What is the principle of Zhuge Liang's wooden ox flowing horse? Why did you brake the lucky ration?
How close is Zu Chongzhi to Zhuge Liang? Because his creation has also been lost, there is no way to verify it now. In recent years, many people with a heart hope to bring this ancient machine back to this world. Based on historical data and rich imagination, they created wooden cows and horses with different shapes, such as horses, cows or unicycles. Fans of Mu Niu Liu Ma also held several research seminars on Mu Niu Liu Ma!
Chicken car, also known as nonsense car. Means of transportation. It is said that Zhuge Liang created the "wooden ox and flowing horse". Simple structure, shaped like a chicken head, generally 4 feet long, with a wooden single wheel in front and a metal or hard rubber ring around the rim. The upper part of the wheel is equipped with a convex wheel guard plate, which can carry people and goods, and the rear part of the car body has a bracket, which is convenient for parking. There is a dovetail handle, and the driver pushes forward with both hands. There are two kinds: wide frame and narrow frame. The wide frame can bear up to 500kg, and the narrow frame can bear about 200kg. Lightweight and flexible, easy to make.
There is an ancient plank road of 150km in Guangyuan City, which is the only way for Zhuge Liang, the Shu Xiang of the Three Kingdoms, to make his fortune. In order to solve the transportation difficulties of people and animals on this "ladder and stone pile" road, Zhuge Liang researched and manufactured "wooden cattle and horses" instead of transporting wages. [Qing Dynasty] "Zhao Hua County Records" contains: "Muma Mountain, commonly known as Dashen Mountain, is located in eighty miles of Zhao Hua ... where Kongming made wooden cows and horses". This shows that the three mountains in the central area of Guangyuan today are one of the places where Zhuge Liang made wooden cows and horses during the Northern Expedition. The History of the Three Kingdoms also said: "After nine years (23 1), I returned to Yishan in the morning. Fortunately, I had a cow. In the twelfth year (234), it was clear that the masses went out of the inclined valley to flow horses ... "It shows that herding cattle was indeed a means of transportation made and used by Zhuge Gao to adapt to the plank road. This was a very advanced creation at that time. Therefore, it is natural that Guangyuan people have been praised so far.
What kind of transportation is a wooden ox and a flowing horse? What does it have to do with the chicken cart now in use? This is a topic that villagers talk about from time to time, and it is still a beneficial issue in the history of mechanical engineering inventions in China.
"History of the Song Dynasty" Yang Yungong biography: "Yungong suggested that ... if Zhuge Mu Niu's system was used, soldiers would be sent in carts and transported separately. Each car will be held by four people, with soldiers and guards next to it and another land will be on it. As soon as the bandits arrive, we will gather four in the middle to cooperate with the soldiers to defend the bandits from the outside. " The car festival in the Song Dynasty's "Ji Yuan in the Afterlife" said: "When Zhuge Liang of Shu went to war, he began to build wooden cows and horses to transport his salary, and built Bashu Road to facilitate his visit. Mu Niu is the person on the front axle of today's car, and Ma is the person who pushes alone today. " "Chen Houshan Collection" in the Song Dynasty says: "Shu has a small car, pushing it alone, carrying eight stones, and the front is like a cow's head. There is also a big cart, pushed by four people, carrying ten stones covered with wooden cows and horses. " In the Qing Dynasty, an earthen cart in the "A picture of a river worker" wrote: "Earth four, single wheel, carrying both materials and soil. Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, went out to war, only to build a wooden cow and a flowing horse to transport wages. Mu Niu, that is, the car has a front axle, and the horse is flowing, that is, the one who pushes alone today. " According to the works of the above-mentioned historians and scholars, it can be concluded that the so-called wooden oxen and horses are today's two-wheeled vehicles and unicycles. People in Guangyuan and even rural Sichuan call unicycles dicks. This kind of unicycle has been used in Guangyuan mountain area for more than 700 years. According to the statistics of Guangyuan County Agricultural Tools Reform Office from 65438 to 0959, there are nearly 2000 chicken carts in the county. The structure and usage of the cart are similar to the unicycle of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan in Song Dynasty, and it was photocopied and published by Cultural Relics Publishing House 1958. Both are pushed by a person behind, or pulled by a person in front, and some are pulled by a donkey in front. But now the structure of the chicken cart has been improved to two, three or four wheels, with iron-wood rubber wheels or steel rubber wheels, which have developed from human and animal power to mechanical power push and pull. To say that life plays an important role, this is the achievement of modern science, and that the ancient wooden ox and horse, which is several times larger and much more flexible than human beings, is a great invention.
So, was it invented by Zhuge Liang? Puyuan's "Fast History Biography" said: "Puyuan made a wooden ox and a flowing horse, and today people call it the creation of Wuhou. According to Pu Yuan's biography, Yuan You said in the General's Canon: "Gather the governors Liao Li, Hu Zhong and others. And infer that they are indifferent. On this basis, Puyuan people actually created it, but they didn't create it themselves. ".Guangyuan Dagao is one of its manufacturing points, and at the foot of the mountain is the famous Lubanxia plank road (relics still exist). This can be used as a testing ground for wooden cows and flowing horses.