Small Wander. Chinese Small Wander: Legend.
Huang Di (the Yellow Emperor) Invented The Cart
黃帝造車 （神話故事）
It is believed that the forefather of the Chinese nation is Huang Di (the Yellow Emperor), also known as Xuan Yuan Shi. In the reign of Huang Di, inventions were beyond number.
Once Huang Di came to the neighborhood of Kong San, when the days were windy. He saw a kind of grass called a fleabane blown up and spinning in the air.
He was aroused and conceived the idea of using wheels to replace walking and thus invented the first cart. Later, during the reign of the sages Yao and Shun, horses and oxen were used instead of man to pull the cart.
Many of the officials serving Huang Di ingenious inventors. Huang Di asked one, Ling Lun to work out a music temperament. Ling Lun went to the north side of the Kun-lun Mountains and found in the valley a kind of straight hollow bamboos of even thickness. He cut the bamboos into different lengths. The tunes he blew were in exact harmony with the song of the phoenix. Thus were established the twelve temperaments.
When Huang Di met with Empress Xi (the West Empress) at Mount Wang Wu, he ordered Yin Shou to cast twelve big mirrors to illuminate the spectacular feast at the grand palace.
In the reign of Huang Di, there were three celebrated doctors. One was Yu Fu, who knew how to dissect and treat illness of the vital organs of the human body. Another was Lei Gong, who was very proficient in the knowledge of the passages through which vital energy circulates. Still another was Qi Bo, who wrote Ben Cao (On Herbal Medicine) and Su Wen (On Vegetarianism) after tasting a great variety of plants and herbs.
The most famous of officials serving Huang Di was Cang Jie. When still a baby, Cang Jie was already scribbling here and there. When he grew up, he drew on his palm designs of the starts he could see in the night sky, or of the patterned lines on the turtles shell, birds feathers and the configuration of the mountains and rivers. All these experiences led him to invent the Chinese characters.
Cang Jies invention of the Chinese characters turned out to be a terrible shock to the deities who hastily poured down a shower of millet, and the ghosts on Earth were so scared that they moaned and groaned all night long.
To commemorate his victory over Chi You, Huang Di ordered that bronze be mined and a treasured tripod be cast with it. All around the surface of the tripod were engraved reliefs of dragons soaring up to the clouds, the spirits and deities from all quarters and exotic birds and grotesque animals.
At the meeting celebrating the successful casting of the treasured tripod, there appeared all of a sudden from the clouds a divine dragon. When Huang Di mounted on its back, it began to rise slowly up to the sky. People vied with one another in trying to hold back the dragon. But however hard they tried, it was to no avail, except pulling off some of the dragons whiskers, which immediately turned into Long Xi Cao (Dragons Whisker Grass) on touching the ground.