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Preface
The issue of old-age care has been a matter of most concern since ancient times, after all, everyone wants to rely on it when they are old, but not the elderly people in the country will be treated well in their old age.
Especially in contemporary times, the problem of old-age care is really a headache, because the trend of population aging seems to have been very obvious, and the living conditions of the elderly have also attracted much attention from the outside world.
The most important thing is that many cities have nursing homes, and some have also set up nursing homes to take care of the elderly to the greatest extent.
Status of the elderly in ancient times
In fact, the prototype of the nursing home began as early as the slave society, and the people of the primitive society particularly admired the sense of strength, and they needed to hunt all year round for a living, so for those who were old and infirm, they were generally not allowed to go out hunting, but these people had to consume food in the tribe and could not create any value.
Therefore, the people of the primitive tribe regard the old people as a drag and burden for survival, and often the old people have to look at the faces of the young people to eat and dress warmly, but with the emergence of the slave society, social work has a minimalist division of labor, and the source of food for people is not limited to hunting.
Due to the birth of handicrafts, the whole society continues to move forward and move towards the direction of a civilized society, those who have certain manual skills and respect for the elderly, will not be burdened by the increase in age, but will continue to create personal value in a limited life.
In fact, such people are more protected and respected by the ruling class, and whether they can be better supported or not depends on the attitude of their children.
The emperor of the Han Dynasty was a person who greatly respected filial piety, and looking at the past dynasties, the emperor of the Han Dynasty can be called the most respectful of the elderly, when the emperor of the Han Dynasty assessed whether the official could be reused, not only focused on the assessment of his ability, but also through the details, to see whether the official respected his parents and elders, filial piety.
Takamichi Kiyo
As the king of a country, the emperor naturally decided that everyone below had to obey everything, and the emperor of the Han Dynasty was a person who took filial piety to the extreme, and of course no one dared to disobey it easily among the people. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were even many students who became officials through the method of "promoting filial piety and honesty".
Of course, this system does not need to examine the level of knowledge reserves or the ability to handle affairs of the person concerned, and even the person's character and background are not taken into account, and the assessment criteria are simple and rude, just as long as he is filial to his elders.
There is an unknown story of filial piety behind Huangmei Opera "Tianxian Pei", legend has it that Dong Yong is a native of the Han Dynasty, his mother died early, and he has been dependent on his father since he was a child, but his father is not in good health all the year round and can not take care of himself, Dong Yong is not at ease every time he goes out, so he takes his father with him.
When Dong Yong went to work in the fields, he let his father sit on the ground, and he would run to his father as soon as possible, because his father died, and there was no funeral money at home, so Dong Yong put down his body and sold himself to a rich and noble family as a servant to earn funeral expenses for his father.
It was Dong Yong's filial piety that moved the fairy in the sky, so the fairy ignored the opposition of the Jade Emperor, and had to come to the world to face the difficulties in life with Dong Yong.
Many people are curious about how the state of old age and helplessness in ancient times came about?
No one provides for the elderly
In ancient times, the social environment was often in a state of war, and many young people were captured on the battlefield to serve as combatants, almost never returning, leaving behind elderly parents, monks, young children, and helpless women.
Under the influence of the small-scale peasant economy based on farming and weaving, there are many women who simply cannot support the heavy responsibility of taking care of the family, and the family is counting on a man to support the family, but the strong men are handed over to the state, and the basic survival problems of the elderly and children are also very thorny, so some families simply do not support the elderly to reduce the burden on the family.
There are also many natural disasters in ancient times, and when some unpredictable natural disasters come, it is often those young and strong men who rush in front of a large family to protect their families, and when they are repaired after the disaster, the pillars of the family will also be taken away by the government.
As a result, the loss of strong men has caused huge survival pressure to those families who are already living in dire straits, and some people do not hesitate to make their children orphans in order to alleviate the suffering of their families, and even do not take the initiative and cannot take the responsibility of supporting their parents.
For the kind of displaced elderly, there was also a certain maintenance system in ancient times.
Ancient retirement homes
In the Tang Dynasty, the "Beitian Temple" was established, and an effective law was promulgated to protect the rights and interests of the elderly, and the "Beitian Yuan" was used to adopt the elderly who were not treated well by the family, where the daily life of the elderly was taken care of, and there were also monks from the monastery who came here as volunteers to arrange and manage the daily life of the elderly.
For those over 80 years old, the court will send people to take care of them one-on-one, if they are over 90 years old, there will be two people to take care of their daily life, and for those over 100 years old, five people will be arranged to take care of their daily life.
After the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's system of providing for the elderly was more perfect, and the form of family pension was adopted, so that young people could assume the responsibility of supporting the elderly.
If an old man does not have the closest relatives, but as long as there are relatives in the world, the Song Dynasty court will give some benefits to relatives, such as when going to collect military rations, relatives who can support the elderly do not have to pay food, or when they need to pay taxes, all relevant personnel who can solve the problem of elderly pension may not need to pay taxes.
And the court of the Song Dynasty will also give some material rewards to those who support the elderly who are not related to each other from time to time, and may sometimes give some cloth, food or money, in short, to stimulate these people to treat the elderly well.
summary
In the traditional Chinese moral concept, supporting the elderly is the primary responsibility of children, but in ancient times there were some unavoidable reasons, so that some old people may lose all their family members in their later life, so their pension problems will be solved by the imperial court, but fortunately, in ancient times, there were special nursing homes and a relatively perfect pension system.