Is the night watchman shouting in the street at midnight that the sky is dry and the fire is dry a civil servant?

Not counting civil servants, the night watchman can be compared with modern times, which can be said to be equivalent to the positions of auxiliary police or police and security guards patrolling at night. Because they couldn't rest at night, their status in ancient society was not very high.

Watchmen refer to people who knock bamboo gongs every night. Night patrol is a kind of night system in ancient folk, which produced a kind of professional watchman who patrolled at night, also known as watchman. Remind people what time it is. Now it only appears in movies or TV. In some places, people are reminded to guard against fire and theft, which is similar to the work of the night watchman.