Author: Zhao Yuntao recently won the Hugo Award for Chinese science fiction writers at the 81st World Science Fiction Congress held in Chengdu, Sichuan. This is the third time that Chinese science fiction writers have won the world's highest award in the field of science fiction. If we turn our attention to historical classics, we will suddenly realize that ancient Chinese people had imaginations that were full of imagination, and their science fiction and creative abilities were not weak at all. Nowadays, artificial intelligence "robots" are popular, but in fact, ancient Chinese people had similar creativity and imagination. As this world's highest standard science fiction event is held in China, we may wish to recall what "robots" were imagined and actually produced by ancient people in various dynasties. A story about the Zhou Dynasty was written in the Han Dynasty's "Liezi". A person named Yanshi built a "robot" for King Mu of Zhou, who could sing and dance. When performing for King Mu of Zhou, it secretly winked at his left and right concubines. King Mu of Zhou was furious and wanted to kill Yan Shi. Yan Shi hurriedly explained that this is a dummy. If you don't believe it, open it and take a look. After dismantling it, King Mu of Zhou discovered that the "robot" was made of leather, wood, glue, lacquer, white, black, Dan, and Qing. The liver and gallbladder, heart and lungs, spleen and kidneys, intestines and stomach, muscles and bones, limb joints, fur, teeth and hair were all fake. When King Mu of Zhou took out his heart, he couldn't speak. When he took out his liver, he couldn't see anything. When he took out his kidney, he couldn't walk. From this perspective, this robot is extremely advanced. The correspondence between the five viscera and physical activity reflects the ancient people's understanding of the human body. The "taxi" in the Han Dynasty stone carvings - the "Ji Li Drum Car" - was a measuring tool invented by ancient people to calculate mileage. The author provides a picture of King Mu of Zhou from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Let's take a look at another example from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. According to the Records of the Collection of Cultural Relics, during the reign of King Ling of Zhou, there was a jade figure named "Ji Yan" who could rotate on her own. Let's take a look at the "robots" of the Qin Dynasty. According to the "Miscellaneous Records of Xijing" during the Han and Jin dynasties, Liu Bang entered Xianyang Palace and discovered many treasures in the treasury of the Qin Dynasty. Among them, there were twelve bronze figures, all three feet tall (about 70 centimeters according to Qin's measurements), sitting on the same mat. Each person holds a musical instrument, either qin or zhu, sheng or yu. The bronze man's clothing is gorgeous, like that of a real person. There are two copper pipes under the mat, with the upper pipe opening several feet above the ground and protruding from behind the mat. One of the pipes is empty, and there is a rope as thick as a finger inside it. One person plays the air pipe, the other twists the rope, and the qin, sheng, and yu will all play together, just like the music played by a real person. According to the "Miscellaneous Records of Yuefu" in the Duan An Festival of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han, conquered the Xiongnu and was besieged in Pingcheng. Counselor Chen Ping came up with a plan. He knew that the wife of the Xiongnu leader was jealous, so he created a beautiful "robot" to dance in the city. Sure enough, when the wife of the Xiongnu leader saw it, she thought it was a real person. She was worried about capturing the city and Shan Yu would accept this woman as a concubine, which would affect her status. Therefore, she advised Shan Yu to withdraw from the army. In this way, Chen Ping relied on this dancing "robot" to solve Liu Bang's siege of Pingcheng. Li Song's "Skeleton Fantasy Drama" depicts the particularly prosperous folk art of the Song Dynasty, known as "puppet drama", depicting scenes where a large skull controls a small skull. The author provides a picture of Wang Chong's "Lunheng" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which records that during the Han Dynasty, Li Zichang invented