How The People Lived In Confucian - By: David Bunch

Life in Asia was of a kind that Americans would consider very backward. A few of the people-the princes, noblemen, and great merchants-were very rich, richer than anyone in America or Europe ever seems to be, with thousands of jewels and hundreds of servants and big palaces. All the rest of the people were very poor. They usually did not get quite enough to eat, and every now and then when the crops failed there would be a famine and millions of them would die. Disease killed millions more while they were children or young men and women.

Very few of the people could read and write, and most of them lived in the poorest kind of huts, with no electricity or running water or cooking stoves. Nearly all of them were farmers. They worked hard from morning to night and were still poor. All this was true not only of some parts of Asia, but of nearly every part, from west to east, from north to south. Asia is still far behind Europe and America, but conditions have been improving every year. More and more of the people are becoming educated. The methods of farming are becoming more modern.

Ways of preventing disease are being taught to the people, and doctors and medicines and hospitals are saving those who do become sick. Asia still does not raise quite enough food for its huge population, and it may be some time before many of the people have bathrooms and refrigerators and automobiles, but they are improving their conditions every year. Of course, it would be wrong to think that all of Asia is backward. There are many big cities with fine buildings and factories and universities. It is to the people outside the big cities that real civilization is now being introduced.

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