Explore The Food Ration Of Weastern Han Dynasty

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Chinese ancient society completed thechange which from the enfeoffment system to centralized system, and formed theimperial regime. It needs a lot of manpower and material resources to safeguard thenational order’s normal operation, such as officials, laborers who work at nationalengineering,.Food rationing system is the state provide daily necessary food for thesepeople or institutions who work for it.By the state finance is responsible for the food rationing object have official,peon and animal husbandry, military service and their families, the elderly and othersocial groups. These receive record scattered in the literature handed down andbamboo instruments, in the Western Han dynasty rule,’Transfer Room’ as animportant link contains a lot of information: official travel food supply, the records oftransfer horse raise situation,.We can speculation the overall situation of the WesternHan Dynasty from these records. In addition, food rationing is often irrelevant to thesocial identity,which reflect the Qi Min’s philosophy. So we can say that this set offood rationing system is in order to maintain social stability.Food rationing program generally includes reporting, approval, issuance, audit,four parts’ Da Si Nong ’and it’s officer responsible for the corresponding operation ofthe Western Han’s goverment. The food rationing system also has a perfectsupervision system. At that time, strict program of books" check book", provides thepossibility for supervision. Secondly, the Han Dynasty has gradually formed a"government prime minister directly negative inspector responsibility, and censor inCheng from adjacent monitoring " monitoring system, also plays a regulatory role.The punishment case for illegal can be seen in the literature, indicating that theregulatory system is implemented. Although the government has a strict regulationsystem on food rationing, but officials corruption events often happen in the foodration.