Garbage sorting is too troublesome. How did ancient people sort garbage?

Recently, garbage sorting has become popular in all parts of China. It is said that many areas are greatly influenced by garbage sorting, because now garbage must be sorted first and then discarded, which makes it difficult for many people to get used to it. Speaking of garbage, in ancient times, ordinary people suffered a lot from garbage. For example, Chang 'an existed as the capital for a long time, but it was abandoned because there was too much garbage in Chang 'an to be treated normally. So how did ancient people deal with garbage?

The Regulations on the Management of Domestic Waste in Shanghai will be officially implemented on July 1, which means that waste classification will be included in the legal framework, and Shanghai take-away distribution will no longer actively provide disposable chopsticks, spoons and other tableware.

In this regard, some people applaud, while others are confused about how to classify. There are even various garbage classification tutorials on the Internet.

Even gave birth to a new occupation-garbage collection network contract workers.

Then, in ancient times when garbage classification was not so detailed and there was no garbage collection contract, how was garbage treated? What is the state of urban environment?

Is the picture that comes to your mind a clean and tidy street? There is no automobile exhaust in the breath, only fresh natural breath. Ah! Poetry and the distance!

If you are so optimistic about the ancient environment, then the following content may surprise you.

In the pre-Qin period, the city was quite large and the population began to become dense.

Where there are people, there will be a lot of domestic garbage.

In order to protect the environment, the rulers at that time made quite strict laws.

"History of the Five Elements of Han Dynasty": "It is embarrassing to abandon the ashes in the Tao in the Shang Dynasty."

Ashes are rubbish; Tattooing and smearing ink on a person's face is one of the five ancient punishments.

Nowadays, littering everywhere is only looked down upon by a few passers-by, and the maximum penalty is a little money. But in the Shang Yang era, littering had to be tattooed on the face to tell everyone that "this person is uncivilized".

It is also mentioned in "everything is done by Han Fei-zi's theory of Tibet": "Yin's method, those who abandon ash to learn from Tao, break their hands."

In other words, throwing garbage on the road is chopping hands.

Even with such cruel laws, it is still difficult to ensure that the roads are completely clean and tidy, so the post "Wolf House" was set up at that time.

In Qiu Guan, Zhou Li, there are some records about "Wolf's Family".

"There are six corporal Wolff, six professionals and sixty disciples."

"When the king came in and out, there were eight people, six people, four people, Hou and Bo, and two fathers and sons."

In the Qing Dynasty, Gu explained in Rizhi Road Street: "The ancient king had wolves on the road in the middle of the country in order to clean the wolf from the road and make it clean." Polyester washing products; Wolf's domineering refers to people or things scattered vertically and horizontally.

It can be seen that the responsibility of "Wolf House" is to clear roads and drive away pedestrians, which is a combination of sanitation workers and urban management.

In the pre-Qin period, sewage and rainwater were also discharged from sewers.

The sewage in the sewer can't be discharged. What should I do if it stinks?

This really happened.

Eight hundred years after Chang 'an in Han Dynasty, due to the crowded population, low terrain, poor drainage and serious pollution of garbage and feces, "the water is salty and not very pleasant".

So in the early years of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty, the old Chang 'an City, which was difficult to deal with the sewage discharge problem, was abandoned, and the capital was moved to Daxing City, where the terrain was higher.

"And Korea camped in this city, there will be eight hundred years of history, the water here is very salty, not very pleasant. May your majesty cooperate with the heart of heaven and man as a plan for migration. " -"Sui Shu"

Chang 'an in the Tang Dynasty was the largest city in the world at that time, with a population of several million.

In such a huge city, the amount of garbage generated every day can never be underestimated.

In order to deal with the garbage problem, the state has promulgated corresponding laws and regulations, which are as strict as those in the pre-Qin period.

According to "Discussion on Tang Law", people who throw garbage in the street will be punished by 60 boards, while people who pour water will not be punished. If law enforcers condone littering, they should also be punished together.

"On the Law of the Tang Dynasty": "Those who go through the wall are sixty sticks; No matter who comes out of the water. The master has to commit the same crime. "

In the Tang Dynasty, there were also people who took recycling garbage and disposing of excrement as their profession, and some people became rich and became millionaires.

"In the Ruling and Opposition": "Chang 'an will enrich the people and take dung removal as a career. "

"Taiping Guangji": "Pei Liming, a native of Hedong, is good at running a business, collecting discarded things in the world, and making a lot of money."

In order to manage the city's environmental sanitation, the Song Dynasty set up a special agency: Street Department.

There are full-time sanitation workers under the street division of labor, whose duties include sweeping the street, diverting stagnant water and rectifying the city appearance.

In big cities like Kaifeng and Lin 'an, hundreds of sanitation workers clean streets and dispose of garbage every morning.

In addition, according to Lu, the domestic garbage and feces produced by urban residents every day are also handled by special personnel.

"Liang Lu's Dream": "People are so sweet that they have their own enemies to discuss. Hang Cheng has a large number of registered permanent residence, which is Wang's home in the streets. There are many toilets that have no pits and only use toilets. People who have their own excrement discharged every day are called' tipping their feet'. "

Every spring, the government regularly arranges workers to dredge ditches to avoid water accumulation in the city.

"Dream of Liang Lu": "During the Spring Festival, in the streets and alleys, the government sent Taoqu people to cross the canal along the door; Road sludge, poor hire boats to carry rural leisure places. "

A "mini-car" was mentioned in Qingbo Magazine. Before "mini-cars", some people were asked to pick up water tanks and rotate them to avoid dust flying.

Qingbo magazine cool shirt: "It used to be said that there were cars on the side, and several people in the front row were holding water tanks and spinning past cars to avoid blooming flowers."

Is this description familiar?

The so-called "compact car" is just a kind of semi-mechanical and semi-human sprinkler.

"After the rain, dirt was everywhere, and mud splashed on the waist and abdomen. It is sunny for a long time, dusty and unpredictable. " This is a record of the capital of song dynasty (now Kaifeng) in the Ming dynasty's notebook Wanli bian.

When it rains, it is full of feces and mud, which will splash on your body; On a sunny day, when the wind blows, the dust is all over your face. This is the urban environment of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, in order to improve the environment, the Ming people still made a lot of efforts.

There are advanced drainage pipes in the capital of Ming Dynasty.

Urban and rural garbage disposal has formed a complete industrial chain. Take garbage and feces as an example. One person is responsible for recycling garbage and feces in the city and then transporting them to the countryside for sale for breeding.

In addition, urban garbage will be classified, and all kinds of domestic garbage will be recycled by special personnel.

The Qing government changed the Tang law to "those who go through the wall and pollute, stick 60" and change it to 40.

However, its implementation is very suspicious, because the sanitary condition of urban streets in Qing Dynasty seems to be worse than that in Ming Dynasty.

Yanjing Miscellaneous Notes: "Everything swept by others obviously falls outside the door, with stove ashes and broken porcelain tiles piling up like mountains. The street is more than a foot higher than the house, and people follow the footsteps, such as falling into a pit valley. "

This roughly means that people sweep the garbage directly from home to the road, and finally the urban road is higher than the houses on both sides.

This may have exaggerated elements, but we can also see the garbage pollution at that time.

In Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty, because the drainage system was too old, ditches were dug every February and March to dry the dirty things inside. It tastes sour and refreshing.

Even on weekdays, there is always a smell of urine in Beijing, and people dump domestic garbage and cinders on the street.

At the end of Guangxu, the government set up a street sweeper to cooperate with the department in charge of environmental sanitation, and the situation improved.