魏晋北朝疫病流行及救助

魏晋十六国北朝疫病流行呈现出连绵不断的趋势。疫病流行大多发生在人口聚居稠密的地区,水旱灾害和战争之后也往往伴随着疫病流行;疫病爆发多在冬春季节交替之时。北方军队在南征的过程中因不适应长江流域的湿热气候,也经常发生疫病流行,疫病流行遏制了北方军队进入长江流域的势头。疫病流行影响了社会经济的发展,对民众的生命财产构成严重的威胁。人们对疫病流行的危害有了明确的认识,政府及社会各阶层开始采取诸如抚恤疫病死亡者的家属、医药防治等一系列的救助措施。

Epidemic Disease Spreading and Patients Assistingin the Wei, Jin and Northern Dynasties

The epidemic disease in the Wei, Jin, Sixteen States and Northern Dynasties spread continuously. Epidemic disease mostly took place in the place where many people lived, and spread with bloods, droughts and war. The epidemic disease mostly broke out between spring and winter. Because the northern army didn't adapt to the damp and hot climate of the Yangtze River valley in the process of fighting south, the epidemic disease often took place, too. The epidemic disease influenced the development of social economy, and seriously threatened people's lives and properties. People had already realized the danger of epidemic disease, and the government and society of different levels began to adopt a series of assisting measures such as distributing allowances to the relatives of those who died of epidemic disease and preventing and controlling epidemic disease with medicine,etc.