Originally, I didn't plan to answer this question, so let the people in the live broadcast room talk about it by themselves, but when I heard He Xiaoman suddenly ask about it, Zhang Yang simply took the mobile phone and operated it so that the drone outside could receive his voice.

"Environmental problems have always been one of the most serious problems faced by countries around the world, in fact, let alone now, in ancient times, our ancestors also had the concept of 'environmental governance', and the world's earliest environmental protection agencies were really born in our country. ”

Throwing the packaging bag of the cone into the trash can, Zhang Yang began to hold He Xiaoman's feet with both hands to help him massage and relax, and at the same time affirmatively answered He Xiaoman and the fan who asked the question in the previous live broadcast room.

Nani?

Is there really one?

couldn't help but shrink the soles of his feet that had just been scratched by Zhang Yang, and glanced at Zhang Yang coquettishly, and then He Xiaoman couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Husband, husband, let's talk, I want to hear it, let's not be in a hurry to eat first!"

"Okay, then I'll talk to you. ”

The left hand unconsciously followed the foot in the hand in a certain direction......

Pretending not to see someone's red face, Zhang Yang started his own small class again.

"Speaking of the department in charge of environmental protection in ancient times, the name is naturally not called 'Ministry of Environmental Protection' or anything like that.

Some time ago, when I was reading the "List of Officials of the Past Dynasties" compiled by Huang Benji in the Qing Dynasty, I really found out in this book that the Ministry of Environmental Protection in early ancient times in our country should be called 'Yu' (yú). ”

With a red face, his feet stepped lightly somewhere, He Xiaoman glanced at Zhang Yang and then said.

"Yu, husband, is it the Yu of the poppy beauty who has been in the spring flowers and autumn moon?"

Anyway, the drone will be floating outside, and the people in the live broadcast room can only hear their own voices, and the four little guys don't know when they ran into the cab to play, and unscrupulously Zhang Yang gently patted a place with his left hand, and then pinched it again.

"That's right, it's the word 'Yu', of course, this Yu is actually both the name of the organization and the name of the official title, and a large part of its functions are still somewhat similar to our environmental protection department today, but the scope of management of this department is much larger, and it can almost be said that the protection and management of mountains, forests, rivers and rivers at that time are the responsibilities of 'Yu'.

In the ancient legend of the 'Five Emperors Era', due to the primitive living conditions, people are more dependent on nature, correspondingly, but also pay more attention to the protection of the natural environment, we must not think that this is impossible, to give the simplest example, everyone must know the allusion of Dayu to control the water.

Let's continue to talk, at that time, Emperor Yao felt that Shun had the ability to govern the world, so he let Yu Shun, sure enough, Shun made a great achievement, Sima Qian's "Historical Records" opened the first volume of "Five Emperors Benji", and recorded Shun's deeds.

It is said that Shun carried out the reform of the administrative organization after he ascended to the throne, and according to the needs of the time, he was divided into nine officials.

These nine officials, which are equivalent to the nine ministries and commissions of the current state management body, have 22 chief and deputy governors respectively, and these department chiefs are collectively discussed and publicly recommended by the leaders of various tribes.

Then among the nine ministries and commissions set up by Shun, there was the Ministry of Environmental Protection ——— "Yu".

At that time, Yu's establishment was not small, the first Yu official was named Boyi, and there was such a story about Boyi's inauguration.

It is said that at that time, Shun solicited the opinions of the leaders of various tribes and asked who could help him take charge of the mountains and forests, rivers and rivers, plants and trees, birds and beasts, and everyone unanimously recommended Boyi, but Boyi at that time did not accept this 'Minister of Environmental Protection' at first, hoping to give up this position to Zhu, Hu, Xiong, Zhen and others.

Then Shun also simply said that they would be in charge of the 'Ministry of Environmental Protection' together with Boyi, and Boyi became Shun's 'Minister of Environmental Protection', and Zhu, Hu, Xiong, and Zhen were appointed as 'Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection'. ”

The hand that would continue to be strange slapped aside, and He Xiaoman, who was a little heavier on his feet, was even more curious this time.

