1, the characters printed on the four K's in playing cards are well known. The king of hearts is Charlemagne, the king of spades is David, the king of clubs is Alexander, and the flying diamond is Caesar. Among them, Charlemagne is a figure that China people are not familiar with in the west, but have never heard of. In 800 AD (Tang Dynasty in China), he was crowned "Holy Roman Emperor" by the Pope. After more than 50 wars, the Frankish Kingdom became a great empire that controlled most parts of Western Europe: the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Duomao River and the North Sea in the east.
South to central Italy, it covers almost all countries of the former western Roman Empire. Since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, there has never been such a huge country in Western Europe! He made outstanding contributions in administration, justice, economy, culture and education, and played a role in the development of medieval civilization. In 843, he was called "the father of Europe". Shortly after Charlie's death, his three grandchildren carved up the empire in the Treaty of Valle, which was divided into three parts and became the embryonic form of three European countries in the future-France, Germany and Italy.
2. White American officials were painted white because they were burned to death. After the United States gained independence through the War of Independence, it got rid of British colonial rule and its strength continued to expand. However, Britain did not want to see the strength of the United States grow, and made the original system of confrontation with the United States in trade, politics and military affairs. Thus, the Second American-British War broke out in June 18 12, and the British army captured Washington in August18/4. The White House was burned down by the British (half of them were Canadian militia, and Canada did not gain autonomy at that time). Not allowed after the war (18 17).
3. Many famous European countries seen on the map today came into being after the end of the First World War .. 19 19 After the First World War, the pattern of the world changed greatly. After the war, Britain, France and the United States organized the Paris Peace Conference. In addition to discussing how to punish Germany, Austria-Hungary and other defeated countries, the remaining problems focus on how to re-divide Europe and Europe. Under the leadership of the three countries, Germany's borders were compressed, and Austria-Hungary was disintegrated into Austria and Austria-Hungary.
Poland returned to the motherland, and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania became nation-states according to the principle of national self-determination. The newly established countries were mainly built on the ruins of the Austrian Empire and Tsarist Russia, which basically laid the embryonic form of today's European countries.
4. America is actually a person's name. Columbus was the first European navigator to reach the American continent, but he always thought he was going to India, so he called the local natives Indians. Until Columbus died, he thought he was going to India.
Later, the Italian navigator Amerigo made many trips to the coast of South America from 1499 to 1504. After he returned to Europe, he drew a new map and fully affirmed that the area he arrived in was not "India" as Columbus meant, but "New World". Since 1507, people have called "New World" and "America" by his name.
5. The fighting in the early Spring and Autumn Period was elegant. At that time, some rules of war were circulated among countries, such as "no drums, no columns", just like football matches. Everyone stood in their positions and signaled the referee to get ready before the game started. Another example is "no serious injury, no defeat", that is, when fighting, the same person cannot be injured repeatedly. If the other party has been injured, you can't fight again. If you hit someone, you should stop and don't insist.
6. The word "the devil wears Prada" originated from the clothing of officials in the Ming Dynasty, which was originally a compliment. Dress code for officials in Ming Dynasty: civil servants wear embroidered birds, and military commanders wear painted animals. Civil servants wear robes and embroider cranes; Second-class robe, embroidered golden pheasant: third-class robe, embroidered peacock: fourth-class robe, embroidered clouds; Five green robes embroidered with Bai Peng; Six products of green robe, embroidered heron series and seven products of green robe embroidered creek rescue; Eight green robes embroidered with Huang Peng; Make green robes and embroider storks. The military commander drew a unicorn, a robe and a lion.
Three robes, painting tigers; Four robes, painting leopards; Five green robes, draw bears; Six grades, seven grades of green robe, tiger painting: eight grades of green robe, rhinoceros painting, nine grades of green robe painting, seahorse painting. Therefore, people call civil and military officials "the devil wears Prada", because some officials in the middle and late Ming Dynasty took bribes and perverted the law, oppressed the people and did many evils, which naturally became a derogatory term.
Since the Song Dynasty, people in China have had three meals a day. Before that, people usually only ate two meals. Because the industry and commerce in the Song Dynasty were developed and there was no curfew, a New Year's Eve dinner was added.
8. The person who wrote the most poems in the history of China was Emperor Qianlong 20 14. So, when the official staff cleaned up the cultural relics, they found two boxes with the words "Qianlong Poems" written on them. * * * contained more than 28,000 Qianlong Poems, plus more than 1.7 previously stored, totaling more than 45,000.
You know, after 289 years, there were more than 2,000 poets in the Tang Dynasty, and their works were assembled into a complete Tang poem, adding up to more than 48,000, while Gan Long's poems were almost close to the whole Tang poem. But there are so many poems written by Qianlong, but few can be circulated in the world. Can only say that there is quantity but no quality.
9. He Kun, Ji Xiaolan and Emperor Qianlong were not born in 1750 in the official history of their peers. They are 26 years younger than Ji Xiaofeng and 39 years younger than Ganlong. They are several generations behind and feel far behind their peers in TV dramas. On the contrary, Liu Bang and Qin Shihuang seem to be people of two eras, but in fact they are only three years apart. Qin Shihuang was born in 259 BC, and Liu Bang was born in 256 BC.
10, today's China, as a "big foodie country", is passed down step by step and eaten bit by bit. In ancient times, China people's food was rather monotonous. Apart from food, this is the glory of the wild. For example, the coupon dish in the Book of Songs is an aquatic plant. If you want to eat and fish in the water, you have to make a choice and make great efforts. Before the Qin Dynasty, there was no lotus root in China. Lotus root is a kind of crop that originated in India: before the Han Dynasty, there were no grapes, celery, broad beans, cucumbers and garlic in China, and these fruits and vegetables were brought back by Zhang Qian when he went to the western regions, which was almost enough to play a game of plants versus zombies. Before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were no eggplants in China.
Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were no Swiss babies and spinach in China, which came from Persia and the Mediterranean: before the Song Dynasty, there were no watermelons in China; Before the Yuan Dynasty, there were no carrots in China. Before the Ming Dynasty, there were no potatoes, corn, peppers and tomatoes in China, all of which originated in America. Before the Qing Dynasty, there were no onions and cabbages in China.