The evolution of vehicle driving rules;
The pre-Qin ancient book "Examination of Gong Ji" contains: "Craftsmen govern the country, and the square is nine miles, and the sequence is three." Press three doors, that is, three doors outside the city. Three doors and three roads, men from the right, women from the left and cars from the middle. This should be the earliest record of the separation of people and vehicles and the branch of pedestrians (men and women) in the traffic history of China.
Before Emperor Taizong, pedestrians and vehicles on the road were not divided, relying on "Jin pager to warn pedestrians". (The Legend of the Tang Dynasty, Volume 23), that is, assign special personnel to call in the streets of the city to maintain pedestrian traffic order and guard against defense.
The walking rule of "the door enters from the left and the door exits from the right" was first advocated by Ma Zhou in the early Tang Dynasty. "From left to right, the city gates are all surrounded by laws."
In the Song Dynasty, "going from left to right" was still confined to the city gate checkpoint, and pedestrians on the street were not divided. During the period of rejuvenating the country in Song Taiping, Kong Chenggong, the founder of Dali Temple, wrote that please carve a list on the main roads of two cities and states, and announce the "four taboos" of "avoiding expensive, avoiding long, avoiding heavy and avoiding coming" as traffic laws.
Today's "right path":
First, the ancients used to worship rights, with rights as the biggest, best and first. Take the "right surname" as the surname and noble family; Free writing to the left, right first; Then move to the left, downgrade and so on, so. Choose "alignment" according to people's wishes;
2. 19 Before the British colonial rule introduced the "Left Way" to the international concessions in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1920s and 1940s, China people were mostly left-handed. Later, due to the infiltration of British forces into China, it was once changed to "left-leaning method";
Third, in 35 years of the Republic of China (A.D. 1946), the Kuomintang government changed the left-wing behavior into the right-wing behavior again according to the political needs (American aid) and the actual situation (people complained a lot about the left-wing law), which has been maintained until now.