According to the Records of the Historian, the earliest umbrella was called "cover", for example, "Qin, the minister of the five doctors, did not sit and ride while laboring, and did not open the cover during the summer". The "cover" here is an umbrella. When ancient emperors or important people went out, someone held a canopy behind them. According to the investigation, the canopy was originally the cover of the carriage on which the emperor sat. In ancient times, Chinese characters were connected with flower characters, and the canopy was the flower canopy. It is said that in the Yan and Huang Dynasties, the Yellow Emperor drove a chariot to fight with Chiyou where he was chasing deer. The top of the chariot that the Yellow Emperor was driving often appeared flashing colors, as if
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