Aviation is a beautiful, wonderful and mysterious word.
What a wonderful thing that is!
Humans aspire to be able to fly as freely as little birds: birds flap their wings and take to the skies.
China has a history of 5,000 years of civilization, and the ancient Chinese dreamed of aviation. For thousands of years, a large number of myths and legends about flight have been beautiful and mysterious, and have greatly attracted people.
The story of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" is one of the famous legends in ancient China. The Cowherd puts on the cowhide and can fly to the sky to meet the Weaver Girl.
"Chang'e to the Moon" is also a myth known to women and children in ancient China. The ancient people fantasized about landing on the moon one day, so they created the beautiful myths of "Wu Gang cutting down trees" and "Chang'e running to the moon". In the ancient Chinese classic "Huainanzi Lan Yin Xun", it is said, "Yi (Yinyi, a poor monarch) please the medicine of immortality."
In the Queen Mother of the West, Heng'e (i.e. Chang'e) stole to run to the moon, and there was a mourning, and there was no way to continue." Unearthed in 1972, the silk painting of the No. 1 Han Tomb of Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan Province, depicts a woman holding the moon with both hands, which may be the earliest Chang'e running to the moon map. In Chinese myths and legends, Chang'e was originally the wife of the emperor (also said to be the wife of Hou Yi), who flew to the Moon Palace and became a toad because she secretly ate the elixir of immortality, and pounded the elixir of immortality in the palace. Later, it evolved into a white rabbit pounding medicine. There are many evolutions in the story, and the Moon Palace has Chang'e, Jade Rabbit, Wu Gang, Osmanthus Tree, and Osmanthus Wine.
The story of Shun Zhili's "Cangli Jumping" is also famous, especially favored by Chinese and foreign aviation historians. "Historical Records of the Five Emperors" records: "Shun's father was blind, and Shun's mother died, and Shun Suo married a wife and gave birth to an elephant." It is said that Shun's father, Kuosuo, is a blind man, and Gazo prefers his stepwife and his son, and listens to his wife's slander and wants to kill Shun.
One day, "Shun was smeared on the ground, and the Shun was set on fire from below, and Shun Nai Cang jumped down and went down from the pole with two hats, so that he would not die." Shun was anxious to become wise, grabbed two hats, and jumped down from the granary like a bird with its wings open. Because of the drive, he suffered air resistance and slowed down the speed of his fall, which saved his life. This is a parachute prototype that uses air resistance. There are also various versions of this story, such as saying that he wore a special dress with bird patterns and flew down ("The Legend of the Daughters": "Shun clothes flew down in bird clothes"), and some said that "Shun hung down and was not injured" ("Taiping Yulan").
There are many ancient Chinese stories about flying, such as Liezi riding a flying car against the wind, which can be seen in "Zhuangzi Leisurely Travel": "Fu Liezi travels against the wind, and he is good". Zhuangzi's surname is Lie, his name is Yukou, and he was a native of Zheng Guo during the Warring States Period. The ancients believed that wind was a mysterious phenomenon in nature. There is a record of winged feathered people in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Overseas Southern Classic", which was written from the Warring States period to the Western Han Dynasty.