In 759 AD, Du Fu fled to Chengdu to live in order to escape the war. The next year, with the help of his friends, he built a thatched cottage-the protagonist in the famous autumn wind breaking the thatched cottage.
In the poem, Du Fu calls for solving the housing problem for himself and the more disadvantaged groups. In fact, according to Yunxian Miscellanies, his life at that time was not bad. Every day, he uses seven gold coins to buy half a basket of Huang Er rice and a string of fine fish. The food is quite good. What I want to talk about here is "a string of fine fish". Du Fu went to the market to buy fish. There was no basket-it was too heavy, and there was no plastic bag-no, but he grabbed a thatch from his hut and strolled to the market. He picked up the fish, propped it on the gills with thatch, and carried it away, which was light and environmentally friendly.
This way of transporting fish can also be seen in Water Margin. Zhang Shun met Li Kui jy, the black whirlwind, and Song Jiang, the underworld boss. Then he found the golden carp from the boat-"chose the four-tailed one and put on wicker" as a gift. "Dream of Tokyo" records that vendors selling live fish use willow branches with Ye Er to soak in wooden barrels full of fish ("When selling raw fish, use shallow barrels, string them with willow leaves and soak them in clear water"), and use the photosynthesis of willow leaves to increase the oxygen content in water, thus prolonging the life of fish. Presumably, when selling fish, you can also fold a willow branch in the bucket and tie the fish so that customers can carry it home comfortably.
If it is meat, there are other environmental protection plant packaging. For example, in Water Margin, the butcher Zheng was beaten to death. When he came to the butcher shop to pick a fight, he first asked for ten pounds of lean meat and ten pounds of fat meat. Zheng butcher's shop carefully cut into minced meat according to the requirements of land customers, and finally wrapped it with lotus leaves. Lotus leaves can be made in water, which is very cheap. It's cheap for packaging and clean for wrapping meat stuffing. At the same time, it also has a clear fragrance. The shrewd butcher Zheng not only saved the cost, but also protected the environment. By now, the newspapers must be praising him. Of course, the use of lotus leaves is not his initiative. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, there was a precedent of lotus leaf covering rice. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms in the autumn moon of the Tang Dynasty, "Jiankang made Kong Huan eat wheat crumbs, wrapped them in lotus leaves, wrapped them all night, and took Wan as a soldier". This kind of military service is even an anecdote in military history, and it is also a well-known environmental story.
Looking through the history books, we can also find some maverick environmentalists. According to Mei Lu Conghua, there was a great scholar in Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty. He used to be the teacher of the vassal, and his position was not low. Before he succeeded, he went to the market to buy rice every morning. It is not a basket or a cloth bag, but a hat on his head. History says, "You need to take off your broken hat and fill it like a can." Then he held it to his chest and strolled home.
Jia Sixie in the Northern Wei Dynasty "planted 30 mu, 10 A Mu a year, once every three years. The idea of "picking hundreds of silks every year, never ending" was inherited by the Tang people. They rarely cut down trees for reward, but dead branches are the first consideration for burning fire. There is such a poem in Chu Guangxi's "Qiao Fu Shi" included in the whole Tang poetry, "Dead branches are harvested for wages, and private knowledge is obtained in the room. "Lu Guimeng also mentioned a word called" raising "in his poem, which means that" the mountain people call raising firewood land "raising", saying that the woodcutter uses the mountain forest as a breeding base for recycling and gradually plants and cuts it down, instead of cutting it down at once.
In Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu practiced environmental protection with practical actions since childhood. When he learned to write, he wrote on the ground with a straw instead of a pen and paper. Of course, he didn't really do it because he knew about environmental protection, but he had to do it. "History of Song Dynasty" records that Ouyang Xiu "was born in a poor family and gave books on graphics", but objectively he did save a lot of pen and ink. Similar to Ouyang Xiu, there is Yue Fei. In the Qing Dynasty, Qian Cai wrote in Yue Chuan that Yue Fei chose to practice calligraphy with Hesha because of his poor family.
There is no doubt that the environmental calligrapher is Huai Su. In order to practice calligraphy, he planted 10 thousand banana trees on the wasteland. When the tree grew, he picked the leaves and spread them on the table as paper and ink. Originally, I had accumulated merits by planting trees, not to mention writing with leaves. I am a 100% environmentalist.
Speaking of writing, I have to mention Wang Xizhi. His luck is really bad. I don't know who arranged the story, which made Wang Xizhi take the blame for polluting the environment for no reason. It is almost well known that Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy hard and blackened a pool of water by washing his pen. In fact, there is no record of this matter in the biography of Wang Xizhi in the Book of Jin, but Zhang Zhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty, has a story of "learning from the middle school, and doing all the ink in the pool".
In the Song Dynasty, Liu recorded in The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties: "Every time the servant of Gao Jiong in Sui Dynasty put powder around him, he thought of a business and wrote on it. Tomorrow is a trip to the DPRK. " Senior officials are richer. They use flour instead of sand. I don't know if it is flour or powder, but it can be reused after all, which is much better than splashing ink on each other.
Su Dongpo once said: "In the past, people used seaweed as paper, but today it is gone." . The yield of seaweed is large, but the texture is too poor to be preserved easily. Although contaminated with the advanced nature of environmental protection, it is difficult to popularize and apply.
Ancient people's behavior of environmental protection shopping packaging and saving paper is worth learning.