With the development of transportation and Internet technology, people's definition of travel and cognitive world has changed with each passing day, just like in the era when the traffic is not smooth, only oxen-drawn carts or walking, there is no big thing, and you can live in a radius of a few miles for a lifetime without moving the nest.
Especially after the Internet, with the popularization of mobile phones, even people who live in the deserted mountains can interact with others through small **, so that although the body is separated by tens of millions of miles, the heart is very close. At this time, many people will be curious about a question, that is, before the Qing Dynasty, it was difficult for ordinary people to go out of a county for a lifetime?
First of all, let's distinguish the definition of ordinary people before the Qing Dynasty, when people were probably divided into four types of agriculture and industry by occupation. The scholars usually refer to the families whose ancestors were officials or heirlooms of poetry and books, and their career planning is characterized by the fact that they do not have a skill that can make a living immediately, and they need to be officials and officials to obtain income, so they need to improve their social system and seek development in the lively city.
Therefore, they usually do not settle in the quiet "Peach Blossom Garden", except for those who have escaped war and whose political ideas and the authorities have moved to the left. Looking at the businessmen who do business, businessmen generally have to walk the streets and alleys to barter to earn the difference in price for a living, which leads to the fact that even if they live in a small county, they have to pack their bags and go out many times a year.
Farmers and craftsmen who farm the land can theoretically live without leaving the county for the rest of their lives, either by guarding one acre and three points of land, or by making furniture and haircuts for their neighbors. Why analyze the definition of ordinary people? The reason is that according to people's different jobs, the demand for going out of the county is also different, and not all people can live without going out of the county for a lifetime.
After analyzing the degree of demand, you can see whether they can do it without going out of the county for the rest of their lives. The answer is most likely to be obtained, because there are two force majeure factors that will break the original comfortable and self-sufficient life mode, one is war and the other is natural disasters.
In the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, although the length of Guozuo is different, there is a similarity in that one or several large-scale wars will occur within a hundred years, and there will be wars when the dynasty needs to be conscripted, just like the story of Hua Mulan serving in the army for her father.
And the war that reincarnates once in a hundred years can radiate to each generation, and it will be affected in different time periods. In addition, there are completely uncontrollable natural disasters, such as famine, floods and even **, etc., which will also make some people have to go out to beg for a living because of lack of clothes and clothing.
Whether it is historical materials or film and television dramas with the theme of the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, a common plot is that there are displaced people in the capital who went out to find life due to natural disasters, and the imperial court and wealthy families will set up porridge sheds along the street and arrange disaster relief money to take care of their livelihoods. Later, when the disaster year passed, whether these people chose to stay here and settle down again or return to their hometowns to live, this experience was an absolute long journey.
Therefore, those who move away from the capital to live in seclusion in small counties or deep mountains form a closed loop with those who have to leave again. After all, although it is difficult to break away from home, it is not impossible to get out of the way, first of all, the rations can be grown by yourself, and you can go on the road by accumulating some dry food.
Many people will worry about the hidden danger of robbers, and a robber robbery is also the object, just like Liangshan and his party will rob the birth gang, who will rob the people who are more difficult than themselves? It's almost the same to pull him into the gang and do it together. Moreover, the people at that time were relatively simple, and they would do their best to help pedestrians who were dusty, such as Tang Seng who took the Western Scripture and did not allow him to accumulate gold and silver, and rarely returned empty-handed along the way.
So why is there a doubt about whether it is difficult for ordinary people to leave the county for the rest of their lives before the Qing Dynasty? Part of the reason is that the survivors are biased, and all they hear are the accounts of old people who have never been out of the house all their lives, and most of them are scattered all over the country for different reasons, and it is easy to hear them talk about the past.
For example, for people today, the location and ancestral home are two completely different places for most people, and only a few people can live in the same place for the rest of their lives, but the reasons for leaving are different. For example, for the generation around 1930-1940, joining the army and fleeing famine were the two main reasons for leaving home.
In the old yard where I lived when I was a child, the grandparents who sat in a chatter were really from all over the world and then got together, including those from the Northeast, Anhui, and of course, more from Henan. Most of them are from Henan, because of the great migration of people due to famine decades ago, and they basically did not return to their homeland, but chose to settle down elsewhere.
But if they return to their hometown, they will meet the group of old people who have not left, and hear about their experience of spending their lives in the old house. For those born between 1950 and 1970, going to the countryside and resuming the college entrance examination are two ways to change their place of residence, the former will allow people to passively reach a place to start a new life, and the latter will change the fate of the whole family in one fell swoop, moving from the countryside to the city.
In the post-80s and post-90s, the college entrance examination is an opportunity to choose a place of residence again, and few people choose to study in the same city. It can be seen that although technology has developed a lot in the past hundred years, the law of people's lives has not changed, that is, they either actively or passively leave home to start a life.
Standing in the long river of time, the county and the capital are all motionless there, but people come and go. Most of the time it is forced by life, after all, if there are rich choices, no one wants to "leave home and return to the eldest child, and the hometown accent has not changed and the sideburns are urging".
Therefore, theoretically speaking, farming for a living and craftsmen can live a lifetime without leaving the small county, and you can purchase salt and other necessities for a lifetime, but there are too many unexpected factors, people live for a hundred years, and few people are not affected by wars and natural disasters, so they still have to go out, as for the enjoyment of tourism, it did not exist at that time, only a very few people can travel around the country in their lifetime, and ordinary people will not leave home easily without encountering major events.