Research on the Defense System of Meteorological Disasters in Ancient China

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10.2991/isss-16.2016.21How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Meteorological disasters; disaster prevention; famine relief; legal system

Abstract

In ancient China, there was a profound understanding of meteorological disasters, and formed a unique set of defense ideology and system. Along with the deepening of the cognition of nature, since pre Qin period, two kinds of meteorological disasters prevention thoughts are develop rapidly, that is, post disaster relief and pre disaster prevention . Some thought has also been adopted by the rulers and rise to the legal system, which provides guidance to the disaster prevention, help the victims and the situation grasp. Through the analysis and research of these ideas and systems, we extract the content which is worthy to our inheritance and development, as a reference for today's weather disaster defense work.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Na Zhang
AU  - Hao Liu
AU  - Wei Cui
PY  - 2016/05
DA  - 2016/05
TI  - Research on the Defense System of Meteorological Disasters in Ancient China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 89
EP  - 95
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isss-16.2016.21
DO  - 10.2991/isss-16.2016.21
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