Ming Dynasty Households Posts

The foundation and development of Hutie in Ming Dynasty, is a dynamic process of evolution. The Hutie system in early Ming Dynasty, based on comprehensive census, established strictly hierarchical structure of society, reflecting the traditional concept of political ethics, as well as the Doctrine of Kingcraft. With the rise of Yellow Register, Hutie's main function in early Ming Dynasty, was gradually replaced by Yellow Register. Hutie, subsequently, turned into a new physical carrier: Qingong-Hutie, which developed into the foundation of the Yellow Register system. Its partial functions, at the same time, such as household registration, remained in operation, remedying and consolidating the household registration system of Ming Dynasty. The transformation of Hutie in early Ming Dynasty is not only a form of a written instrument, but also a functional variation, reflecting the system's evolution and transformation. As an extension of the Hutie system in early Ming Dynasty, mechanism of annual population count, as always, inherited substantive features involving noneconomic agents, existing throughout the most part of the Ming Dynasty. As a relatively independent population statistics system, the mechanism for annual population count was not directly related to the issues of land tax and corvee service of the Ming Dynasty, which had made its running orbit without showing a normal distribution, as well as leaving a string of formidable questions of demographic behavior. What the legacies Hutie left to all posterity in Ming Dynasty, are no more than the rigorously statistical method for population, and population thought of generational control, based on the determinism of household register. This fully reflects the traditional concept of social population control, stemming from Chinese imperialistic society.