{"id":18180,"date":"2025-05-26T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18180"},"modified":"2025-05-26T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:53:10","slug":"ancient-chinese-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18180","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Chinese Inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5 Ancient Chinese Inventions That Changed Everything!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/leKHKP3KO4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than the 4 great inventions of China (compass, gunpowder, paper, woodblock printing), toilet paper is also a popular invention of China, and here are more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Umbrella: \u9c81\u73ed 507-444 BC. Also invented \u6597\u6831\uff0c\u952f\u3002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paper money (\u4ea4\u5b50):  Song Dynasty, 1023 AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toothbrush: Tang Dynasty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hand Grenades: \u9707\u5929\u96f7 Song &amp; Jin Dynasty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mechanical clock: \u8607\u9882 1020-1101 AD, invented water clock, \u5929\u68af, from \u4e00\u884c\u3002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other than the 4 great inventions of China (compass, gunpowder, paper, woodblock printing), toilet paper is also a popular invention of China, and here are more: Umbrella: \u9c81\u73ed 507-444 BC. Also invented \u6597\u6831\uff0c\u952f\u3002 Paper money (\u4ea4\u5b50): Song Dynasty, 1023 AD &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18181,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180\/revisions\/18181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}