What are some interesting trivia facts from history?

The great calligrapher Zhong Xuan gave birth to Zhong Hui at the age of 74, and he was really old and strong.

<><10 interesting historical trivia, people who know more than 5 are all top students

1. There is no desert in Japan, but there is a desert museum on the island of Honshu, which collects almost all the samples of deserts in the world.

2. The fastest post station in the Qing Dynasty was 600 li, 400 li, and 200 li, and the use of post delivery had strict regulations, even if the governor and general abused it, they would be punished. Only when encountering the governor, the governor, the general, the admiral, and the four scholars of the province, who died of illness or were worried in office, and the city was lost or recovered, the 600 li post could be used.

3. Salt had a very important value in ancient times, and the famous Oxford English Dictionary devotes nearly four pages to explaining the word "salt", which greatly exceeds the explanation of other foods.

4. Before the advent of glasses in Europe, Europeans with poor eyesight tried to improve their eyesight in various bizarre ways, such as hanging a bull's eye around their necks, or using a red cloth bag with a fox's dry tongue inside, and then tying it around their necks to improve their eyesight.

5. Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, had a fanatical fan named Ge Qing, from the neck down, stabbed with thirty poems of Bai Juyi, and also equipped with illustrations, so that the body was incomplete, and was called Baishe Renxing Poetry by the people of the time.

6. China's martial arts examination was born in the Wu Zetian period of the Tang Dynasty, and was not abolished until 1901 after the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and has been circulated for more than 1,200 years. The difficulty of the Qing Dynasty martial arts champion exam is not low, you must be able to dance a big knife weighing more than 80 catties, and lift a big stone weighing 200 to 300 catties with both hands.

7. In ancient times, the term doctor mostly referred to an official title, in charge of education, and sometimes in charge of etiquette. In the Yuan Dynasty, in some places in the south of the Yangtze River, tea sellers were called doctors, and doctors were doctors. The Ph.D. as a degree system was introduced from the West.

8. The Japanese population is not more than 100 million, but there are 150,000 surnames, and most of the Japanese surnames are written in Chinese characters, mostly two characters, and less than three characters or one character. Among them, Sato, Suzuki, Tanaka, Yamamoto, Kobayashi, Watanabe, Saito, Nakamura, Ito, and Takahashi are the top 10 surnames in terms of number of people.

9. Historically, Philadelphia and New York have both been the capitals of the United States. After the death of the United States in 1799, Congress decided to name the capital after him, choosing the new capital at the intersection of Maryland and Virginia. Washington, D.C., the capital of 3,000 inhabitants, is now a veritable cosmopolitan city.

10. In medieval Europe, pigs had a very high status and could walk freely on the streets without any restrictions. They often break into homes and even bite unattended babies to death. The pig caused a terrible disaster, and people did not dare to kill it without permission.

Rather, it needs to be brought to court, prosecuted, and sentenced by a judge to death to death.

<><1. Mention Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng and Han Gaozu Liu Bang.

Everyone must feel that one is the founder of the Qin Dynasty and the other is the founder of the Han Dynasty, and the two are certainly not the same era. However, in reality, the difference between the two is only three years. That's right, Qin Shi Huang was only three years older than Liu Bang.

Ying Zheng was born in 259 BC, while Liu Bang was born in 256 BC.

2. The eight words "Fengtian carries the emperor's edict" on the holy decree.

Due to the influence of the TV series, many people should be able to break the sentence to be carried by Fengtian, and the emperor said. In fact, the real reading is, Feng, the day carries the emperor, the edict says....The format goes like this

3. The decree does not have to be golden.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the five grades and above were awarded with the decree, and the five grades and below were given the edict. Depending on the rank of official, the color of the decree is also different.

The Holy Decree obtained by the five grades and above** is woven in segments of three-colored, five-colored, or seven-colored silk (the higher the level, the more colors); The holy decree received by the ** below the fifth grade is generally made of pure white silk. The words written on the decree come in many colors, such as red, black, blue, and green.

4. During the Three Kingdoms period, everyone is familiar with the three countries of "Wei, Shu and Wu".

We are accustomed to calling the "Shu Kingdom", his country name is not "Shu", but "Han", also known as the "Ji Han" Shu State, which is a contemptuous name for the Ji Han regime in the Shu region of the other two countries. In fact, the Three Kingdoms did not make it clear that the Rent Cong was not the real Three Kingdoms, and the Liaodong Gongsun family pattern lasted for decades until 239 before it perished.

5, the only king who fell into the dung pit - Jin Jinggong.

According to historical records, he felt unwell and went to the toilet because he ate a bowl of wheat porridge, and suddenly had angina pectoris when he was standing on the pit, and he suddenly failed to stand firm and fell into the dung pit.

6. Wu Zetian is not the only female emperor in Chinese history.

When it comes to the empress, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind must be Wu Zetian, but before Wu Zetian, there was also a leader of the peasant rebel army who was called the emperor, Chen Shuozhen (620-653), who was defeated and killed, and the Northern Wei Emperor Yuan girl during the Northern Wei Dynasty. Although one is the leader of the rebel army and the other is a puppet, the two of them are also out-and-out female emperors.

7, the original sentence of the bastard is "forget the eight ends".

"Forget the eight ends" refers to filial piety, loyalty, faithfulness, courtesy, righteousness, honesty, and shame. The eight ends are the foundation of life, if you forget the eight ends, it is equivalent to having no bottom line of principles. Because of the false rumors in later generations, it was rumored that he became a "bastard".

8, Zhang Fei is very likely to be a handsome guy in history.

And his brother Guan Yu, the weapon in his hand is also very likely to be the Qinglong Glaive, according to records: The Glaive Knife only appeared in the Song Dynasty, and Guan Yu stabbed Yan Liang in the chaotic army, which also proved that he was not using a knife, it should be a short knife or a spear type.