But here's the problem. Everyone is sleeping at night. Why did they have to play in ancient times? Besides, does the night watchman work overtime just to tell you the time? What are their duties?
In fact, don't underestimate the matter of playing overtime. Watching TV plays and working overtime seems simple, but in fact it is very particular. As we all know, the role of the night watchman is mainly to tell the time for everyone. In ancient times, conditions were limited, and people were used to timing or telling the time by leaking water, which measured time by dripping water.
In ancient times, watchmen had a hard time. They can't sleep at night, but they have to watch out for lost prints all the time, so as to grasp the accurate time and tell the time for everyone in time. The real watchman in history, unlike in TV series, is just a person who works overtime. In fact, the night watchman usually works in groups of two, one for gong and the other for gong. It takes two people to work together when playing the night shift, knocking while walking.
The night watchman knocks five times, once an hour on average (one hour in ancient times is equal to two hours in modern times). When you knock at the door for the first time, it means it's dark. Everyone should close the door and get ready for a rest. When you knock the fifth time, it means it will be dawn soon.
And every time I play overtime, I shout differently, instead of shouting all the time like in TV series? Be careful with candles when the weather is dry? . So how did they actually shout?
When you knock on a watch (19 -2 1), the night watchman will shout:? The weather is dry, be careful with candles! ?
At midnight (2 1 8: 00 -23: 00), the night watchman will shout:? Close the doors and windows to prevent theft! ?
At midnight (23: 00-1: 00), the night watchman will shout:? Safe and sound ?
When the clown (1 -3) strikes the fourth watch, the night watchman will shout:? The cold wave is coming, turn off the lights and close the door! ?
In Yin Shi (3: 00 -5: 00), the night watchman will shout:? Go to bed early and get up early to exercise! ?
Also, the rhythm of each shift is different, for example, when playing a shift, the rhythm is fast and slow; On the third night, it becomes a slow and fast; Playing five is slow and four is fast. People usually get up to do housework or go to work when they arrive at the fifth watch.
It is one of the duties of the night watchman to tell the time and remind everyone of safety. They also have a second responsibility, which is to be responsible for public safety.
When the night watchman works on the night shift, he works in various streets, but they also have their own? Work unit? , that is? Loulou? . The stupa is generally at the highest place in the city, which helps to observe the surrounding environment of the city. There are usually four people in the watchtower who are responsible for guarding the lost prints. These four people work in pairs, divided into day shift and night shift.
The watchman also tells the time in pairs, and the person in charge of guarding the missing engraving must report the time to the watchman in different places on time through a fixed signal. There can be no mistakes in these links, so the person who guards the missing engraving should also ensure that the missing engraving works normally.
Some watchtowers will station troops. At this time, the bellboy will be responsible for monitoring the surrounding environment. Once thieves or intruders are found, they can notify the garrison at the first time. In addition, the bellman's shouting at night shift, on the one hand, is to tell the time to remind everyone to pay attention to safety, on the other hand, it also has the function of warning thieves.
In addition to these two duties, the watchman also has an important role, that is, to prevent fires. The fire protection system in ancient times was not complete, almost all of them were wooden buildings, and the houses and shops were very crowded. If a fire breaks out in a house, it may soon affect the surrounding area. By the time the fire is really put out, I'm afraid a street has been burned.
In order to prevent fire, ancient people would put a big bucket, ladder, fire ditch and so on in densely populated places. But even so, if it is not found in time, it is still difficult to recover the loss. So the night watchman has this responsibility, and they need to remind people at the same time? Watch out for candles? At the same time, observe the surrounding area to see if there is any danger of fire.
Therefore, the real night watchman is very hard, and no one will know what they experienced on the last night. People don't even realize their existence, because when they work hard, everyone is sleeping. When they heard the sound of the fifth watch, people gradually woke up, but at this time the night watchman disappeared. Until that day passed, I heard the familiar sound of bangzi again, and that sentence? Be careful with candles when the weather is dry?