How did the ancient Tang Dynasty deal with garbage?

Compared with the so-called "no bathing for 1000 years" in medieval Europe, the Tang Dynasty in China actually suffered more absolute pressure on urban sanitation. There were four or five thousand people in medieval cities in Europe, and tens of thousands of people were megacities. This small group of people has caused a lot of trouble in the city. During the Tang and Song Dynasties in China, there were hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in big cities, which was a great challenge. So it is more standardized.

Compared with the regulations of littering in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Tang Dynasty was not so cruel, but it was never strict. According to the "Law of the Tang Dynasty", littering and even dumping sewage from the window are everywhere, and the lightest one was seized 60 boards. Moreover, not only the perpetrators, but also the officials of the competent departments will be punished jointly and severally. Therefore, if Europeans immigrated to China during the Tang Dynasty, but also brought some bad habits of European cities, I'm afraid they would be beaten up in a few days.

Of course, it is obviously not enough to solve this health problem by beating. Greater progress in the Tang Dynasty was a powerful economic means. Thanks to the developed agricultural production in the Tang Dynasty, the recycling of wastes such as feces has gradually become a hot industry. There were such "entrepreneurial elites" in all major cities in the Tang Dynasty. Pei, a typical Hedong person, recorded in Taiping Guangji that this person engaged in recycling and reselling garbage such as feces all his life and actually accumulated millions of assets. Step into the rich class in Tang Dynasty. This increasingly hot industry in the Tang Dynasty also maintained the clean life of the cities in the Tang Dynasty.