Regarding the origin of mosquito nets, Western scholars have ignored China as a whole, believing that mosquito nets were born in ancient Egypt.
The reason for this is that there are inscriptions in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs indicating mosquito nets, and there are also murals in the pyramids in which Cleopatra, the last female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt, was active in mosquito nets;But in terms of time, the conscious use of mosquito nets by Chinese may not be later than in ancient Egypt.
For example, in the "Zhou Li", there is a special position of "curtain man", who is responsible for the use and management of various accounts of the subjects of the world, including mosquito nets. Around the time of the Tang Dynasty, Chinese mosquito nets spread east to Japan, and it was not until the Edo period that mosquito nets were widely used throughout Japan.
The earliest name of the mosquito net is "帱", and Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang Yuan recorded that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi Huangong's "Cui Sha Zhi Xuan" made the hungry mosquito camp not enter.
The word "tent" in what we call mosquito nets today originally referred only to the draperies, military tents, camp tents, etc., which played a sheltering role. In the Qin and Han dynasties, it was associated with bed tents because of its use with "curtain tents".
The real modern style of the tent is Mrs. Sun Quan, who invented the mesh mosquito net, Mrs. Zhao.
This Mrs. Zhao is really not an ordinary woman, in addition to inventing mosquito nets, she is also the first female painter recorded in history.
Unlike ordinary painters, Madame Zhao is not best at painting on paper, but at weaving vivid brocade drawings with silk threads, which is more difficult and laborious than drawing on paper.
It is precisely because Mrs. Zhao can play with the silk thread in her hand very smoothly that she has also practiced 3 unmatched stunts.
It's just that as a court woman, her stunts did not make her favored, but made her the target of public criticism, and under the intrigue of the palace fight, she finally fell victim to a tragic ending.
Let's take a look at Mrs. Zhao's three stunts.
Absolutely unbeatable. Mrs. Zhao is a native of Luoyang, her brother is a very famous monk Zhao Da during the Three Kingdoms period, this person is still very famous among the people, is listed as one of the sixty Jiazi gods, he was young and studied the number of nine palaces and one calculation, and the things deduced are almost all effective.
If it is placed now, it can definitely be called a "half-immortal".
Later, his hometown fell into war, and he calculated that there would be an emperor in the southeast, so he took his sister to cross the Yangtze River south.
After Zhao reached Dongwu, he quickly gained Sun Quan's trust, and every time Sun Quan sent troops, he had to ask Zhao Da to deduce it first, and what happened later was almost the same as Zhao Da's deduction.
Zhao Da was valued in the state of Wu, and as his sister, he naturally lived a carefree life, and she often studied needlework at home.
As the so-called: 360 lines, the line is the champion.
Zhao's intelligence allowed her to do beautiful needlework, and those originally lifeless silk threads seemed to be alive in her hands, and they were pieced together into all kinds of beautiful paintings.
Her ten fingers are delicate, tender as onion roots, but she is extremely ingenious, wearing colored silk, leading thin threads, interspersed vertically and horizontally, flying up and down, and she can weave a beautiful brocade picture in a few days.
What's even more rare is that no matter how big or small the crocheted brocade is, as long as she wants to, she can weave it, the big one can be more than a foot, and the small one can only be an inch.
And between this size, there is no pattern that can stump Zhao, in the knitting world at that time, Zhao is a legend, and later after she entered the palace, she also brought her own stunt to the harem.
At that time, the palace people called her weaving method "machine unique".
Needle absolute. In addition to the brocade diagram, Zhao can also embroider, and it is precisely because of this that Sun Quan accepted her as a concubine, and the thing is like this:
Once, Sun Quan chatted with Zhao Da and others, he felt that he was in a corner of the country, and he was often very unhappy to be threatened by Wei and Shu, but the march and war should not be rash, at least there must be a map of the march as a guide.
Therefore, he hoped that there would be people who were good at painting to depict the surrounding mountains and rivers, so as to facilitate the marching and fighting of the soldiers.
After Zhao Da heard it, he introduced his sister to Sun Quan, and Sun Quan was not polite when he saw Zhao's beauty, and directly accepted her as his wife.
When Mrs. Zhao learned of Sun Quan's idea, she planned to draw a map for him herself, but she felt that the color of the danqing would fade easily, so she told Sun Quan that the map could be drawn without danqing, and it would be easier to preserve it if it was outlined in the form of embroidery.
As soon as Sun Quan heard that it was extremely reasonable, he ordered someone to tell Mrs. Zhao about the landform to be drawn, and according to their description, Madame Zhao drew the rivers, mountains, lakes and other landforms in detail with lines of different colors on a square silk silk.
After the embroidery, he showed it to Sun Quan, Sun Quan was quite amazed after seeing it, and then Sun Quan showed this map to the ministers**, and the civil and military officials admired the five bodies to the ground, and congratulated Sun Quan on accepting a wonderful concubine.
Later, the people of Soochow also heard that Mrs. Zhao could draw maps in the way of embroidery, and the effect was very good, so they called her stunt "needle master".
Absolutely not. Every summer, the heat is unbearable, and the mosquitoes are even more annoying, and Rao is Sun Quan can't change this situation.
In order to block the scorching heat and mosquitoes, Sun Quan's usual practice was to hang up a silk exquisite purple silk tent, but this kind of tent has two disadvantages, one is that it is too hot and airtight after hanging up, and the other is that it cannot be seen from the inside.
After Mrs. Zhao saw this kind of tent, she shook her head again and again, and Sun Quan asked her if there was any better way to solve these two disadvantages.
Mrs. Zhao thought for a while and said
I was able to use my ingenuity to weave a more practical tent that not only made it feel less stuffy, but also made it possible to see the outside clearly, and the waiter next to the tent felt cool when the wind blew the tent.
After Sun Quan heard it, he felt incredible, so he asked Mrs. Zhao to quickly weave this kind of tent, Mrs. Zhao did not hesitate, she cut off a clump of long hair from her head, separated these strands of hair and glued them with a magic glue, and Mrs. Zhao woven these bonded silk hairs into a curtain.
A few months later, after collecting the silk hair of many people in the palace, Mrs. Zhao weaved a "hair account" that was thinner than the cicada wings.
As long as there is wind, this kind of tent with a hole in the middle will move with the wind, Sun Quan lying in the tent, feeling the breeze coming, refreshing the heart and lungs, extremely comfortable.
Sun Quan was very pleased, whenever the army marched and fought, and the heat was unbearable, he would prop up the tent and lie down in it to enjoy the coolness, and later people called Mrs. Zhao's stunt "Silk Jue".
This is probably the earliest mesh mosquito net.
After Mrs. Zhao's three stunts were well known, women scrambled to follow suit, and when there were more people, the stunts could no longer be called stunts.
And Mrs. Zhao, who was favored by her stunts, was also jealous of other concubines, and they slandered Mrs. Zhao in front of Sun Quan many times.
After Mrs. Zhao lost her favor, she was ostracized by the people in the palace, and finally died lonely in the cold palace where no one cared about, which can be described as extremely miserable.