| The rural fair is the place that inhabitants can transact products and gain means of production and livelihood. It not only has the economic function, but also has the political function and the social cultural function, which include each aspect of the people's social life and concentrate the changing of the village's social style in certain region. In the great surging change of modern China, the Henan rural fair gradually has the modern characters, at the same time it unfolds the movement path of Henan from the tradition to the modern. The content of this article is divided into six parts:Part one: The rural fair before late Qing dynasty. Before late Qing dynasty, the rural fair mainly is the place where the small producers exchange the agricultural by-products, operate the surplus and the lacks, but the small rural fair has the bigger proportion, and the great merchants were very few. The restriction of the reasons have many aspects, such as slow development of commodity economy, being strong of this agricultural thought of the villager.Part two: The rural fair of modern Henan. After the Sino-Japanese War, the quantity of rural fair has increased by a large margin because of the invasion and development of commodity economy, and the period of rural fair was shortened. The rural fairs are distributed differently, intensive in traffic main artery and plain areas, but sparse in mountain areas.Part three: The trade of rural fair in Modern Henan. The trade of rural fair mainly relys on the fixed shops and fixed country fair network to realize. The trading company has increased at the rural fair, the series of commodity were rich, and there are not only agricultural by-products but also foreign goods from Beijing-Guangzhou areas. It has many styles of Businessman, such as Chinese businessman and foreign trader compradors. The agricultural byproducts are not only sold to this province of this county but also taken to Beijing, Tianjin, Hankou, Shanghai, etc, even transferred to and...
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