How difficult the living conditions of ordinary people in ancient times were?

The road is frozen, displaced, and hungry. In ancient times, ordinary people were like ants, unable to meet their food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even had no place to redress their grievances.

In ancient times, when the common people drank water, they were all in the distant mountains to draw water, and the mountain road was very difficult to walk, a bucket of water took more than an hour.

Eating wild vegetables and drinking rice soup are considered good, in ancient times, it was really backward and there were so many kinds of oppression, and ordinary people had to pay all kinds of taxes, and it was already a good life to be full.

What is the boom? These are all deceptive, there can be no fans in the prosperous era, there is no productivity in ancient times, the population in ancient 4000 years was less than 200 million, poorer than the people before the reform and opening up, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, the population is 1.4 billion, you will know.

In ancient times, ordinary people lived in an oppressed and enslaved environment for a long time.

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Which dynasty is it, there are those who are fortunate to be blessed, and there are also those who are old. From the ancient agricultural dao crop varieties, from the ancient cooking techniques, from the ancient medical treatment, from the economic point of view. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was not easy for the common people to eat meat, and okra, a native crop at that time.

Cooking techniques only began to diversify in the Song Dynasty, and there was no concept of stir-frying before. With the increase of ** exchanges with Western and Arab countries, many species have gradually been introduced to China for localization. The economy was at its peak during the Song Dynasty, there were many taverns, restaurants, and bazaars, and the people lived relatively happily.

Go to the library and check out the historical materials.

In ancient times, the division of labor of people was that men ploughed and women weaved, men were responsible for ploughing the land, labor and other heavy physical labor, and women generally weaving cloth at home. This means that a man who does not cultivate his home may starve, and a woman who does not weave cloth may suffer from the cold. Male ploughing and weaving and self-sufficiency were the main mode of operation of the small-scale peasant economy at that time.

Fan Chengda's "Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous" records that "the day rises in the field and the night weaves hemp, the children of the village are in charge of their own homes, the children and grandchildren are not solved for farming and weaving, and they also learn to grow melons in the mulberry shade." The meaning of this poem is: go out to plow the fields during the day, and come back at night to rub the hemp rope, and the men and women of the peasant family each carry the burden of the family.

Children don't know how to plow, but they also learn to grow melons like adults under the mulberry trees. This is a true portrayal of life at that time. This practice lasted for thousands of years, and it was only in modern times that it gradually disappeared.

There is no doubt that the life of the peasants in ancient times was extremely miserable, first of all, the low productivity, there were no advanced production tools, the land was planted by manpower and animal power, and it was necessary to rely on ploughs, cocoons and other tools to cultivate, there were already hoes at that time, Tao Yuanming once wrote, "Morningside is desolate, and the hoe returns to the moon." ”

Under such conditions, a person in the prime of life can plough a few acres of land every day, but the grass grows very quickly, so it is the level of self-sufficiency, which is still in a good year, if in a famine year, a big drought or a flood, many people will have to starve to death, and there will be locust plagues and other disasters.

On top of that, there were taxes, military service, and all sorts of ways to control the peasants and force them to serve. Liu Zongyuan's "The Snake Catcher Said" once said this situation, and Confucius also lamented that "harsh government is fiercer than a tiger".

Running water, no computer ......The ancients.

But how do you live? In fact, they're no worse off than we are!

Did ancient women shave their body hair?

In ancient times, China has always been an agrarian society, basically the common people just live a life of male farmers and female weavers, and only a few people in the city will engage in some business operations. There are no entertainment activities in ordinary life, basically just drinking tea, chatting, and playing chess.

In ancient times, the life of ordinary people was relatively simple, such as farmers who roostered in the morning and got up at dawn. Feeding livestock, feeding livestock, drinking water. Eat a simple breakfast, and the food may also be porridge with bran.

Men carry farm tools to work in the fields. Women who can spin hemp and raise silkworms at home spin hemp and raise silkworms and feed poultry. They usually work in the fields.

Listen to music and watch plays. In ancient times, there were no entertainment facilities, and there was no electricity, so I went to bed early, and I usually listened to music and watched dramas except for labor.

Most of the ancient people did not live very well, they had to go out to work early in the morning and come back in the evening, eating only two meals a day, and sometimes not having enough to eat.

In ancient times, salt was not always available.

In real history, the living conditions in ancient China were very hard, because there were not many devices in ancient China that could keep people warm and live well.

The yield of crops is very low, and various taxes have to be paid, and ordinary people can only eat meat once a year during the Spring Festival.

In real history, if ancient China was prosperous, the living conditions were similar to now, except for the absence of the Internet, but if it was a war year, it would be a refugee life.

One or two silver, maybe you don't have any idea. According to the conversion of silver recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty: Food and Goods II". In the early Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy two stones of rice, which was catties of rice.

