In fact, the first time I heard the elders say this saying was at the end of last year, and I have always wanted to write this sentence since then.
Over the past few months, the third brother has read a lot of historical materials, checked a lot of materials, and taken stock of the world, as well as several major epidemics in our history, and finally came to a conclusion:
The pandemic is only three years old, and this "three" does not refer to specific years, but like the meaning of "three" in "three lives and all things", it is an uncertain number.
The following three brothers will work with friends and friends to take stock of the several major epidemics we have experienced in history:
01
In the "Explanation of Words and Words", the explanation of the Qibu is: epidemic, the people are also sick.
According to archaeological findings, in the excavated oracle bones, there are already words such as "malaria, clams, and disease years".
This shows that there was already a history of epidemics of infectious diseases as early as the Yin Shang period. Reasoning from the text pattern of the oracle bone, at that time, people mostly believed that the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases were related to the "insect" class, and that it was mostly because of the bite of the "insect" class that the disease spread and spread.
The word "plague", which first appeared in written records, is the Eastern Jin Dynasty Taoist theorist and medical scientist Ge Hong's "Micro Purpose", which has such a sentence: After the plague, it is not afraid, and in case of emergency, it is invisible. The so-called "plague" here refers to contagious diseases.
In our history, there have been several written records of major yi situations, and from the literature, each time the situation is enough to be shocking.
02
In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, it is recorded that the twenty-second year of Jian'an was a major epidemic.
To what extent is the "great epidemic" in the historical data?
Cao Cao's son Cao Zhi described this affair in detail in "Speaking of Epidemic Qi": there is the pain of zombies in the family, and there is the mourning of the trumpet in the room. Or close the door and die (yi four sounds, meaning: death), or overthrow the family and mourn.
Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" also mentioned: Since Jian'an, in the past ten years, two-thirds of its dead have died, and typhoid fever has ranked seventh. (Jude: Not enough)
If the words "family", "room", "door" and "family" are not specific enough, then let's look at the data:
In a household registration statistics during the Han Ling Emperor's period, there were more than 60 million people in the country, and by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population was only more than 20 million! In other words, this yi situation has sharply reduced the population by nearly two-thirds. (Due to statistical conditions at the time, the data may not be accurate).)
In fact, this yi love did not only take away lives, but also the entire "literary circle" of the Han Dynasty that was hit hard at that time:
If nothing else, let's say that the "Seven Sons of Jian'an" who were the most famous at that time and were enough to represent the literary achievements at that time: Kong Rong, Chen Lin, Wu Cang, Xu Gan, Ruan Yu, Ying Yue, and Liu Zhen, seven people, died five. Most of these people died in the prime of their lives, which was the period of great explosion of creative ability, so it also caused unprecedented losses to the cultural market at that time.
Then came the Wei and Jin Dynasties, when there were at least three large-scale plagues recorded in writing, and the result was "100,000 dead" and "corpses flowing in the river, white bones hiding the wilderness".
In the middle and late Song Dynasty, basically every few years there would be a relatively large yi situation. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, yi love activities became more frequent. It will happen every few years, and these successive yi emotions will eventually exhaust the vitality of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Unfortunately, after the Ming Dynasty's Wanli Dynasty, history seemed to repeat itself:
First, the Datong plague in the eighth year of the Wanli Calendar, which caused "ten rooms and nine emptiness... A few families, one or two out of ten or even those who can't afford to close the door." By the Chongzhen period, yi love began to occur frequently again. I heard that there is a movie called "Daming Robbery", which should be written about the tragic situation of the Ming Dynasty under the disaster.
Of course, it has to be said that the plague in the Huai River Basin during the Yuan Dynasty, some researchers believe that it was this plague that spread along the Silk Road to India, known as the "Black Death", and took the lives of tens of millions of people.
There is a saying that there is a big epidemic after a catastrophe, and there are really major incidents after several major disasters in history.
For example, the flood in Henan during the Sui Dynasty. Floods were followed by a pandemic, which exacerbated the losses. During the Tang Dynasty, there was a major drought, and after the great drought, there was also a major epidemic.
The Tang Dynasty literati's lonely "Hanging Road" records the tragic situation at that time:
And the survivors have no food, and the dead have no coffins to mourn. Probably his parents and wives also ate his flesh and abandoned his remains in the fields.
It's shocking! Heart-wrenching.
Closer to now, it should be several major epidemics in the Qing Dynasty, which occurred in the fifth, sixth and eleventh years of Xianfeng, when it was also "closed to the door, more empty than every household, small villages gathered, no one left." As well as the Yi situation during the Xuantong period, when the emperor was still a child, many data were not very accurate, but the casualties were not small.
03
"Lao Tzu" said: The wind does not end, and the rain does not last forever. Who is this? Heaven and earth cannot be outside, but what about man?
No matter how great the wind and rain, there will be a time when the fury of nature will not last long, and the calamity of this earth will certainly dissipate.
Looking at the yi situation in history, the short period is half a year and a year, and the long one is three years and five years, which does not confirm the sentence "the pandemic is only three years". Therefore, this "three" can only be an approximation, it may be three years, it may be short and long.
There have been several times in history, either because of natural disasters, or because of climate, or because of man-made disasters. However, the final demise of yiqing should benefit from the increasing experience of prevention and control, and more importantly, it should be the unity of people in the midst of the pandemic, the unity of the whole world, and the unity of pace, which is the key to the final rapid victory over the disaster.
The third brother wants to say: Nature is eternal, and human beings are endless. Every disaster and situation is a test for us, testing people's immunity, but also testing people's ability to cope and respond, and the most important point is to test people's courage and ability to unite as one and unite as one.
As long as we are united, the dissipation of yi feelings will surely be just around the corner, and we will soon usher in a new tomorrow.