A Research On Agriculture Economy Of Hunan In Qing Dynasty

The present agriculture economy is rooted from the past agricultureeconomy. A reasearch on the Qing Dynasty agriculture economy mayprovide a experience for the development of the present agricultureeconomy.I research the Hunan agriculture economy in Qing Dynasty by thedocument, and the material mainly comes from the local records of everycounty of Hunan in Qing Dynasty.The artile is maked up of five parts:The first part is about the rang of Hunan in Qing Dynasty and thenatural surroundings of Hunan.The second part is about the agriculture development of theDong-Ting plain in Qing Dynasty. The production of rice in Dong-Tingplain was vary flourishing in Qing Dynasty with the climate, geographysurroundings and the developoed water conservancy. In addition, someother crops such as" the cotton, the tea and so on was planted.The thired part inquire into the development of agriculture economyin mountain area and hills area in Hunan in Qing Dynasty. The populationof Hunan have increased very quickly in Qing Dynasty and a largenumber of wasteland was broughtunder cultivation in Kang-xi's rule With the further increment of the population, people poured into mountain area and reclaim the moutainarea in a large scale. People built a large number of water conservancy toserve the agriculture. The scale of ice production was very large and theeconomice croops such as cotton and tea was planted wide-rangingly.The fourth part evaluate agriculture economy of Hunan in QingDynasty. Hunan agriculture economy in Qing Dynasty have thecharachers of unbalance and commercialization, and point out that thenatural surroundings, agricultur policy, water conservancy, farmingtechnology, farm tools, and population are reasons for the reason ofdevelopment of Hunan agriculture in Qing Dynasty.and the destruction to natural environment.The fifth part is the concluding remarks. After simply summarizedthe development of Hunan agriculture economy in Qing Dydnasty and theinfluencment to the agriculture economy of later ages, the artical pointout that a knowledge about history is tiseful to the development in thepresent age.