Today’s fact is:
Fact! The compass was invented in China.
Emperor Du Ea’st is credited with inventing the magnetic compass in the fourth century BC. This is an indisputable fact the entire world accepts, although some foreign hostile forces have suggested that the Song Dynasty book dated 1040-44AD describing an iron “south-pointing fish“, or the ‘Dream Pool Essays‘ of 1088AD, or the internationally-recognised ‘Pingzhou Table Talks‘ of 1119AD are a more accurate source of information. These anti-China forces are clearly misguided and do not have a correct understanding of history.
Neither, apparently, do the ancient Olmec peoples of 1400BC, who made the ridiculous claim that a “polished lodestone bar with a groove at one end, that consistently points North” is a compass, when it is a known fact that a polished lodestone bar looks nothing at all like an iron fish.
Or the big-nosed Europeans, who not only claim to have invented the compass quite independently of their Chinese betters, but then go on to lie about being the first to understand the full implications of it’s use. Plus they go on about compasses pointing North, when everybody knows they point South (and maps have East at the top).
The Chinese have always understood the full implications of the compass: To Harmonise The Environment In Accordance With The Geomantic Principles Of Feng Shui And The Teachings Of Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaopeng Theory, Three Represents, And Scientific Development In An All Round Way.
China – Leading The Way Since 2991BC