Research On Smallholders Economic Situation And Countermeasures In Jingzhou And Yangzhou During The Six Dynasties

In the history of Southern Development,the Six Dynasties is the first critical period.With the large number of Han population migration to the south,The Six Dynasties government vigorously encouraged agricultural production,China’s southern commodity exchange is flourishing than the north.The smallholders economy was recovered and developed quickly,A peasant life in Qin and Han Dynasties "non frozen hungry people,nor the rich and powerful family",showing the complex characteristics in the Six Dynasties.Jingzhou and Yangzhou facing a volatile climate in the Six Dynasties,but the overall characteristics of the warm and humid there is no big change,This paper makes use of the literatures such as the "Three Kingdoms" and "Jin Shu",and the literatures unearthed in Changsha Zoumalou Wuzhang and Chenzhou Jinzhang,etc.,using historical documents,historical measurement and sociological research methods,This paper mainly studies the economic environment,the living conditions,the state of income and expenditure and the economic coping strategies of smallholders in Jingzhou and YangzhouFirst of all,the paper summarizes the warm and humid climate environment and rich animal and plant resources in Jing and Yangzhou states during the Six Dynasties period.The number of people in the southward period of the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties continued to grow,and the number of agricultural water conservancy projects in Jingzhou and Yangzhou increased,Agricultural technology and agricultural rice field yield development has been improved,the general summary of the Six Dynasties agricultural economy and agricultural development unfavorable factors.Secondly,the paper analyzes the economic environment of the Six Dynasties and the living conditions of small farmers from the perspective of finance and money.Sun Wu and the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties,the government finance long-term make ends meet,is the lack of supply of barracks led to deflation,short money flow caused by poor trading,urban tax cumbersome thriving small farmers engaged in commodity market exchange enthusiasm,and small farmers are closely related to rice,Cloth prices in a sharp decline in the small peasants pay the burden of taxation also will be further aggravated,the late Southern Dynasties,the gradual deterioration of the level of living of small farmers,small farmers living conditions are quite difficult.Thirdly,this paper uses the method of historical measurement to screen the relatively limited historical data.By analyzing the prices of the main consumer products of smallholders,this paper makes a preliminary quantitative analysis of the economic income and expenditure of the small farmers in Jingzhou and Yangzhou,and estimates the average annual economic income and economic expenditure situation,Generally speaking,in the six dynasties,smallholders of Jingzhou and Yangzhou generally make ends meet the economic situation.Smallholder’s economic situation is subject to three factors:natural disasters,war,tribal invasion and officials gathered,and Jing,Yang two states the majority of small farmers living conditions are only hovering in the food and clothing line,the late period of many small farmers even basic food and clothing are not Guarantee.Therefore,the paper focuses on exploring the strategy of smallholders to coping and reverses the worsening economic situation.Roughly one of the three categories:one is actively involved in market exchange,private lending,engaged in various ways such as domestic helpers,to supplement the income of small farmers economic sources;the second is through the increase in capital or official approach to reduce the official tax expenditure,including Mixed with the official flow,fraud to buy throne,title,Become a monk and Taoist,marked as a student identity etc or by fraud,bribery and other ways,false age and disease status,or large shade,etc.,to avoid the government to exploit;Is the exile to the weak control zone in the national territory,such as into the ethnic minority areas,Mountains and swamps,or by Jing,Yang area exile to the northern regime or Lingnan area,which became the last way of their survival.In conclusion,this paper mainly discusses the economic situation of the smallholder’s economy in the Six Dynasties and the various strategies adopted by the small farmers to deal with the economic difficulties.Through the exposition of the economic and income structure of the small peasant economy,the paper expounds the economic situation of the small peasantry in general,And the deepening of the economic structure of the small peasant economy in the region,To understand the weakening and even collapse of the regime in the South during the Six Dynasties,and the fundamental reason why the North regime finally unified China.