Nursing home - Nursing home

…In the Song Dynasty, as cities developed and poor people began to gather there, the government also began to implement full-scale poverty relief policies. At the beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of Emperor Huizong at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, this reached its peak, when in all the prefectures and counties throughout the country, hospitals (for the elderly), Anjibo (for medical care), and Luozeyuan (for cemeteries) were established to house the homeless poor and the dead, and within the city walls, a system of providing food and lodging for a few months in winter was established. In Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were more than 5,000 poor people who received grain every three to five days in the winter, and in years of famine, the number increased to enormous numbers due to the influx of people from the surrounding areas. …

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…宋代に入って都市が発達し，貧しい人たちがそこに集まりはじめると，政府も本格的な救貧政策に取り組んだ。12世紀初め，北宋末の徽宗（きそう）時代はその一つのピークで，全国の府州県に居養院(養老)，安済坊(医療)，漏沢園(墓地)が設けられ，よるべなき貧窮者や死者を収容し，城郭内では，冬の数ヵ月間を限って食糧と寝所を提供する制度が定着化した。　南宋の国都臨安では，冬期に3日ないし5日に1回穀物を支給される貧民が5000人以上を数え，飢饉などの年には周囲よりの流入人口も加えておびただしい数にのぼった。…

※「居養院」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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