First of all, the nature is different.

The ancient post office was an official organization, whose main job was to welcome and send officials to various places, provide accommodation and change horses, and was a non-profit organization, and civil servants were free.

There is no free treatment for civil servants in the inn, not to mention the high-cost horse exchange business.

Second, the origin time is different.

Ancient Post Station: The word "female" and "female" were found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed in Yin Ruins, which was related to transmitting information. Beacon towers and post offices were established in the Zhou Dynasty to transmit military information. In the Han dynasty, there was a post station every 30 miles, which was in charge of Qiu.

Inn: it appeared in the pre-Qin period of Shang, Zhou and is a kind of travel prevention, post station, post house, government station, inn and so on.

Station configuration:

The most important purpose of the post station is to rest on official business, and rooms are naturally indispensable. For example, Yucheng Station in Gaoyou is equipped with more than 65,438+000 rooms for tourists to rest.

Of course, this is a relatively prominent post station. Small-scale post stations naturally don't have so many houses, but they will never lack this configuration. As for the internal layout of the room, there is no specific record. However, The Travels of Marco Polo described the general situation of rooms in Yuan Dynasty.

Because the rooms in the post station may be used for the temporary residence of dignitaries, Cheng Yi dared not make them messy, and even decorated them carefully when necessary.