In ancient China, in order to transmit military information, people used to set up beacon towers to transmit information with fire and smoke. The beacon tower burns wolf dung during the day and lights firewood at night. Legend has it that when burning wolf dung, a lot of smoke goes straight into the blue sky, which is easier to be found than the fire during the day, so the bonfire is sometimes called wolf smoke. Found the enemy lit a bonfire, spread from Taiwan Province to Taiwan Province, spread to the barracks. More than 2,700 years ago, the bonfire early warning system in China during the Zhou Dynasty was very complete.
Running a marathon is telling.
In ancient times when transportation and communication were underdeveloped, people had to rely on two legs or ride horses to transmit information. The marathon was set up to commemorate a hero who died more than 2,000 years ago and deliver good news. In 490 BC, the Greek army repelled the invasion of Persian King Darius I in Marathon Plain. Fidel Pitts, the messenger, ran from marathon to Athens, the capital, and reported the good news in one breath. When he ran 42.6438+095 kilometers, he rushed to Athens Square to finish the good news and fell to the ground exhausted and died. In order to commemorate the heroic deeds of this soldier, the distance he ran was listed as a long-distance running event at the first Olympic Games in the world in 1896.
Send information through the post office
The invention of writing promoted people's communication, and communication began from now on. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, China set up a special post station to deliver official documents, and rode the official documents from the post station to the post station. At the same time, a relatively complete post station system was established, which realized fast and accurate communication. After the Qin dynasty unified the six countries, the information transmission system of the post station was determined as the administrative organization of the country. Postal service transmits information at a speed of about15km per hour to realize long-distance communication. It was already fast at that time.
Pigeons and monkeys
In order to transmit information, ancient people also came up with many strange methods, such as drift bottles, signal trees, homing pigeons, monkeys and so on.
In Bekasa, Nigeria, people use monkeys to deliver letters. People keep the mother monkey and the son monkey in two places respectively, and often take the mother monkey to find the son monkey to let the mother monkey know the route. When people need to communicate, they put the letter in a bamboo tube and tie it to the mother monkey, so that she can go out and look for the baby monkey. The mother monkey can always deliver the letter to her destination.
Carrier pigeons have been an effective information transmission tool since ancient times. In today's highly developed communication technology, homing pigeons still have their own place. In war, communication is crucial. However, once a nuclear war breaks out, the strong electromagnetic radiation generated by the nuclear explosion will paralyze all kinds of existing electronic communication systems, but homing pigeons can still fly freely. The Swiss army trained and bred homing pigeons that can throw books in two directions. These homing pigeons no longer deliver traditional letters, but carry computer chips in capsules, and the password information in them can only be read on special equipment, which is extremely confidential. Carrier pigeons may even become special signalmen.
The emergence of the post office
It is generally believed that the post office was established by King cyrus the great of Persia. Ju Lushi ruled a huge empire, and the delivery of letters and information by messengers could no longer meet the needs of the empire. To this end, he established a postal management department composed of many post stations, which was the earliest post office. These stations are separated by a certain distance and are responsible for taking care of the post horses that run one stop every day.
China had a postal system long ago, and it was basically perfect in the Tang Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty also rectified the system of post stations connecting the East and the West.
In 3 1 year BC, during the reign of Augustus, the Romans modeled such institutions and established public post stations. The station is equipped with post horses that feed grass and guest rooms for past officials.
In the Middle Ages, Romanesque post offices disappeared and monasteries spread all over Europe. The communication between monasteries is carried out by using parchment scrolls called "sacrificial coffins". The first monastery wrote their rumors on a paper roll, and the monastery that served their rumors made the paper roll longer and longer. For example, the scroll conveying the death of the abbot of St. Hueros is 9.5 meters long and 0.25 meters wide. People call it the Monk Post Office.
Qing Post Office was founded in Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty (1862- 1875), and it was one of the thirteen post offices in Shanghai in Qing Dynasty. It has gone through different stages, such as private letter bureau, foreign post office, newspaper office, customs post office and Daqing post office. At present, it is the only remaining post office site of Qing Dynasty in East China, and it is also the epitome of modern postal history in China.
1878 (the fourth year of Guangxu in Qing dynasty), Yantai "Huayang Letters Library" set up a branch in Zhoucun, which was the predecessor of Zibo Post Office in Qing dynasty. /kloc-at the end of 0/900, Zhoucun Daqing Post Office opened. 1902 set up Boshan second-class Daqing post office, with two agencies and five mail counters in Badou and Xiye Street, including 2 village posts, 2 Yishui and Wangzhuang posts, and 4 Laiwu and Taian posts. On 1904, postal agencies were set up in pharmacies in Guang Shun, Xiguan, Linzi and Jiankangtang. The following year, Huantai set up third-class post offices and sub-offices in Zhangdian and Suozhen. Zhangdian Daqing Post Sub-office is located in Dongsi Street, Zhangdian Street, and handles letters and remittance business for merchants. Shizhou Village, Zichuan, Xincheng (Huantai) Town, Zhangdian and other bureaus belong to Jinan General Administration, while Boshan, Linzi, Jinling and He Zi belong to Qingzhou General Administration. ?
After the Revolution of 1911, "Qing Post Office" was renamed "Zhonghua Post Office". The post office is divided into four levels: postman, postman, postman and bureau clerk. The original Zhangdian Daqing Post Office moved to Nanbei Street. ?