The story of "Yan made man" in Liezi Tang Wen is an earlier "science fiction novel" in ancient China, which is well known and recognized by China science fiction circles. The original text of this work is: "Zhou Muwang went hunting westward, crossed Kunlun Mountain, but did not reach the foot of the mountain. On the contrary, before China, the Taoist priest presented his work name to Yan, and Mu Wang recommended it and asked,' What can I do?' Yan said,' I was just ordered to give it a try. But I made something that I hope Wang can see first. "Mu Wang said:' Come every day and I will watch it with everyone.' The next day, Yanshi met the king. Wang Jianzhi said, "If you come with me, who is the devil?" Right: "I can publicize what I have done." King Mu watched in amazement, stepped forward and believed the man. If the husband is happy, then the music and the law; Hold his hand, then the dance should be festive. Ever-changing, just what you want. The king thought he was a real man, so he observed St. Gine. At the end of the skill, the proposer will attract the attention of the king and stay with me. Wang was furious and set about punishing Yanshi. Yan was greatly awed, and the principals showed the king separately, all of which were done by Fu Huige, Wood, Glue, Lacquer, White, Black, Dan and Qing. Wang Di's liver, gallbladder, heart, lungs, spleen, kidney, stomach, bones and muscles, joints, fur and teeth are all fake. Meeting again will be as good as the first time. If the king wants to waste his heart, he can't speak; Waste liver, do not look; If you lose your kidney, you can't move. King Mu sighed at first:' Can a man's sergeant be as good as a creator? The imperial edict took it home and put it in the car. Fuban lost the ladder, and Mo Zhai flew a kite, claiming to be extremely capable. Disciple Dongmen Jiaqin learned of Yan's cleverness in order to tell his second son that he never dared to speak language and art in his life, but he always obeyed the rules. "

This is a story very much like modern robot science fiction. "Luban made a wooden bird" and its related stories are often mentioned. For example, it is mentioned in "Mozi Lu Wen pian": "The loser cuts bamboo and wood, thinking it is a magpie, and it will fly three days later." Wang Yun's "On the Balance of Confucianism" said: "Skillful workers are the mother wooden carts, and wooden people are the rulers. All the organs were equipped and the mother was carried. If she can't bring it back, she will lose her mother. " There is also a record in Youyang Miscellaneous Notes in the Tang Dynasty: "Lu painted a floating picture in Liangzhou as a wooden kite, hitting the wedge three times each time and taking it home. Nothing happened. His wife was pregnant, her parents scolded her, and her wife told her the reason. His father presented kites, stuffed the remaining ten into them and took them to Wu Hui. Wu people thought it was a demon and killed it. Like a wooden kite, I got my father's body. Blaming Wu for killing his father, he became immortal in southern Suzhou and denounced the drought in southeast and Wu for three years. People say: it's like doing everything. It's a great thank you. It's like a broken hand, and it rains heavily in Wuzhong under the moon. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the natives were still praying for their Muxian. During the Six Kingdoms period, the public transport class was also a wooden kite to see Song Cheng. "

The description of Zhuge Liang's wooden ox flowing horse in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also full of sci-fi meaning: "The method of wooden ox flowing horse says:' Square belly curve, one foot four feet; The head is in the collar and the tongue is in the abdomen. Take more and do less: a single traveler is dozens of miles, and a group traveler is twenty miles. The machete is a cow's head, two are cow's feet, the horizontal one is a cow's collar, the rotating one is a cow's foot, the square one is a cow's belly, the tongue is hung, the machete is a cow's rib, the carving knife is a cow's tooth, the vertical one is a cow's horn, and the thin one is a cow's martingale. The photographer is a cow's autumn axis. Cattle head up, six steps, cattle four steps. Each cow carries food for ten people for a month. If people don't work hard, cows won't eat. "The Floating Horse Law says,' The ribs are three feet five inches long, three inches wide and two inches thick: the left and right are the same. The front axle hole is divided into four inches and two inches in diameter. The front foot hole is divided into two inches, the front axle hole is four inches and five minutes, and the width is one inch. The front bumper hole is divided into two inches and seven points except the front foot hole. The hole is two inches long and one inch wide. The rear axle hole is divided into one foot and five minutes without the front bumper, and the size is the same as before. The rear foot hole is divided into ink, and the rear shaft hole is three inches and five minutes, the size is the same as before. The rear bumper hole is divided into two inches and seven points when removing the foot hole, and the rear bumper hole is divided into four inches and five points. The front bumper is one foot eight inches long, two inches wide and one inch thick for five minutes. Rear bumper and so on. Two square capsules, eight minutes thick, two feet seven inches long, one foot six inches five minutes high and one foot six inches wide: each capsule holds two meters and three buckets. Remove seven inches from the rib hole: the same before and after. The upper hole is one foot three inches, the hole is one inch five minutes long and seven minutes wide: the eight holes are the same. The front and rear feet are two inches wide and one inch and a half thick. The shovel is shaped like an elephant, four inches long and four inches and three minutes in diameter. The tripod in the aperture is two feet one inch long, one inch five minutes wide and one inch four minutes thick, which is the same as the lever ear. " "

These fantasies, which were ahead of the times and based on the science at that time, were enough to open our eyes. Below, we cite a few ancient China science fiction stories that researchers rarely mention.

