“杞人”为何要“忧天”

杞人为什么会忧天?从历史的角度进行分析,就会发现,杞人之所以忧天是因为他所生存的生态环境较之前的西周时期发生了很大的变化。战国时期,由于生产力的提高,人口迅速增加,大量荒地被开垦出来,各诸侯国之间战争不断,加上自然灾害的影响,生态环境的破坏很严重。正是在这种情况下,杞人发出了震惊世人的"忧天"呼声。杞人的忧患意识值得我们提倡和学习。

Why did Qiren worry about days? From a historical point of view,we would find the reason why Qiren worried about day was that the ecological environment of his living in the Westem Zhou peiod compared to the previous great changes had taken place.In the Warring States period,due to increased productivity,rapid increased population,a large number of wasteland had been cleared,War was ceaseless between every leud country,coupled with natural disasters,environmental degradation was very serious.Under this conditions,Qi shocked the world by giving a'worry-days'call.His misery consciousness is worthy for us to encourage and study.