宋代动物保护诏令探究

A Probe into the Animal Protection Order in the Song Dynasty

宋代是儒、释、道三教逐渐调和、趋于统一的时期,三教思想中的生态观念为宋代动物保护提供了思想基础。宋廷通过发布诏令规定了动物保护的种类、时间及地区,在此基础上通过采取诸如加强宣传、建立奖惩机制、完善市场管理等手段,加强了对动物保护的强度和力度,此举反映了宋代动物保护诏令具有具体性、灵活性及政治目的性的特征。宋代动物保护诏令的颁布与实施,在一定程度上减少了对动物肆意滥杀的发生,为动物物种多样性的延续与生态和谐性的维护发挥了重要作用。

The Song Dynasty was a period when Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism gradually reconciled and tended to unify. The ecological concepts in the three thoughts provided the ideological foundation for animal protection in the Song Dynasty. Song Ting stipulated the type, time, and area of animal protection by issuing a decree. On this basis, the intensity and strength of animal protection were strengthened by adopting measures such as strengthening publicity, establishing reward and punishment mechanisms, and improving market management. Out of the Song Dynasty animal protection orders have the characteristics of specificity, flexibility and political purpose.The promulgation and implementation of the Song Dynasty animal protection edicts have, to some extent, reduced the phenomenon of indiscriminate killing of animals, playing an important role in the continuation of animal species diversity and the maintenance of ecological harmony.