"The people take food as the sky, and food is the first thing".Since ancient times, food safety is a sensitive issue that affects thousands of households, and in the face of substandard food vendors, the punishment in modern society is very strict, because it is related to social development.
So, how to ensure food safety is the primary issue, in the long history, what is worth learning?The ancients have long thought of effective ways to ensure food safetyWhat are the penalties for unqualified vendors?
In the long history of China for thousands of years,The relevant regulations and systems for food safety are also constantly changingThe ancients attached great importance to the value of food and believed that food was the basic guarantee for shaping life.
The Hanshu Food and Goods Chronicle has expressed the importance of food"Food" and "goods" are the foundation of the people's survivalSuch ideology began to rise as early as the time of Shennong.
Therefore, the existence of food is not enough, but also to escort its safety, therefore, food safety has become the primary concern of people, grasp thisThe livelihood of the people will be guaranteed, and the country will not be shaken at all
So in order for the country's fundamentals to continue to take root, how can the successive emperors, as rulers, ensure that the tens of millions of people in their country can eat food without problems?This is a question worth thinking about for every leader.
The relevant regulations for food can be traced back to the period of Zhou Tianzi, when there was already a food supervision system, but there were no relevant regulations to restrict food, but only the introduction of relevant news to facilitate the management of food safety in the market in the Zhou Dynasty.
It is not so much a system as a regulation, but it can still reflect that the earliest food safety norms began in the Zhou DynastyAlthough food was not abundant at that time, it was necessary to provide the safest guarantee in terms of regulations
With the passage of time, the market began to gradually enrich, and the food began to diversify, and the existing food safety regulations can no longer regulate allTherefore, it is necessary to further upgrade the regulations in order to better protect the foundation of the people
The span of food safety regulations began in the Han Dynasty, when the economy showed signs of recovery, and at the same time as the rapid development, the variety of food sold in the market was also diverse, and along with the food safety issues.
As the ancients said: no treacherous business, businessmen put profits first when selling goods, and in order to seek more benefits, they even do not hesitate to do anything to the food they buy, and seek the most benefits at the lowest cost, and the victims are consumers.
Even if the food has gone badSome profiteers will also circulate in the market at any costIn order to create a good environment for the market and to completely change the problem of food safety, the Han Dynasty adopted some normative measures.
During the time when Lu Pheasant listened to politics,The "Two-Year Decree" was promoted to the outside worldThe implementation of this initiative will largely solve the problem of food safety, and clearly stipulate the "scale" of the food sold.
If the meat food sold has a problem of spoilage, it must be destroyed as soon as possible, and it cannot be circulated in the marketThat would be punished severely, and there would be a "joint sitting" system
It is not only necessary to punish the vendors who sell, but also to punish the relevant departments for verification, and all the relevant personnel involved in the current food problems in the market will be implicatedIt can be said to play the role of supervision and supervision
How prosperous the Tang Dynasty is, high-rise buildings, prosperous business, Datang never sleeps is the best description of the prosperity of the market, and then behind the lightsHowever, it is the monarch's strict control of food safety that enables the market to develop in an orderly manner
The Tang Dynasty people already had their own food safety lawsIt is described in the "Tang Law Discussion".Once the food has deteriorated, the operator must immediately destroy the problematic food, otherwise he will be punished by the war.
This is also to nip spoiled food in the bud, because the conditions for keeping food fresh at that time were far less than in today's good times, and many things could not be kept fresh without refrigeratorsSome even rot away in a lot of time
Some operators look at the spoiled food and feel that the cost is losing, so they continue to sell the food that has been problematic with a fluke mentality, and once consumers buy these inferior products home, they will have diarrhea and be life-threatening.
In order to combat this phenomenon. Tang issued a clear directive that if the spoiled food sold by the operator caused the purchaser to become ill, then he would be exiled for one yearIf the purchaser loses his life as a result, he is sentenced to death by hanging
It can be said that one life is worth one life, and the resolute governance of the Tang Dynasty seems to be extremely firm, striking hard to crack down on inferior food, and the advantage of solving this problem from the root is that it avoids various problems caused by food problems on a large scale.
The ancients also always kept food safety in mind, and the importance of food can be seen through a series of billsThe Tang Dynasty also deliberately subdivided poisoning into "intentional" and "unintentional", which facilitated the graded punishment of operators
Even if the ** control is so strict, there are still people who want to take risks, and the famous poet Liu Zongyuan was once angry because he bought a fakeThe merchant sold it to him using taro to pass it off as Poria cocos, and was finally punished and exiled
What was the market environment like in the Song Dynasty?Presumably, the "Qingming Riverside Map" has a brief summary, this dynasty bordering the Tang Dynasty followed the system of the previous dynasty, and upgraded the food safety norms on the basis of Tang law.
According to the record of "Wulin Old Things", the Song Dynasty set up a professional guild in response to the bustling market and many shops, and stipulated that anyone who operates this must join the guild and register to be qualified to engage in the industry.
This is similar to obtaining a business license, but it is differentThe guilds of the Song Dynasty also exercised a portion of the administrative power on their behalfThis is done for ease of management.
The guild is an audit department, whether it is any commodity, it needs to be checked in the guild, and the leader of the guild has the right to designate ** according to the quality of the goods, how to deal with it if the guild is cheating
The ** department of the Song Dynasty has long thought of a countermeasure, the guild seems to have a lot of power, but in fact it also bears the corresponding risks, if there is a problem with the commodity itself, the guild will have an inescapable responsibilityIf you don't want to be implicated, then you must strictly control the goods
As for food safety, the laws of the Song Dynasty were stricter than those of the Tang Dynasty, and it was recorded in the "Song Criminal Rule" that on the basis of the Tang law, there were "intentional" and "unintentional" regulations, and any food problems would be punished.
To put it simply, operators are required to deal with spoiled food, and they must not be allowed to do soAnd no matter what food you sell, it needs to be put in clean utensils, and garbage should not be littered
It can be said that the regulations of the Song Dynasty are already very complete, and such measures have greatly protected the health and safety of purchasers, and the power will be given to the guild, which will more directly supervise the spoiled food.
Later generations continued to standardize food safety in accordance with the standards of the Song DynastyThe emphasis on food safety is also the same, but also added some new systems and new penalties, just to avoid inferior food from entering the market.
For example, when a restaurant was inspected for hygiene, there was a problem, and the boss actually piled up the food next to the toilet, which would cause the food to deteriorate on May DayThe boss was also punished with dozens of blows to the palm of the hand
Food safety is related to thousands of households, is the foundation of people's livelihood, only to master the safety in order to win the hearts of the people, take the world for the people,If all dynasties want to do things for the people, fundamental guarantees are indispensable
With the development of the millennium, the food safety system is constantly improving, and it will also be updated with the changes in the market, so that healthy food can enter thousands of households.