Everybody Unknown Ancient Chinese Life (4)

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How do ancient Chinese kill the agricultural pest?

There is no insecticide in ancient China, but ancient people have their own method. The medicament that ancient China prevents the agricultural pest is multifarious, the plant medicament includes the Jia herb, Mang herb, etc.; the animal medicament includes the powder of clam, the water of fish smell, etc.; the mineral medicament includes salt, sulfur, lime, arsenic, etc.. Operation method includes mix with the seed, accompanying seeds to plant, mix with water or boil and spray, light the smoked smoke, daub the worm hole, etc. As far back as the Chun and Qiu Period and the Warring States Period, the government had even specially officers and in charge of the agricultural pest. When the rampant season of the agricultural pest each time, this grand scene will appear “the whole country people catch pest”.

What time will ancient Chinese go to work?

Seeing the record that ancient Chinese went to work, you will think that you are very lucky as modern. You will think very humanization now. The time that ancient China civil servant go to work is: In spring and winter, sign in at six o’clock in the morning; in summer and autumn, must sign in at five o’clock in the morning. If someone dares to stay away from work without reason or come late without reason, that isn’t so simple a thing that deduct a part of pay, According to number of days which stay away from work without reason, can sentence the flogging as a punishment or other punishment. So, in China ancient times, if you are late for work, may suffer suffering of body.

Do ancient Chinese students have winter and summer vacation or weekend vacation?

Now the students often complain that vacation is too short, in fact they do not know that they have been already very lucky. In ancient China, students do not have special vacation, besides traditional China festivals such as New Year, student’s task of every day is the hard study. Only the government official has the right that has vacation in ancient China.

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