先秦时期的救荒防灾思想及其现实意义

22.Pre Qin Ideas of Relieving a Famine and Guarding against Natural Calamities and Their Immediate Significance

先秦时期处于社会形态的更替变动阶段 ,当时的统治者已对灾荒防治问题很重视。《周礼》把国家的救灾备荒工作概括为“荒政”范畴 ,后世救灾备荒一直沿用荒政概念。先秦荒政包容了广泛的政策思想 ,许多被后世奉为理论依据的救荒思想和政策 ,在先秦时已陆续提出和运用。

In the Pre Qin period its social formation was in a changing stage of ups and downs. The rulers then attached great importance to the problem of guarding against famime and disaster. In Zhou Li, the book considered to be written by the Duke of Zhou, was summarized the state work of relieving victims of a disater and preparing against famine in the category of measures for relief of a famine, the conception of which was adopted trroughout the ages. Pre Qin measures for relief of a famine covers a wide range of ideas in policy and many of them in regard to famine relief and its policy, looked upon as theoretical basis thronghout the ages, were mostly put forward and to use one ofter another in the Pre Qin period. On today's work, the work of relieving a famine and guarding against natural calamities we still can gain a great deal of enlightment from the ideas of measures for relief of a famine.\;