However, in ancient China, not many people lived long, but very few. ? Is it rare to be 70 years old? This sentence is no joke.
Because not many people live long, and all kinds of emergencies, the average life expectancy of people at that time was very low.
Some scholars have made a rough estimate. Can you imagine that the average life expectancy of people in the pre-Qin period was only eighteen? Even in the Tang and Song Dynasties, when the economy and culture were relatively developed, the average age of people was only controlled at around thirty.
In modern times, people around the age of 30 may just get married, or even get married! To say that China ancient medical technology, Chinese medicine is indeed profound, so why is the average life expectancy of ancient people still so low?
First, the life of ancient people was very rough, and there were always many hardships waiting for them.
When it comes to reducing the average life expectancy of the ancients, infant mortality accounts for the majority.
In ancient times, the infant mortality rate was very high. Even though he was born in Plutocratic family, he was served by a special person every day and lived a delicate and comfortable life. He was probably knocked down by a small cold, but he died if he didn't make it.
In the final analysis, this is also because people's physical resistance was very poor at that time, especially the sons and daughters living in large families, who lived a fine life and wanted to be handed over to their mouths every day.
Lack of exercise, of course, the ancients also had little awareness of exercising and enhancing resistance.
In addition, ancient children tend to be precocious, and they have to put on airs as adults since childhood. In order to appear dignified and suppress their nature, they lack the liveliness that only belongs to children.
After a few days, children can jump up and down. Although they often give their parents a headache, their physical fitness is gradually strengthened in this kind of exercise.
In addition, our children will be vaccinated at a specific age to prevent various common childhood diseases, which also makes modern children grow up safely with great probability.
Therefore, from all aspects, it is not surprising that the early death rate of ancient children is high.
Just because a child grows up doesn't mean that he will be safe and healthy all his life.
You know, in ancient times, diseases such as smallpox, malaria and plague, if they happened casually, or in the era of frequent wars, would take another wave of people's lives casually and reduce the average life expectancy of the ancients.
In other words, even in peacetime, the ancients did not dare to guarantee that they would not get sick. A minor illness would probably kill them, but in adulthood, it is not necessarily that they will not encounter natural and man-made disasters.
In a word, the ancients almost faced the threat of losing their lives from birth to growth.
Second, although TCM is extensive and profound, there are still many diseases that cannot be solved in a specific period.
Although Chinese medicine seems profound today, why did the ancient people still have a high mortality rate when they were sick?
Because we must know that Chinese medicine can reach such a high level today, and because it has been developed from generation to generation, future generations have explored it step by step on the shoulders of predecessors.
For example, Hua Tuo in the Three Kingdoms period, Zhang Zhongjing in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, etc., although famous, left many medical works for future generations to study.
So Chinese medicine is gradually improved step by step. Before these people appeared, Chinese medicine was blank. Although later people overcame the medical problem of predecessors, it was almost impossible to solve this problem before.
For example, like a certain plague, there may be no cure in the Han Dynasty, but the dynasties after the Han Dynasty can find a solution to this disease according to the research of the previous dynasty.
In addition, the low life expectancy of ancient people is closely related to the price of drugs in addition to the underdeveloped medical level.
We can imagine that even in a wealthy family, people in the family are sick and have the best doctors, but they may still die in the end. Are these people short of money? No, they just lack better medical technology.
The families of dignitaries who are not short of money will still be underdeveloped because of medical technology at that time, not to mention those families who were born in poverty and could not afford doctors and medicines.
When they are sick, most of them can only fight hard and stick to it. If they can't fight, they will have to accept their fate. For that incurable disease, they just wait for death at home.
Third, because of the short life span, the living environment faced by the ancients was very embarrassing.
Because of the short life span, many things of the ancients have to be advanced. For example, children should be forced to be precocious, such as men marrying women and having children. From growing up to getting married to having children, in the eyes of most people today, it takes at least 20 years or more to prepare.
However, in many dynasties, both men and women were around 15 years old and could solve major problems in life. By the age of 30, they have seen the prosperity and loneliness of the world and become the ancestors of their grandchildren.
Think of goose bumps all over the floor, because there are many people who are still unmarried in their thirties, but the ancients lived the life of people in their fifties and sixties at the age of thirty.
However, there is no way. After all, time waits for no one, and if we don't finish the course of life, we will face the embarrassing situation of childlessness, and there will be today's great country!
Summary:
The times are progressing, so with the development of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, many cases related to people's health have been solved by medical technology, and people's living standards are constantly improving. People pay more and more attention to the topic of health preservation.
The most important thing is that we are now in a relatively harmonious and stable society without war. So on the whole, it is not surprising that the average life expectancy is increasing day by day.
Although natural and man-made disasters will still take some lives, although some diseases have not been completely overcome at present, I believe these problems will be well solved in the near future.
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