It has not been many years since human beings really defeated famine, and the variety of food on our table today was a hundred years ago, but it was one thing that we did not even dare to think about; As an island country, Japan has experienced more brutal famines due to the scarcity of arable land, and what I am introducing today is the most famous of them, the Great Famine of Tianming.
The Great Famine of Heaven
Because Japan uses rice as its main food, but because rice is afraid of the cold, and the year of dawn is exactly when the cold air sweeps through Japan, it has brought a heavy blow to the Japanese.
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The worst hits were poor villages in Tohoku, such as Aomori and Iwate. In order to survive, people even want to alleviate unbearable hunger by eating dirt. In order to survive, some unspeakable customs have been formed: abandonment of the elderly, cannibalism, infanticide.
The cause of the Great Tenmei Famine is said to have been the massive harvest failure caused by the eruption of Mount Asama, which led to the worst famine.
At the beginning of the famine, people climbed mountains to dig up weeds, kudzu roots, and fern roots to fill their stomachs. When there is no strength to climb the mountain, people will grind straw and bark into powder, knead it into porridge or make it into dry powder. They also ate all the cattle they used to farm on weekdays, and they didn't even escape the guard dogs.
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In a village in Aomori, people even cooked paper to eat, and they ate all the Buddhist scriptures stored in the village temple; Then they started boiling dirt to fill their stomachs.
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The famine caused many people to starve to death. At first, the survivors buried the bodies, but later, due to hunger, they abandoned them in the wilderness; Due to the decay of the corpses, a large-scale epidemic caused the survivors to gradually die.
When a traveler named Hikaro Takayama passed through the village, he said: "There is no anger in the village, the weeds are growing casually, next to the white bones of hungry people, and many houses have collapsed." ”
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In fact, not only in Japan, but also in Asia, who live on agriculture, they have been threatened by famine, so we must save grain today and truly do it: "A porridge and a meal are not easy to come by, and a wisp of perseverance is difficult to come by." ”
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