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HOW ARE THINGS MADE IN CHINA?

~INVENTION IN CHINA~

 

Have you ever visited China? China is a country that invents a lot of things and is popular for many things. Without the world china, there won't be a life for us right now and non of the things we have today. Many people in the world think that the thing that are made in China are very bad because China is known as polluted country.  Well, but most of the things that people use today are mostly made in China.

From Ancient to today, China has invented a thousand things and made a million thing for our world. With a bad environment chinese people had worked very hard and made a grear effort to a lot of things. 

In Ancient times, chinese people has invented

  • Gunpowder

  • paper

  • compass

and all of other things that people used to use or still use.

Today, china still makes a lot of things like

  • Medical things

  • Electronic things

  • Plastic things

and all of the other things.

 

GUNPOWDER

Like I have told you, gunpowder was the dnagerous chemical that was made and invented in China a thousand years ago when they had a fight against a lot of other countries.

WHAT IS A GUNPOWDER BASICALLY MADE FOR

Gunpowder is an explosive chemical that was used for explosion, killing people, fireworks and others. Today, people still use them for fireworks int the traditional day and on the special day.

WHAT IS GUNPOWDER MADE OF

Gunpowder is made out of sulfur, characoal. pottasium nitrate which is a saltpeter. These are all very very dangerous chemicals. If one thing goes wrong there is going to be a big big huge disaster. but, Chinese people had master these skills. So, it not only bad thing they have.

WHO INVENTED THE GUNPOWDER

Gunpowder was invented by the chinese alchemist. This invention was quite accidental. Well, the alchemist who invented the gunpowder didn't know that he was making a gunpowder but, when he had mixed 75 part of the ingridients it had just exploded so people in china started using them. Though, it was accidental this alchemist is populary listed as the one of the four great invention of China.

The four great inventions of China are the compass, paper, printing machine and gunpowder.

WHEN WAS THE GUNPOWDER INVENTED

The gunpowder was invented in the Tang Dynasty which was in the 9th century.  Even though, gunpowders were invented in tang Dynasty people still use them for fireworks today.

WHEN WAS THE FIRST GUNPOWDER USED

It has been said that the earliest account of firework dates 250 BCE when it is recorded that the alchemist Ma Jun filled bamboo tubes with an explosive subsatnces. By 1232 CE chinese were using explosive missiles, or war rockets for military purposes.

Gunpowder has spread to all over the world in the 12th and 13th century. gunpowder spreaded to the Arab countries, then Greece, other European countries.

WHY WAS GUNPOWDER INVENTED

like i had told you a thousand times, gunpowder was inveted for explosion, killing people and for a lovely fireworks. Since chinese people (Male and female) are still forced to fight today, they still use gunpowders to kill people and explode things.

But on the other hand gunpowders were also invented for a good reason. On the Chinese traditional day, people would use them for a firework. For the big firework that goes up in the sky, they would put a lot on the botttom so that the firework will going to expode hard. And for the small fireworks which you can hold it with your hand, the gunpowder is putted in the part where you pu fire on.

 

CHINESE MEDICINES

Other than gunpowders and all the cool things that are made, China also makes medicines. Chinese medicines were very used from the ancient time. It is used a lot today in a lot of the country.

WHAT KIND OF MEDICINES ARE THERE IN CHINA

Chinese people make medicines that are made out of animals, plants and othet things that has been said it is very good over thousand and thousand of years. Their most famous medicine is Chinese herbal medicine.  Many people think that these medicines taste bad and it does, but this medicine is very healthy.

WHAT DO THEY USE FOR CHIESE HERBAL MEDICINE

The ingridients of Chinese Herbal medicines are bark, mushrooms, leaves and all of that things that you can get from the nature. Unlike the other countries, chinese medicines are made by no specific person. Like in Japan Pharmacist has to make a medicine but in china we can say that mostly anyone can make the medicine. That why, people all over the country say that it is very dangrous to buy chinese things/foods because we don't know what they are using and how they are making it.

WHY DO CHINESE MEDICINES HAVE HARB IN IT OTHER THAN PUTTING MORE OF A BETTER INGRIDIENT

Well, it is that people in China think about their daily life and how healthy they are.  Those ingridients that are used for the medicines are mostly very healthy and doesn't use those chemicals that a lot of other countries use though, you might get a chemical from a bark, mushroom and other ingridients. 

Also, herbal medicine keeps people from getting illness, sick and a disiese.

WHO INVENTED THE CHINESE MEDICINE?

Though, there is no speicific person who invented a medicine, according to the legend of origins of chinese traditional medicine is tracked back to the three legendary emperors/mythical rulers: Fu Xi, Shen Nong and Huang Di. Historians believe that Shen Nong and Fu Xi were early tribal leaders. Fu Xi was a cultural hero who developed the trigrams of Yi Jing(I Ching). Fu Xi drew eight tigrams and created nine needles that chinese people use as accupunture today. The first medicine was created over 4000 years ago. 

WHAT ARE SOME PARTS OF PLANTS THAT THEY USE

ROOT: They use roots for specific plants. They use the roots for the medicine ginseng, Chinese gromwell, and Taiwan Angelica root, etc. Taiwan Angelica root is helpful for indication of headhache, toothache and so on.

Rhizom: This parst include dried ginger with hot nature for asthma and cold. This is helpful for indication of body weakness.

Others sorts of thing like leaf, flower, seeds, grass, and vines, and etc. are also put in for the chinese traditional medicine.

How do they save them and how can we eat them: They are usually put in the jar and have quantity of water. Of, course we can't eat the crude harbs before your own hands prepare.

 

 Picture of Accupunture                      TCM                                        Gunpowder
 


 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

    Some facts you might wanna know

        Gunpowder was also called Hu Yao, and blackpowder

        We say "serpentie" wheb yo say all of the things together. ( carbon dioxide, nitrogen and potassium sulphide )

        For almost 100 years, gunpowders was only known way of creating explosive energy. 250 BCE was the first time to use gunpowder for the firework.

 

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