Drilling wood to make a fire means rubbing wood with a hard stick or sticking it in, and making a fire by friction. The invention of drilling wood for fire originated from ancient myths and legends in China. In ancient times, Shangqiu area in Henan Province was a forest. Suiren, who lives in the forest, often preys on wild animals. When a stone hits a wild animal, it will produce sparks. Below I will share with you some development history of drilling fire, hoping to help you. Welcome to read!

Development history of drilling wood for fire

In ancient times, Shangqiu, Henan Province was a forest. Suiren, who lives in the forest, often preys on wild animals. When rocks that hit wild animals collide with rocks, they often produce sparks. Inspired by this, Suiren hit a stone with a stone, lit the tinder with the generated sparks, and made a fire. This fire-making method was still used in Shangqiu countryside thirty years ago. At that time, a saint was inspired by the sparks generated by birds pecking at wood, so he broke off the branches of wood and drilled wood to make a fire. He taught people this method. Since then, human beings have learned to make artificial fire, bake food, light it, keep warm, and smell it with fire, and human life has entered a new stage. People call this saint the Suiren surname, and call him "the head of Huang San".

Suirenshi

According to legend, ten thousand years ago, there was a country that knew nothing about four o'clock in the day and night. If people don't die, they will ascend to heaven if they are tired of the world. State-owned wood, also known as fire tree, bends around and clouds come out. If there is a bird, peck at the wood with its beak and make a fire. Inspired by this, a saint broke a branch and drilled wood to make a fire. People call this saint a saint. Sui Renshi is a legendary inventor, which has been recorded in ancient books before Qin Dynasty. According to "Five Mistakes of Everything is done", "In ancient times, there were fewer people and more beasts, and the people were invincible; ..... People eat fruits, clams, clams, and the foul smell hurts the stomach and causes many diseases. There are saints who drill fire to make it stink, and the people call it (味味) to be the king of the world, which makes people embarrassed every day. " "quotations from corpses" said: "one looks up at the stars and overlooks five trees as fire." "Notes" said: "It can be seen that state-owned trees are famous all over the world. Later, saints swam to their country, birds pecked at trees, and they lit a big fire. The sage felt awkward because he used twigs to drill fire. " "Ancient History Examination" said: "At the beginning of ancient times, people sucked dew, ate grass and fruits, lived in mountains, ate birds and animals, ate clothes and feathers, and ate fish, turtles and clams near water without cremation, which was harmful to the stomach. In order to make (yes) saints come out, fire is king, drill to make a fire, teach people to cook, and cast gold as a blade to make people happy. " "Three Graves" says: "Sui people teach us to eat with guns, drill wood for fire, have a platform for preaching, and have a strategy for tying ropes." "Hanshu" also has a record of "teaching people to cook, nourishing people's interest, avoiding odor and removing poison". Mr. Shang He Bing, a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, said: "Fire comes from scratch and its invention is difficult." The emperor felt that the forest burned himself, and he knew that wood hides fire. I don't know. After many attacks and tests, it's tricky to drill wood. His merits and deeds have entered the nest again, and he is the emperor. It can be seen that the shackles at that time were sacred and the interests were profound. "He also said," In other words, it is said that cremation and diet started in Xixi, so it is considered as a number. Do you know that since man invented fire, his wisdom has not known how to eat? "The gunner wrapped the meat and burned it, burning its hair to make it familiar. In cooked food, Suiren not only invented artificial lighting, but also created cooked food.

Public experimental archaeology

Regarding the design of the prehistoric workshop of Xi 'an Banpo Museum, there are mainly the following starting points.

First, it meets the interests of the audience. As for the theory of "drilling the eyes of the fire", because it is limited to written expression, the audience has great obstacles to understand it. How to implement the theory of "striking a diamond"? This has always been a question that most tourists and even many cultural workers are puzzled and most interested in.

Second, make up for the lack of display and explanation. At Banpo site, a large number of unearthed and excavated pottery kiln sites, stove pits sites and public stove sites convinced the audience that "Banpo people have widely used fire in their production and life". Every time an audience asks a question about "fire-making technology", the commentator answers it according to ethnological materials such as "knocking stones to make fire" and "sawing bamboo to make fire", or answers it with "hand drill", "rope drill" and "bow drill". These sound impeccable answers can't completely dispel people's doubts.

