Utilization of human excrement in pre-modern China,its theoretical interpretations and ecological significance
作者机构：Institute for the History of Natural SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100190China Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science&TechnologyUniversity of Science and Technology BeijingBeijing 100083China Faculty of HistoryNankai UniversityTianjin 300350China Research Center for Eco Environmental SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100085China
出 版 物：《Soil Ecology Letters》 (土壤生态学快报（英文）)
年 卷 期：2024年第6卷第1期
页 面：1-5页
核心收录：
学科分类：09[农学] 090101[农学-作物栽培学与耕作学] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 0901[农学-作物学] 0713[理学-生态学]
基 金：supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(Grant No.2020157)
主 题：excrement fertilizer theorization urban and rural ecology public health
摘 要：The use of human excrement as fertilizer is a characteristic of traditional Chinese agriculture..The application of excrement from urban residents in agriculture since the Song Dynasty has ensured the cleanliness and hygiene of *** early as the Ming Dynasty,the Chinese people defined the principle of fertilizing fields with human excrement from the perspective of *** concept Peri-URban ecosystems(PURE)provides inspiration forurban-rural symbiosis regarding *** use of human excrement in fertilization is a major attribute differentiating the Chinese traditional agriculture from the agriculture in other regions around the *** the fact that the exact record showing that human excrement was used as fertilizer in China emerged in the Western Han Dynasty(B.C.202-A.D.8),such records did not become prevalent until the Southern Song Dynasty(A.D.1127-1279).In the Ming and Qing eras(A.D.1368-1912),human excrement was even consideredtop-class fertilizerand servedas themost essential fertilizerin farmland *** importance of human excrement in the Ming and Qing was mainly reflected by farmers purchase of human excrement from urban *** fertilization practices became increasingly popular during the period,men of letters built a localized theoretical system centering on human *** the use of human excrement had both positive and negative impacts on public health and the ecological environment,the positive overshadowed the negativeas a ***,it is worth pondering on how the utilization of human excrement as an agricultural resource can be improved so that a material cycle system can be rebuilt to re-connect the urban and rural areas.
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