The Study Of Disaster Relief During The Spring And Autumn And The Warring States Periods

Disaster rescue is an integral part of social rescue, which is also one of important manifestations of social coordinate ability. The Spring and Autumn Period is in the period of social profound changes, rendering social rescue complex features and conspicuous transitivity.This paper, based on analysing at length the types, characteristics of space-time distribution and the causes of disasters in the Spring and Autumn Period, expounds respectively the measures and thoughts of disaster rescue and points out that the Spring and Autumn Period actually experiences the transformation from passive response towards disasters to active disaster rescue. Meanwhile, this paper argues that the subject of implementation about disaster rescue changes from the kings to the people, from vassal states to all classes. In addition, disaster rescue between vassal states has covered people of other states, breaking through the limitation of simple mutual rescue. The thoughts of disaster rescue resulting from one period is generally the deep deliberation of pertinent social problems. The thoughts in this period emphasizes the importance of disaster prevention, refers to reform of fundamental social rescue ability and enforces effectively the unification among emphasizing agriculture, saving, storing and disaster rescue.Disaster rescue in the Spring and Antumn Period plays an awakening role in our traditional disaster rescue. The traditional response system of disasters from Han Dynasty is based in this periond and develops step by step, which will also be significative to our contemporary disaster rescue and the establishment of current rescue structure.