Third, improve the content of prehistoric experimental archaeology. As far as we know, the experimental archaeological data about drilling wood for fire have not been reported. Therefore, this important production technology in prehistoric times is worth studying by businessmen. Similarly, this important production technology, which led prehistoric humans to progress, is worth experiencing again today.

To do a good job in the design of "drilling wood to make fire", we must have a certain understanding of the tools, methods and technologies of making fire for prehistoric people. According to the development level of prehistoric productive forces, we speculate that bamboo and wood were the main kindling tools at that time. 1980, two strange wooden products were unearthed at Subaihai site in Shanshan County, Xinjiang. Scholars believe that they are tools used by humans to drill wood for fire more than 2000 years ago: fire drills and wood drills.

The legend of drilling wood for fire

12000 years ago, there were many white stones on Kunlun Mountain, where there were few plants and trees. The only tree that could grow on stones was called flint wood. This kind of wood has one characteristic, only the stem, no skin, no branches and leaves. It looks like a dry tree. You can think of its branches as leaves. Branches fall off every year and regenerate the next year. But at this time, no one said, I saw a piece of wood, so I went up and drilled it to see if it would catch fire. People don't have this intention. But one day, a bird came to Kunlun Mountain, and later generations called her Fang Bi. Fang Bi, a bird, has a habit. It has a very sharp mouth and likes to peck at wood. Turning wood into fire is actually pecking wood for fire. When Fang Bi pecked at the wood, the tree caught fire. After the fire, these people became angry at first sight, so they were able to get angry. As soon as Bifang left, they tried to drill other wood to see if they could catch fire. Later, they used the method of internal grinding and tried their best to finally succeed, turning wood into fire. Of course, after drilling wood to make a fire, people are limited to using one kind of wood, namely flint wood, and use it to make a fire. But after burning wood to make a fire, we said that this primitive wood no longer existed when they moved from Kunlun Mountain to Sun Moon Mountain after 9000 years, because of the coming of that catastrophe. Then drilling fire is just a distant legend of ours, and people try their best to drill fire. For a long time, from 9000 to 3000 years now, people have known that it is very hard to drill wood for fire. We must try our best to select all kinds of wood and drill holes in different ways. What kind of wood do you choose? Willow in spring, jujube and apricot in summer, oak in autumn and different kinds of wood are used to ensure the success of drilling wood for fire. Of course, while drilling wood to make a fire, more than 4000 years ago, people found another way to make a fire. Knock a bucket into a semi-oval, keep it smooth, polish it smooth, the smoother the better, the inside is concave, facing the sun, and there is firewood in that piece, so that you can take pictures of it, just like the magnifying glass we are talking about today, and light a fire when it shines. When the sun is shining, make a fire with poplars, and when there is no sun, make a fire with woody incense. But it is actually very difficult to make a fire with wood. Finally, we say that 1800 has a flint. Flint didn't light itself, but something similar to electricity below. We call it a steam wheel. As long as there is a spark on it, it will catch fire immediately. In modern times, there are flint and flint, but the most obvious feature is how to store fire. At the earliest, everyone thought that in fact, you don't need to store it deliberately, because your group is in a cave and the fire will never go out, but this is not a long-term solution. They wanted to migrate, and in the process of migration, they invented clay. Clay and mud are kneaded together, and loess is also mixed together. After reconciliation, put the fire directly inside and burn it around hard to prevent cracking. Later, in order to prevent cracking, it was placed in a dry place with two holes on it, just like our current honeycomb coal stove, except for a honeycomb coal stove made of clay. When you burn the wood halfway, put it in, then cover it and leave two eyes. In fact, what we are talking about now is that fire is preserved with charcoal. This is old clay. This method has been used for more than 4,000 years, from Sun Moon Mountain for more than 9,000 years, and directly for more than 4,000 years. Speaking of the latter, there is an easier way. In the Weihe River basin, there is a kind of grass called Artemisia argyi, which is more than one meter long. When the grass grows into an adult, pull it down, two on each side, a total of six grasses. When I got to that place, I collected some firewood, so that when I blew it, the fire caught fire. The greatest contribution of Suirenshi to people is that we realized for the first time that we could create our own kindling, and the inspiration for creating kindling came from a bird named Fang Bi, which came from Suirenshi. So this clan is named after the old wood, and we call it the old benevolence clan. However, this Sui Terran finally merged with another ethnic group on the Kunlun Mountain, which is called Qiang, and has existed to this day. Later, the Sui people disappeared, but the Qiang people always existed.