windmill

In addition to going to the Chegong Temple to pray for blessings during the Chinese New Year, many people will also buy a windmill to go home to symbolize good luck in the coming year. In the old TV series of Jin Yong's novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", there is a character named Qu Shagu. She often sings these two lines: "When the windmill turns, the silly girl is one inch taller." Who is the 'windmill'? What year was it invented?

The windmill, also known as the auspicious wheel, was originally invented by Jiang Ziya in the "Fengshen Bang", and it is an "auspicious symbol of the four seasons". The background of the "Fengshen Bang" is the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, which coincided with the Bronze Age, and at that time, many parts of the world were also in the Bronze Age. why? Is the world already open?

The Xia and Shang eras in China were the era when history began to be recorded in writing, and it was also the time when the monarch changed from the outer Zen system to the inner Zen system. In India, this was the Vedic era, and it was also the era in which the city-state developed into a nation. Wheels have special meanings in Indian religion and culture. For example, there is a blue dharma wheel in the center of the contemporary Indian flag, which symbolizes moving forward. Did the chicken come first or the egg first, and whether the windmill came from India or was invented by the Chinese? Does it have anything to do with one of the symbols of world civilization: the chariot?