Duan Anjie of the Tang Dynasty wrote in Yuefu Miscellanies: "Puppet, once upon a time, Yun Qi's ancestor Yu Hanzu was surrounded by Mao Dun in Pingcheng. One side of the city, that is, E Shi, Morton's wife, is better than three sides. A hunger strike at the base. When Chen Ping learned that E Shi was jealous, she made a puppet man, brought a mechanical shovel and danced in it. When E Shi saw this, he said he was a stranger. He was worried that his city would take a prostitute in a rash, so he retired. "

We don't doubt that in the era of Emperor Gaozu, the ancients made puppets. But if the puppets are exactly the same as the real people, we must convince the Xiongnu Empress that they are real people, and they will be jealous and beat back the tens of thousands of troops besieged by the city. Don't say that it was impossible at that time, and the current technology may not be able to do it. This story can be regarded as an ancient robot science fiction story that Yanshi created man.

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Zhang Hua of the Western Jin Dynasty mentioned in his Miscellanies of Natural History: "As the old saying goes, there are people who live in Haizhu recently, and there are ups and downs in August every year, so we must not lose time. People have strange aspirations, set up a flying pavilion on the fork and take the fork to eat more. After more than ten days, I still look at the stars, the moon and the sun. Since then, I have been wandering around, feeling day and night. After more than ten days, I went to a place where I was elected. There are walls, and my family is very strict. Looking into the palace, I saw many weavers and a husband, Penny Zhu Ji, drinking. The cow was surprised and asked, "How did you get here?" The man saw the purpose of his visit and asked where it was. Answer:' You will know when you go back to Shudu and arrive in Yan Junping.' I didn't go ashore because it was still going as planned. Later, when I arrived in Shu, I asked Junping and said,' One day, the guest star made a mistake and stayed with the cow. Counting the years, this man arrived in Tianhe. "

Wang Jia of the Eastern Jin Dynasty wrote: "Yao ascended the throne for 30 years, and there was a huge cheque floating in the West Sea, with light like stars and moons on it. Often floating around the world, twelve years a week, cycle after cycle, known as penetration of the moon, also known as hanging stars. Feather people inhabit it, and the gods wash it with dew, and the light of the sun and the moon is like a sigh. In the midsummer, I don't remember its existence, and those who swim in the sea still inherit their immortality. "

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Liang Zonggu's Chronicle of Jingchu: "Liang Wudi ordered Zhang Qian to travel in summer to find the source of the river. When he arrived at a place next to the moon, he saw the city wall as a state capital, and there were women weaving in the room, and the husband drank the river with cows. Qian asked, "Where is this?" Answer: "Ask Yan Junping." But with a machine stone. When I arrived in Shu, I asked Jun Ping,' One year, a guest star made a cow girl.' The supporting stone is known to Dong Fangshuo. "

Zhen Fan, the king of the Tang Dynasty, wrote: "Yan Zunxian Tea placed in Linde Hall in the Tang Dynasty is more than 50 feet long, and its sound is like copper and iron, but it is not abrupt. Li Deyu cut off more than a foot of twigs and carved them into statues, often flying back and forth. Since the light, it has been lost, and if it has already flown away. "

If the color of fairy magic is removed, the fairy cha in these records is very similar to the flying saucer in modern science fiction.

Another example is the record of "Qibao Lingtan" in Yi Shizhen's "Tiantan Library" in the Yuan Dynasty: "Xie Shuang has several Qibao Lingtan records with words on them, which can be touched at will. The words are really cursive and satisfactory. For example, if a person wants to practice Buddhism, it will make him examine himself. In a few days, he will have words and be tempted by fate. Another example is that if you want something, there will be the words "you can buy it somewhere" in the newspaper. For example, if you want to cure a patient, or if you want to do a trick, the words will say what medicine to take, what spells to read and what symbols to write. Even when I forget a word in reading, it will be displayed. First frost returns to treasure. "

In this case, from the current point of view, it is very similar to computers and the Internet.

Due to the limitation of the times, it is impossible to use modern words in China's ancient science fiction stories, such as laser, holography, robots, flying saucers, aliens and so on. When they fantasize about these things, they use other words they are used to instead. For example, flying saucers are called fairy tea, pearls and fireballs. Telescopes are called mirrors; Robots are called puppets, puppets and iron crowns; And aliens, more called feather people, ghosts and gods. The author thinks that sci-fi thinking is universal in the collective unconscious of human beings, regardless of countries. China ancient people's whimsy about science and technology, if not real science fiction, can at least be regarded as a science fiction story of that era.