"There really is, but what kind of work did they have to do at that time, wouldn't it be like we are now running to other farmers' houses to tell them that our firewood pollutes the air, and we are not allowed to use firewood to cook in the future, hehe, this is a bit exaggerated. ”

Some people listen to him quite seriously, who knows what small actions are still being done behind the scenes......

Zhang Yang raised the left hand that was slapped off, and then gently scratched He Xiaoman's little nose, in exchange for the other party's cute frown, and then continued to be serious.

"The focus of environmental protection in each era must be different, for example, we are now focusing on environmental protection is basically air pollution or energy conservation and emission reduction, etc., at that time in ancient times, there was definitely no need to worry about these things, because even if they wanted to emit harmful air, they couldn't do it, let alone energy conservation and emission reduction, because there was nothing to save energy.

However, this Boyi is indeed an environmental expert, and his environmental protection minister has done a very competent job.

Judging from historical records and legends, Boyi is surnamed Shi Zu, and he is also the right-hand man of Dayu, a water control expert, who invented the well to ensure that human drinking water sources are not polluted; At the same time, it is also an authority on animal protection, that is, the so-called "Boyi Zhiyu Beast" in the "Hanshu Geographical Chronicle", and according to legend, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was also written by Boyi, of course, this has not been confirmed so far.

Later, in the Zhou Dynasty, the establishment of the "Ministry of Environmental Protection" was larger, and the Zhou and the previous Xia and Shang dynasties were the same, and the central agency implemented the "majority ministry system", but the Ministry of Environmental Protection was further refined, and there were four parallel departments such as Shanyu, Chuanheng, Lin Heng, and Zeyu, all of which were under the leadership of the "local lawsuit", among them, Shanyu had the highest status, and the American scholar Ekholm called the world's earliest "Mountain and Forestry Bureau".

Then there was the Qin Dynasty later, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection at that time was replaced by the 'Shaofu', but the function tended to be more of a functional institution for the royal family to manage private wealth and life affairs, one of which was responsible for collecting taxes on mountains and seas and ponds and collecting local contributions for the use of the court, and the other was responsible for all the supplies and services needed by the court such as food, clothing, daily life, safari and play.

Later in the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial court all had Yu Heng Division, which was the 'Yu Department'. ”

The departments and the responsibilities of these departments were said in detail, which shocked a large number of people who didn't know about these situations at all, especially what he said next was even more shocking.

"You don't know, right? Our country's ancient environmental protection legislation can be traced back to the ancient Xia Dynasty when Dayu was in power.

"Yi Zhou Shu Da Ju Chapter" records that Dayu issued a ban when he was in office: in spring and March, the mountains and forests do not climb the axe, so as to become the length of grass and trees. In the summer and March, Kawasawa does not enter the Gang, and the length of the adult fish and turtle is long.

Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty recorded in "Shuo Yuan Zhiwu" that around 1050 B.C., King Wen of Zhou issued a 'Cutting Chongguo Order' when attacking Chongguo, which contained such a stipulation: When ground troops enter the territory of Chongguo, they should not destroy houses, fill wells, cut down trees, or move six animals.

The so-called 'no wells' and 'no felling of trees' means that the troops are required not to fill in wells, not to cut down trees, and in a word, not to damage the living environment and facilities of the people of Chongguo.

Of course, although the bans just mentioned are not specifically designed for environmental protection, they do have an environmental effect.

In December 1975, in the Qin tomb of No. 11 Sleeping Tiger Land in Chengguan, Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, a batch of Qin slips were unearthed, and some of the bamboo slips recorded the laws of the Qin State, and then sorted out the "Eighteen Kinds of Qin Laws".

There is such an environmental protection clause recorded in the "Tian Law", which in addition to the previous generation of regulations on the prohibition of indiscriminate logging in spring, there are also a number of environmental protection regulations.

Two of them are very fresh, one is that the river is not blocked, that is, the so-called 'Yongdi water', and the other is that it is not allowed to burn grass ash as fertilizer in summer, that is, the so-called 'no summer month, do not dare to turn the night grass into ashes'.

In particular, the article "Don't dare to turn the night grass into ashes" is very effective in protecting the atmosphere today, which can avoid air pollution and reduce haze weather. ”