Section 321 Northern Song Dynasty: Water Transport Instrument Elephant Terrace

The molten copper needs to solidify, a process that can take as little as three to four hours or as long as a day or two.

The manufacturing that Qin Huai is trying to make now is all small objects, although the condensation time is not long, but it will have to wait until tomorrow to polish and polish.

Beauty needs to be given time to spread and grow.

So.

Qin Huai locked the door of the work hall, took the two small ones in Shang Ya's arms, and returned to the living room, still putting the two small ones on the carpet.

He was on the dining table, spreading out his drawing paper and drawing with a ruler.

Two years ago, didn't Ning Zhiyuan and Zhao Daoyuan want to build a traditional skills town and invite Qin Huai to be a designer?

In the first two years, Qin Huai was busy taking care of the pregnant Shang Ya, busy giving Shang Ya a scientific and reasonable confinement, and busy taking care of the two newborn children.

Now.

Shang Ya is in good health, the two little ones are thriving, and the wood carving group of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang has also been carved, and Qin Huai has enough time to devote himself to the design of the traditional skills town.

Let's be honest.

He was very grateful to Ning Zhiyuan and Zhao Daoyuan for their investment.

It allows tourists to experience the bits and pieces of traditional skills from the traditional I skills town, so that more people can understand the culture of the Chinese family and understand the traditional skills.

How wonderful.

What is most lacking in our traditional skills is publicity.

Therefore.

Qin Huai was willing to spend all his efforts to design such a town.

It's not great.

It's just that Qin Huai just loves this business.

Of course.

In the past two years, Qin Huaiye has accumulated some brain-opening ideas that cannot be presented in specific carvings, which can also be used in traditional skills towns.

Qin Huai has countless creative desires in his heart, and he can't express it through carving, so he can vent it in the traditional skills town.

For example, Qin Huai has always been very curious about the Northern Song Dynasty water transport instrument elephant platform.

Speaking of the water transport instrument elephant platform, many people may be very unfamiliar.

However, in the scientific community, especially in the world of horology, this instrument can be described as famous and thunderous.

Designed and manufactured by astronomers such as Su Song and Han Gonglian, it is a comprehensive observation instrument that combines the armillary sphere for observing celestial phenomena, the armillary sphere for demonstrating celestial phenomena, the mechanical device for measuring time omission and reporting time!

It symbolizes the highest level of science and technology before mankind enters modernization!

Among them, the escapement that was first used was a key component of later watches.

Because of this.

The British scientist Joseph Needham said in his writings: "The Elephant Observatory of the Water Transport Instrument" is the direct ancestor of the astronomical clock of the European Middle Ages.

Patek Philippe, the most authoritative publication of the first Swiss watch brand, once unmistakably admitted: "The 'water transport instrument elephant platform' built by Su Song, an astronomer of the Song Dynasty in China, in 1090, was equipped with the world's first escapement, and Europe used this principle to develop clocks three centuries after the advent of this escapement in China."

There are also many authoritative publications, such as Science, which have published research papers on it.

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According to historical records, the whole instrument is about 12 meters high and 7 meters wide, and it is a wooden building with a square platform shape at the bottom and a wide top.

Among them, the armillary sphere and other instruments are made of copper.

The whole Taiwan is divided into three compartments, the lower compartment includes the time signaling device and the power mechanism of the whole Taiwan, the middle compartment is a secret room, where the armillary image is placed, and the upper partition is a board house, where the armillary sphere is placed.

The instrument involves mechanics, dynamics, mechanical operation, and is extremely complex.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, no one was able to reproduce this work.

It was not until 1958 that Mr. Wang Zhenduo, a well-known museology scholar and historian of Chinese science and technology, copied this astronomical machine, bringing this pearl in the clay to the international stage.

Since then.

It caused a tsunami in the international chronograph historiography.

Joseph Needham, a British expert on the history of science and technology, spent years copying it.

Immediately afterwards, restoration models appeared in the United States, Wanwan and other places.

In 1997, it took eight years in Nagano Prefecture, the hometown of Toei Seiko, to successfully reproduce the 'Water Transport Instrument Elephant Table'.

This instrument, even for a carver like Qin Huai with Chinese craftsmanship, is a big test.

But it is precisely because of its legendary color, as well as its hegemony in the history of science, astronomy, and technology, that Qin Huai wants to challenge.

In order to save time, it can be reproduced without a 1:1 scale, and only one-fifth of the original can be reproduced.

While studying Wang Zhenduo's drawings, Qin Huai imagined the proportions and the structure of the parts in his mind, and at the same time drew the parts by hand.

'Boom'

Qin Huai's pen came from the sound of neat rubbing, and the two little ones were tired of playing with Shang Ya, so they crawled over and hugged Qin Huai's calves, babbling and shaking.

Especially Xiaoya, her white and chubby little hands grabbed Qin Huai's trouser legs, and her little short legs hung in the air. At the same time, a laugh came out of his small mouth, attracting Qin Huai's attention.

Qin Huai put down the pen, looked down at the two little cute things with a smile and a smile, stretched out his hand to take off Xiaoru and put it aside.

However, Xiaoya's picking is very difficult.

Qin Huai broke the little girl's hand, the little girl's little short leg held on, broke the little short leg, and the little hand was entangled again, anyway, it was all kinds of entanglement.

Seeing that Qin Huai's father looked helpless, he still raised his little head and grinned, as if to say, this princess is born to love her father, what can she do to me?

Shang Ya couldn't help but shake her head when she watched from the sidelines, the little girl is not very old, but she has learned to rob her husband with other women!

Qin Huai could only put down the drawing in his hand and carry the two small ones.

took them crazy for a while, and the two little ones were so tired that they fell asleep again and again, and finally threw the two noisy guys on the bed and sent them to the room to sleep.

At this time.

It was already eight o'clock in the evening.

Shang Ya came out of the shower, her waist-length waterfall hair draped behind her, and she glanced at Qin Huai with affection.

"Asleep?"

"When you fall asleep, you should go and rest first. I want to go to the workshop and carve some wax models. ”

Qin Huai rubbed Shang Ya's wet hair and gently covered her sexy little red lips.

"I'll accompany you, how lonely it is to stay alone in the studio. ”

The empty studio, a lone lamp, without the slightest sound, all around, only the constant repetition of the carving action, no matter who it is, will be driven crazy?

So Shang Ya volunteered, even if she couldn't speak, as long as she sat next to Qin Huai, she could make Qin Huai feel a support from his wife.

Qin Huai smiled slightly, nodded slightly, picked up the drawings of the parts, and stopped Shang Ya into the studio.

When Qin Huai took the wax model and carving tools, Shang Ya set up the chair and spread out the tablecloth.

The two sat opposite each other, looking at each other and smiling, and at this moment, even the lights became soft.

"I'm going to start carving!"

Qin Huai gathered his mind and entered the state of carving with full concentration.

Shang Ya held her chin and stared at Qin Huai directly, her eyes were soft, so soft that they almost melted.

whispered love words to Qin Huai in his heart: From now on. The morning sun is scorching, the stars and the moon are gone, the autumn rain is murmuring, and the evening breeze is slow,

can't match the stars in my husband's eyes.

To this day, even if there is a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, Shang Ya is still able to carry out a smooth self-strategy.

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