It is said that in Jiangsu area, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs can be caught to satisfy hunger. In ancient times, famine was widespread, which was often followed by natural disasters, either drought or flood.
Flood, the flood is merciless, and countless people are drowned. Who dares to catch fish in the water? Drought, rivers and ponds dried up, and the fish had already run away!
In fact, animals will run away first. They have foresight about natural disasters and know them before others. According to the old man, a day or two before the earthquake, rats and snakes came out of their holes and lined up on the road, scrambling to escape.
In ancient times, it was a normal phenomenon that "there were no idle fields in the four seas and farmers starved to death".
First, in the farming era of feudal society, land annexation was serious. Farmers' fields are occupied by landlords, and yeomen account for about 30~40%, and there are many refugees who do farm work;
Second, ancient times
Natural disasters, famines, wars, plagues
Small farmers are rampant and vulnerable to natural disasters. At the end of each dynasty, almost all the people were in poverty, people's livelihood changed greatly, countless people starved to death and died of illness, and the population dropped sharply.
According to historical records, the population at the end of Ming Dynasty was 1 100 million. By the Qing Dynasty, there were only140,000 people left, with a sharp drop of more than 80% and a loss of more than 80 million people, which was shocking.
The ancients all starved to death, and few of them starved to death sporadically. They all met with great famine, large-scale war, and then large-scale death. 1, more than 10 million people starved to death, and 20 million people fled the famine in Ding Wu from 1, 877 to 1, 788.
For example, in the late Qing Dynasty, natural disasters continued. The Yellow River burst for three consecutive years; Drought in Shaanxi and Henan during Daoguang period: the great plague at the turn of salt and water; Strange famine in Ding Wu in the early years of Guangxu; Earthquakes, locusts, and countless people starved to death.
What can ancient hungry people do in the face of hunger?
First of all, there was no weather forecast in ancient times. The natural disaster came, there was nothing to do, and the court could do nothing. In the old society, as described in White Deer Plain, when the drought came, you had to ask the dragon king for rain, and when the flood came, you had to ask the river god for rain.
Just like boiling frogs in warm water, as the famine became more and more serious, ordinary people initially relied on themselves to carry them. People are iron rice steel, and they are hungry without food. Hungry for a day or two will soon become skin and bones.
If you can't carry it any longer, you can count on the court and local governments to give it. The emperor always says that he is the son of heaven at ordinary times, and the people are the people who are sent by heaven to rule them.
Then there was a catastrophe, and the people did not expect the court, let alone their parents. Who else can they expect to provide disaster relief?
Run away? This is the last road.
In ancient times, the common people had no choice. The biggest dream of farmers is "a cow in three acres of land, and his wife and children are hot on the kang". Many people have never even left the village, let alone the state capital.
Just ask you, a stranger, where are you going when you get married and have children?
Secondly, without food, hungry people took the first step to save themselves. While looking for neighbors, relatives and friends, see if it helps. Second, if there is no food, look for fruits and vegetables.
Melon, sweet potato, pumpkin, everyone who has been there knows that eating too much hurts the stomach. When the melons and vegetables were finished, they went to pick wild vegetables and went up the mountain to pick wild fruits.
Finally, look for animals, because animals are the most difficult to deal with. Tigers, leopards and wild boars on the mountain are beyond the ordinary people's thinking and can't be caught. Small animals like mice and frogs at most.
But in the end, famine broke out on a large scale, and Qian Qian opened his mouth, which was terrible. Wild vegetables and fruits have long been robbed, and small animals have also been robbed, leaving only the bark.
After the outbreak of famine, it is likely that the hungry people will be neglected, which will also lead to a plague. "White bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no crows in a thousand miles." It is not surprising that people change food in order to survive.
Finally, the hungry people scramble for food and nutrients.
Catch fish? Generally speaking, ancient fish were not difficult to catch.
Most of the ancient rivers were big rivers, and the Yellow River, Haihe River, Huaihe River and Zhanghe River flooded almost every year. In the famine year, did anyone go to the river to catch fish?
It's hard!
First of all, if there is a drought, it won't rain for several years. Farmland is cracked, rivers are dried up, grain is not harvested, and landlords have no surplus grain, not to mention ordinary people. What is even more frightening is that after the drought, locusts often haunt and devour everything, including young leaves.
When there is a drought and the river dries up, there is only a big river.
There was no electricity in ancient times, so don't think about electric fish; Ordinary people are not allowed to hide explosives. At that time, gunpowder was used to make firecrackers, let alone fry fish.
Fishing needs professional tools, and only fishermen have this ability. One is to use perch _, the other is to cast a net.
Except fishermen, ordinary people catch fish with their bare hands. Do you think a fish is stupid? You can't even catch the swimming champion. Even if you are lucky and catch a few fish, can you eat and cook a few meals?
Secondly, if it is a flood and the river overflows, it is even more impossible to catch fish in the river.
Some people say that we can go fishing. When we were young, we often went into the water to catch fish, shrimp and fish. Just for fun. If you want to catch it as food, it's impossible.
Once again, an old hungry man was so hungry that his stomach ached. It is whimsical to catch fish in the river with your bare hands, which is different from dying.
In short, in ancient times when people starved to death, all the fish that could be caught were taken away by hungry people. What can a fish in deep water do, even if it is a world swimming champion? Starving to death, not to mention ordinary people. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand the tragic events of starving people, selling children and girls and even bipedal sheep in ancient times.
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