There are frequent famines and plagues in Ningzhou, with hundreds of thousands of dead. That? When the food in the city runs out, the rats pull out the grass to eat? Such as mirror, Yongjia four years (AD 3 10),? You, He, Si, Ji, Qin and Yong are big locusts that eat all kinds of plants, cows and horses. As a mirror, you can say that you eat whatever you see; Yongjia six years (AD 3 12)? There is a flood in Youzhou, and people don't eat? The book of Jin is also terrible. There are countless examples of this. Hunger is enough to make people break down and do anything incredible. Many areas appear? Is it easy to eat? 、? People eat people? The human tragedy in the book of Jin.
It can be seen that whenever there was a serious famine in ancient times, rats, bark and grass roots were all used as food by hungry people, and even many people ate Guanyin soil. After all these are eaten up, there will be a human tragedy of changing children to eat under unbearable hunger. You can imagine how horrible it is to encounter famine. With the thinking of modern people, why are ancient people so stupid? Why don't people go hunting in the mountains or catch fish in the river to satisfy their hunger? Ancient productivity was backward.
Ancient agricultural technology is still in a very primitive state, and all of them use human and animal power for farming. The same is true for fishing and hunting, which is nothing more than using auxiliary equipment such as crossbows, bows, boar sets, frog sets, mousetraps and slingshots. You can imagine such a scene: in ancient times, information was relatively blocked, and ordinary people could not know exactly when there would be famine in advance. When the famine came, it was widespread. When a person is hungry and weak, he can try fishing and hunting. You should know that hunting is not an overnight event, and it takes time and physical strength to support it. Just don't starve to death halfway.
The dynasty sealed off the famine area. Besides labor, farming also depends on the weather. If natural disasters such as droughts and floods occur in any year and any place, or man-made disasters such as war and chaos, the grain output will be greatly reduced, and then famine will occur.
Whenever there is a famine in an area, the rulers of the dynasty will block the area to prevent the hungry people from fleeing and cause a wider famine. We assume that if there is a famine, the hungry people in this area will go hunting to satisfy their hunger. On the premise that there is no food to eat at all, there will be fewer fish caught in the river and fewer wild animals caught in the mountains. Then what should we eat after eating all the rare birds and animals?
We all know that hens can lay eggs. If we eat hens, are there any eggs left to eat? The real solution is that with the help of the current dynasty, people in this area can survive this famine until they plant crops. Agriculture is the foundation of ancient countries. In the dynasties of the Central Plains, farming and agriculture were the basis for feeding the people of that country. Agricultural development is the foundation of the country. There are many people to feed and a large population base, so the dynasty can be strong.
In ancient times, most ordinary people lived a farming life where they worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. Due to the limited climate and arable land, only a few areas in Shan Ye make a living by hunting. Besides, civilians in most areas mainly make a living by agriculture. During the famine, civilians lost the basic conditions for survival. At this time, tell them to put down their hoes and pick up crossbows to hunt and satisfy their hunger. The wild animals on the mountain will not be endless, nor will they wait quietly to catch them, so the success rate will not be high. In the final analysis, hunting to satisfy hunger is a whim and cannot satisfy the huge and long-term hungry people.
Take ancient North Turkistan as an example, because of the local climate, it is not suitable for farming. Local people live by herding cattle, sheep and horses. This is a self-contained ecosystem, because grass feeds sexual animals and livestock feeds people, and it is endless. So is the famine in the Central Plains. Everyone can only solve temporary problems, and the final result is only to destroy the ecological balance and make the environment worse.
Life is always looking for a way out. If there is a locust plague, the affected area is often a barren land. The plague of ancient locusts had a great influence. Without spraying pesticides, locusts will be everywhere and nothing will grow. It may also be natural or man-made disasters. When the victims are hungry, they will eat up all the grass roots and bark in this area. Based on the principle that life is always looking for a way out, these locusts, mice, birds and animals are also members of life. When they find that there is nothing to eat in this area, they will not stay where they are. They will migrate in large numbers to find food elsewhere.
Summary: Hunting is trapping, shooting with crossbows, hunting and other means. No matter birds and locusts in the sky or birds and beasts in the mountains, it is not easy to hunt. Human society has developed from ancient hunting times to farming to solve the problem of food and clothing. This is a way of life that has experienced the life experience of countless ancestors and gradually eliminated the past. It is also a way to ensure that people can eat and survive to a greater extent. It shows that hunting is just a drop in the bucket and cannot solve the problem of large-scale famine.
When the famine occurred, it was difficult to take effective disaster relief measures in time due to factors such as the resilience or mobilization and execution ability of the feudal society of the dynasty. When there is a large-scale famine in the disaster area, people eat bark, grass roots and Guanyin soil out of survival instinct, and even eat it in serious cases. It can be seen that there is nothing that hungry people dare not eat or don't want to eat. With the wisdom of the ancients, there is no problem of counting on hunting to satisfy hunger. The real problem is that every time God tries to chop people down, there is nothing he can do.