road should be the kind of cylindrical boulder with a hole in the middle, which will be pulled and rolled by horses every once in a while to ensure the smoothness and solidity of the official road.

However, these are all just personal speculations, and perhaps the ancients had a more clever way to ensure that no grass grows on the road.

Because there are so many people walking, the road surface is already very strong, and on such a road surface, the grass cannot grow at all, and even if it grows, it will be trampled to death.

In ancient times, it was generally a dirt road, and then there was a bluestone slab road, and the road paved with bluestone slabs may not grow grass.

The main reason is that there will be many people walking on a road and the grass will be trampled to death, and another reason is that there will be people who will weed regularly.

Only hard loess can be used or grass is removed frequently, and our ancestors are still relatively industrious compared to us.

I have a feeling that you should walk on it a lot, or make it stronger, so that the seeds don't germinate.

The roads are paved with stones or cement, and there are more people coming and going, and there will be no grass.

In fact, you don't have to do anything deliberately, as long as there are more people walking, the grass will naturally not grow.

That's a local method, that isThe soil is burned dry, the soil is burned to maturity, the microorganisms in the soil are burned, and then pressed on the road, you can be firm and hard in the sun and rain, and not a single inch of grass grows.

Records of the official construction of roads began in the time of Qin Shi Huang, when Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdomsIn order to consolidate the rule and strengthen communication, he ordered the unification of the train tracks and the construction of construction roads。During the Qin Shi Huang period, there was a famous "highway", called "Qin Straight Road".

Qin Straight Road leads directly to the nine counties,Due to the well-built roads, the road surface has been smooth and solid for many years, and no weeds have grown for many yearsIt has become an important route for communication.

At that time, Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of roadsThe requirements are very strict, the road must be solid and smooth and not broken for many years, and it must stand the test of time, and the road should be free of weeds, even if it rains, the road must not grow weeds, and no grass must grow. Since Qin Zhidao is still a road for disseminating information, it is often a fast horse and whip spies galloping on horseback, but the road cannot be dented because of the perennial horses' hooves.

In terms of the technology at that time, it was too difficult to have no concrete, no steel bar, no road rollers. The craftsmen in charge of the construction were so anxious that they were sweating profusely, which was more difficult than ascending to the sky, but they did not dare to disobey Qin Shi Huang's orders.

After thinking about it for a few days, the craftsmen were forced to have no choice, and they came up with a wonderful method, that isOrdinary soil is burned and turned into mature soil, and then many layers are laid on the road surface, and after continuous pressing, the road finally becomes hard and firm。However, this method was extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive, and many poor people were arrested to work as coolies.

It took many years, and finally built a straight Qin straight road through the nine counties, the Qin straight road is 800 meters long, the road surface is about 20-60 meters wide, when the Qin straight road was completed can not be studied, but until the death of Qin Shi Huang did not see the completion of the construction of this road, and then the Qin straight road has been used, until the Qing Dynasty was slowly abandoned.

I have to say that the wisdom of the ancients is still very unique, and in ancient times, when the economy and science and technology were not developed, they still had their own unique creations and inventions.

Over and over again, people walked and made the land very solid, so it was difficult for grass to grow.

At that time, the economic conditions were relatively poor, but they also had a way, they burned the soil into ashes and spread it on it.

Dry the soil so that some of the material in it will be burned off, and it will not be easy for grass to grow.

Because they have burned the soil into cooked soil, so that it will be strong and will not grow grass.