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How do people go home in ancient spring festival? In ancient times, there was also "spring transport

How do people go home in ancient spring festival? It turns out that in ancient times there was also spring festival transportation

4hw.com.cn: going home for the Spring Festival is the eternal theme of Chinese people every year. No matter how far away from home, home is always the destination. Now the transportation is developed, and there are many ways to go home. So how did the transportation in ancient times go home? Now let's take a look at how the ancients went home for the new year.

The ancients also had spring transportation

According to the definition of "Sui Ming" in Erya, the earliest dictionary in China, Nian was called "Zai" in Tang Yao, Sui in Xia Dynasty, Si in Shang Dynasty and Nian in Zhou Dynasty. According to this, it can be concluded that the rudiment of the Spring Festival appeared in the Zhou Dynasty, the Chinese new year, and the ancient spring festival should also appear at this time.

In ancient times, due to the restrictions of nature, customs, and parents' not traveling far away, the number of population flow was not large and the distance was not too far. The main body of Spring Festival transportation in ancient times was not migrant workers, but public servants and businessmen.

Although it's not too far away from now, it's also very inconvenient to go home with the traffic conditions at that time.

In order to solve the problem of returning home for the new year, the ancient government also tried not to arrange public servants to go out during the new year. For migrant workers and businessmen, they will set out early to avoid delaying their return time.

There were also highways in ancient times

Behind the difficulty of going home is the difficulty of traveling. To solve the contradiction of Spring Festival transportation is to solve the traffic problem.

According to the book of the Han Dynasty, it is recorded that "the road of the Qin Dynasty is wide in the world" and that "the road is fifty steps wide, and the tree is three Zhang long. It is built thick, covered with golden vertebrae, and the tree is green pine". Chi road is a national road of Qin state. According to the recorded data, Chi road is 69 meters wide, and the roadside is also planted with pine trees for greening and noise reduction. Chi road is similar to 'ancient Expressway'.

High speed railway in Qin Dynasty: Hardwood track

In addition to Chi Road, there were straight road and rail road in Qin Dynasty. The railway here is the "high-speed railway" at that time. Of course, at that time, the tracks were not rails, but made of hardwood, with sleepers under them. Except for different engineering materials, they were basically no different from modern railways. The carriage was on it, very fast.

Animal chariot can be called "bus" in ancient times

Besides the road conditions, there are also means of transport that affect the efficiency of the Spring Festival transportation. In ancient times, driving power was mainly human and animal power. The earliest rickshaw in China was the chariot, which was the predecessor of the sedan chair. Later, there were crazy chariots, unicycles, chicken buses, rickshaws and tricycles.

Long distance transportation, especially logistics, mainly relies on animal powered vehicles, which are ancient Chinese "buses.". There are carriages, donkey carts, mule carts, ox carts, etc. among them, carriage is the most important tool of ancient spring festival transportation, and it is as important as modern long-distance bus. It can still be seen in some places in the north.

Ships are the most comfortable means of transportation

In ancient China, whether carrying people or goods, wooden boats were the most important means of transportation. The Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal is an important water transport channel and economic lifeline in ancient China. It is because the boats on the canal carry millions of stone grain, with a large amount of silver and various commodities, as well as officials and merchants.

The unified price of Spring Festival transportation in Tang Dynasty

Yes, the ancient 'Spring Festival' also had to buy tickets. Although there is no need to worry about the difficulty of getting a ticket, the issue of buying a ticket does exist.

Modern Spring Festival games use all kinds of transportation capacity to ensure festival transportation, as in ancient times. In the past, there were three kinds of transportation systems in China: government run, commercial run and private run. However, no matter which one is, there is a charge. When it comes to festivals, the cost of passenger transportation and logistics will be higher than usual, but relatively stable. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a national unified price for commercial transportation, with a maximum and minimum price, and detailed regulations on mileage and speed.

In the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, for example, the salary of the most grass-roots "national cadres" like Jiupin Zhima officials was no more than half a liang of silver a month. If you want to take a carriage home, I'm afraid you'll have to economize for more than half a year. Every year, in order to go home for the new year, they have to tighten their belts for the first half of the year. Naturally, it's not very realistic. It's much easier to go by water. Therefore, going home by boat was the first choice of the ancients during the Spring Festival.