So one tael of silver is 680 yuan. In the later period, prices soared, and maybe one or two were about 374 yuan. So what can you do with 680 yuan now, it may be a meal at a luxury restaurant, or a month's food expenses, or a discounted air ticket.

And 374 yuan may be the money to go shopping and buy some small things, a train ticket, and half a month's food expenses.

And in the Ming Dynasty, what about the issue of wage income. The county officials are equivalent to our cash civil servants, and their annual salary is about 45 taels, which is 30,600 yuan. It's about 2,500 yuan a month.

The annual income of street vendors is about 20 taels, which is 13,600 yuan, and the monthly income is about 1,200. The income of the peasants is a little bleak, the south is fine, the annual income per capita is 16,650 yuan, while the annual income in the north is only 8,325 yuan a year. Therefore, the life of the peasants can be described as frugal.

In ancient times, when we looked at prices, the first thing was the problem of housing prices. In fact, the housing prices in the Ming Dynasty were still very cheap, and a title deed in the Ming Dynasty was written in the fifteenth year of Wanli. The mansion covers an area of 5 acres of land, with three buildings and 28 square meters, and the total price of the land plus house is 106 taels of silver.

Such a house, put it now, in a second-tier small city, is tens of millions, to say the least. But at that time, 106 taels were bought. It's still a mansion.

Ordinary people's small bungalows can be purchased for 50 taels, which is about 150 square meters, and it is only 227 yuan per square meter.

Let's talk about daily expenses, the whole head of meat in the table is one to eight taels, and the cattle with labor are the most expensive, and the ** of chickens, ducks and fish is not much worse than our current prices. In addition to meat, rice is in yuan one catty, high-quality pork is in yuan one catty, beef is yuan one catty, etc., in fact, in terms of the cost of eating, it should be said that ordinary people can eat these foods. These figures are based on the Miscellaneous Notes of the Wan Department.

We can see that the level of staple and sideline foods is much lower than that of us.

The marriage problem, which was the most worried in ancient and modern times, was also easily solved in the Ming Dynasty. Ordinary people's families, in addition to the expenses, can save about 20 taels a year, and their lives are still relatively comfortable. When the child grows up, buy a folk house of about 50 taels in the wedding room, and the wedding must have two pairs of red candles and two or one zhang of silk.

And the furniture, like a bed 1 2 1, a stool 2 1, a futon and so on. Hiring those, ordinary people are also rich in some silk and dozens of taels of silver. The Ming Dynasty can be said to be one of the most happy dynasties, with a balanced price level and low prices.

Judging from the three aspects of clothing, food, and housing alone, the level is more than that of many places now.

Ancient times.

The standard of living is not very good, and the development in all aspects in ancient times was relatively backward, and most of the ordinary people were not enough to eat.

For modern people, it is normal to have a rich life, and they can usually watch movies and karaoke. But in ancient times, there was not such a good life, in fact, it was very hard, whether it was food, clothing, housing, transportation, or entertainment, it could not be compared with now.

Mosquitoes are a kind of trouble for both modern and ancient people. Modern people have a variety of means to deal with mosquitoes, in ancient times, the ancients used smoke to repel mosquitoes, the most commonly used is wormwood, artemisia grass. During the Song Dynasty, the ancients made "mosquito coils", which were made of a mixture of rosin, mugwort powder, tobacco powder, a small amount of arsenic and sulfur, which was very good at repelling mosquitoes.

Hot pot is one of everyone's favorite delicacies, hot pot has been born in the pre-Qin period, and the tripod was used at that time. In the Han Dynasty, there was also a tripod with an internal lattice, and the hot pot at that time was not eaten immediately, but needed to be boiled in boiling water for a long time. In the Song Dynasty, people began to use hot pot to shabu meat, but all the shabu was rabbit meat.

The pronunciation of ancient Chinese is very different from that of modern Chinese, and there are also three stages of variation in ancient Chinese pronunciation. The ancient pronunciation refers to the pronunciation from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Han Dynasty; Middle pronunciation refers to the pronunciation from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty; The ancient pronunciation refers to the pronunciation from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. It is because of the continuous migration of northern nomads to the south and the integration of Hu and Chinese in history.

Now there are singles, and in ancient times there were also. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the phenomenon of singles was widespread. Ordinary people live in poverty, families cannot support more children, and under the influence of patriarchal thinking, they can only abandon girls, so many girls will be thrown away by their parents when they are born.

Chinese have attached great importance to teeth since ancient times, and gargling was the most important way to clean teeth in ancient times. The most common is to rinse your mouth with salt water, and some people also use salt to wipe their teeth. Salt has a bactericidal effect.

The ancients also used to brush their teeth with things like tea. Bite one end of the willow branch with your teeth and dip it in a little powder, which can also be used to brush your teeth. During the Song Dynasty, real toothbrushes "brushing teeth" appeared in China, made with a horse's tail.

Therefore, life in ancient times was really difficult, and the methods used were also very crude, but it is better to live now, and everyone should cherish the current life.