{"id":40149,"date":"2019-02-01T10:41:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T07:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/?p=40149"},"modified":"2019-02-01T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T07:41:47","slug":"chinese-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/chinese-inventions\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Chinese Inventions That Are Still Used Today All Over The World"},"content":{"rendered":"
China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. That it has seen the development of ancient inventions isn’t surprising. Chinese inventions receive little mention in texts, although they have shaped the world as we know it. We explain why and introduce some of them in this article.<\/p>\n
The inventions<\/a> mentioned below are commonplace, so you may be surprised that they were in existence so long ago. Innovation was the trademark of ancient Chinese Civilization.<\/p>\n First of all, we are familiar with the digital clock that gets us up in the morning. Not many of us know about the first mechanical clock, introduced by a Mathematician named Yi, a Buddhist Monk who first showed it during the Tang Dynasty.<\/p>\n This water-operated device ran onto a roll and revolved within 24 hours. This complicated device consisted of iron and bronze. The Chinese had mastered the art of using pins, bolts, locks, and rods.<\/p>\n An astronomer named Su Sing revised the layout of this mechanical device and established himself as the inventor of the clock.<\/p>\n The Chinese were also the first people to practice tea-drinking. Emperor Shen Nong first drank tea in 2737 B.C. An unknown Chinese innovator had created a device that was small, yet efficient at shredding tea leaves<\/a>. Tea farming accelerated between the Song (966 – 1279<\/em>) and Tang (618-907<\/em>) dynasties.<\/p>\n Producers fashion iron from pig-iron. It’s an invention that hails from ancient China, but there’s no archeological evidence to confirm it. Metallic smelting grew in popularity during the Zhang Dynasty (1600 – 256 B.C.<\/em>) to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (1050 – 256 B.C.<\/em>).<\/p>\n Iron smelting<\/a> grew during the Han Dynasty (202 B.C. to 220 AD<\/em>). Qiwu Huaiwen, a metallurgist from the Northern Wei Dynasty (386 – 557 AD<\/em>), developed the process of using cast and shaped iron.<\/p>\n Among the Chinese inventions that still make a difference on the roads and even in buildings is the compass. The Chinese used it to navigate and develop structures according to the principles of Feng Shui.<\/p>\n There were references to compasses in a manuscript written between 960 and 1279. The scholar Zhu Yu explains its application in the book Pingzhou Table Talks.<\/p>\n The photocopying process is one of the oldest Chinese inventions. The Chinese introduced the first printing process to the world. Bi Sheng of the Northern Song Dynasty (960 – 1127<\/em>) introduced Clay Printing.<\/p>\n It involved the production of Types, adding copy, printing and retrieving the Types. Bi Sheng inspired wooden, copper, and lead-type Printing.<\/p>\n Reading and writing wouldn’t be possible without this invention. The Chinese were the first to create paper in a useable format. They first manufactured it during the Western Han Dynasty (202 B.C. to 9 AD<\/em>).<\/p>\n Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty invented the first set of papers using rags, tree bark, fishnets, and rope. The Chinese had used silk fabric, bronze, wooden tiles, bamboo, and pebbles to write on before this.<\/p>\n Many of us are familiar with Guy Fawkes, the English Catholic who tried to replace the reigning Protestant King James with his daughter, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth 1<\/em>), and bring her up as a Catholic.<\/p>\n1. The Clock<\/h4>\n
2. Tea-Drinking<\/h4>\n
3. Iron and Steel Smelting<\/h4>\n
4. The Magnetic Compass<\/h4>\n
5. Printing<\/h4>\n
6. Paper Making<\/h4>\n
7. Gunpowder<\/h4>\n