Why is the hourglass in Zhou Wenwang different from ours?

Because Zhou Wenwang only exists in the three-body game, he just represents a three-body world reincarnation of a "seemingly solved three-body", and this Zhou Wenwang has nothing to do with Zhou Wenwang in the history of China. I think Zhou Wenwang is just a netizen who follows a role in the book "Three-body" game. Such as Copernicus and Newton.

And maybe they don't know what the three-body world in the novel looks like, so except for the description of creatures, others may be based on the earth. Therefore, I personally think that the hourglass of Zhou Wenwang in "Three-body" may not be much different from our hourglass, because it may refer to our model.

Three-body is a series of novels written by Liu, which consists of Three-body, three body 2: Dark Forest and three body 3: Eternal Death. The first part was serialized in Science Fiction World in May 2006, the second part was first published in May 2008, and the third part was published on 20 165438.

The work tells about the information exchange between human civilization and three-body civilization on the earth, the life-and-death struggle and the rise and fall of the two civilizations in the universe. His first novel was translated by Liu Yukun and won the Best Novel Award in the 73rd Hugo Award.

20 19 was included in the Collection of 70 Novels in 70 Years of New China. In April 2020, it was listed in the Reading Guidance Catalogue for Primary and Secondary School Students of the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development Center of the Ministry of Education (2020 Edition).