The Study Of Lower Level Civilian's Economic Life Of Yangzhou Region In Ming And Qing Dynasties

In Ming and Qing dynansties, Yangzhou region in the "canal, river and salt" three advantage motivated, economic development has rapidly developed. In Kangxi and Qianlong period,Yangzhou was most prosperous, became megacities of Huaihe region south. Yangzhou became widely known, most of the people hope to go. Poetry, notes and the fall of Yangzhou study of the rich is strongly praised. However, I believe that the prosperity of Yangzhou depended on salt industry. It was her pillar industry. But , the salt industry was resource-based industry, for the control of the government and monopoly of businessmen, citizen could not involved. So Salt industry profits was alone occupied by salt merchants. Meanwhile, the salt industry trade features naturally caused the economic gap between salt sales areas and non-salty areas. Therefore, the rich of Yangzhou was limited. It should only belongs to the salt zone and and salt merchants. In the study rarely mentioned predecessors Economic conditions of life of ordinary citizen is an important criterion for measuring the economic area, but also an important basis for analyzing economic vicissitude, academic research has increasingly attention to the lower.Better understanding of the economic situation of Yangzhou in Ming and Qing dynasties, explaining his "short" downtown, they must be tentacles extending toward the lower. But this kind of research was few. Therefore, I intend to make an attempt on this subject.In order to more clearly show the economic landscape of Yangzhou, I breakthrough usual restrictions boundaries, put my study in the entire region of Yangzhou.1. Ming and Qing period Yangzhou area development profile. In accordance with the time sequence, I asked for the prosperity and decline of Yangzhou and highlighted its salty development characteristics. Salt industry created a group of wealthy businessmen. Wealth flowed to the lower in their consumption of luxury, thus creating businesses flourish in the magnificent appearance. This economic characteristics affecting their citizen's life : First of all, survival space provided by lopsided consumption, caused the citizen's industry complex. In the Southern District, people have a "Hi merchant, not a farm" Careers trends; Secondly, the economic patterns added more earning risk. Once the commercial capital lose, the citizen will lose their...