In the long-term production activities, the ancients gradually realized the importance of protecting forests and biological resources? Have a preliminary awareness of environmental protection and take some protective measures?
Since ancient times, our ancestors began to have the idea of protecting the natural ecological environment?
This kind of thinking is often unconscious, even with a strong superstitious color? For example, ancient people used mountains and rivers to worship gods?
When Shang Tang was a vassal, he once went for a walk in the suburbs and found someone catching birds with a net? To Shang Tang's surprise, there are not one net, but four nets, which tend to be surrounded from all directions?
For birds, there is only a way in, but no way out?
However, what surprised Shang Tang even more was that the bird catcher was still muttering to himself: "Let all the birds in the world enter my net, the more the better, the bigger the better, the fatter the better?"
This aroused Shang Tang's sympathy?
He said to the bird catcher, "don't you want to catch all the birds in the world by catching birds like this?" So he asked the bird catcher to remove three of the four sides? He also told the bird catcher that he should say, "If you want to fly left, fly left, if you want to fly right, fly into my net!" " "
When the news reached the governors' ears, they all praised Shang Tang for biting the hand that feeds them and giving them to the governors, so they all joined in? Later, the tribes in Shang Tang became more and more powerful and established the Shang Dynasty?
The story of Shang Tang opening the net on three sides is the earliest record of protecting natural resources in ancient China? In fact, when people in ancient times obtained the means of production and living, they constantly intervened in the natural environment, which in turn had some adverse effects? This has prompted some people of insight to pay more and more attention to how to prevent the further deterioration of people's living environment.
There are records about the protection of biological resources in many ancient books in China? For example: Shangshu? Historical records? According to Mencius, Shun named Boyi as "Yu", that is, the official in charge of plants, animals, insects and fish in Shanze. Boyi once set fire to some mountain forests to drive away poisonous snakes and beasts?