Is the night watchman who shouts in the street in the middle of the night that the sky is dry and the fire is dry a civil servant?

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

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