Four great beauties and four great ugly women in ancient China

You may have know the four great beauties in ancient China,they are Xi Shi,Wang Zhaojun,Diao Chan,Yang yuhuan.But do you know there are four great ugly women too?

1.Mo mu

The wife of Yellow Emperor,Yellow Emperor was the ancestor of the Chinese nation.

2.Zhong Lichun

The queen of Qi kingdom during the warring states period.

3.Meng Guang

The wife of Liang Hong,the distinguished man in Eastern Han Dynasty.

4.Yuan Shi

The wife of Xu Yun,the celebrity in Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Through the great ugly women had no good appearance,but they owned the great virtue,which helped they win respect from other people.

Ancient seismograph

Zhang Heng,the scientist in Eastern Han Dynasty,invented the first seismograph of the world.It help the ancient people to know the direction of the earthquake in time after the earthquake.

seismograph

The seismography was made with bronze.There are eight dragon around the seismography,whose heads stretch to eight different directions.Eight toads squat under the dragon heads with the opening mouth.When the earthquake happen,the dragon head stretch to the direction of the earthquake would throw out a bronze bead into the mouth of toad below.

Valentines’ day

The traditional valentines’ day in China are the festival of lanterns (Jan 15) and double seventh festival (Jul 7) .But nowadays Chinese people,especially the young people,celebrate the valentines’s day on Feb 14 too.