清人应对有害动物的策略述评

Review of Strategies for Dealing with Harmful Animals in Qing Dynasty——One of the Animal Ethics Researches in Qing dynasty

清人应对有害动物的策略主要有以下三种:一是必须全面认识这些动物的属性,分清利害,然后采取相应的策略;二是当动物对人类构成威胁或潜在威胁的时候,以驱赶、捕杀等手段应对之,是完全必要的;三是人类为了拓展生存空间以及解除某些有害动物的潜在威胁,进入它们生活的区域,适度地进行驱赶或捕杀,也是必要的,但是除恶务尽的策略则是错误的。

There are three strategies for dealing with harmful animals in Qing Dynasty： firstly, people must have a comprehensive understanding of the properties of these harmful animals, and then adopt different corre- sponding strategies with different animals; secondly, it is necessary to utilize herding and hunting ways to deal with the harmful animals when animals pose a threat to human beings; thirdly, in order to expand living space of human being and relieve the potential threat from those harmful animals, it is also necessary to enter into the harmful animals living area and drive or kill them moderately, but uprooting all harmful animals is wrong.