Chop your hands when littering. Some people make a fortune by picking up rubbish. Tell me about how ancient people handled garbage.

A careful study of history reveals that Jin Yong did not lie here. Many historical data prove that the clean and elegant quality of life in China in the Ming Dynasty was indeed ahead of the world, which was greatly appreciated by many Europeans. To paraphrase a Spanish scholar Mendoza: First of all, they are extremely clean, not only at home, but also in the street. ?

And created this in the Ming dynasty? Extremely clean and high-quality life is a powerful ability of ancient cities in China, which has been far ahead of the world for thousands of years: urban garbage disposal capacity.

The history of urban garbage disposal in China can be traced back to Shang Dynasty. According to "Everything is wrong? There is a record in the theory of internal storage:? Yin's method, punishment abandons ash in Tao. ? Yin method, those who abandon ash break their hands with pottery. ? Ashes are rubbish. According to Han Feizi, if people dump garbage in the street at will, they will be punished by breaking their hands. Later, this law was inherited by Shang Yang. In his Qin Law, it was stipulated that people should not throw rubbish on the street at will, otherwise they would get tattoos on their faces.

In addition, in the Shang Dynasty, people began to consciously use feces. According to the great book of victory? There was a drought in Tang Tang. As a regional field, Yi Yin taught people to grow manure and water crops. There is no need to cultivate good fields because the manure in the regional fields is beautiful. ? In order to accumulate fertilizer, people began to build toilets and set strict construction standards. Public toilets should be built far away from roads, and the wall height of civil toilets must be more than 2.7 meters. The cesspit in the toilet should be dug deep to facilitate recycling and fertilization.

With the development of cities, people pay more and more attention to urban environmental management. On the bronzes unearthed in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there are already cleaning patterns, indicating that someone has been responsible for handling urban garbage. By the Zhou Dynasty, the earliest institution specialized in garbage disposal appeared in history. "Zhou Li? Qiu Guan Records:? There are six corporal Wolff, six professionals and sixty disciples. ? A wolf? Our duty is to clean up the rubbish in the city streets and keep the city clean.

Comparing the history of ancient Europe, we can see the quality of life of China people.

The Roman Empire, which was contemporary with China, Qin and Han Dynasties, had a special custom? After ordinary people excrete at home, they dump it directly from the window. After the fall of the Roman Empire, this custom spread all over Europe for thousands of years.

Walking on the streets of medieval European cities at that time, I was a little careless, that's all? Misfortune fell from the sky? . At that time, the European people were right about this? Falling objects? There is nothing to do. London, Paris, Rome, Berlin and other cities that now look neat, stinking at that time. It is said that during the 1776 American War of Independence, American politician Franklin came to France in a hurry to ask for help. When he first entered Paris, he was stunned by the rubbish on the spot. If it hadn't been rescued in time, it would have been like this. But before he conquered, he was dead? .