Ming Dynasty Central Plains, Population Migration And Its Impact On Economic Development

The Ming Dynasty is the period in which the population flowed extremely frequently in our country, which is occupying the important status in the Chinese population history. According to the full and accurate historical data, this article reveals the reason in which the massive immigrations entered the area south of Yellow River (this article refers to Henan Province in particular), is geography and history factor of this area, the dynasty economic thoughts, at that time Henan's situation as well as the balance of the labor force .This four kind of factors mutually play the role in the immigration, and then the article concretely analyzed and elaborated the area south of Yellow River immigrant's process and its population distribution in Henan and so on. In the later period of Ming Dynasty, Henan produced massive refugees. And analyzing the reason which it forms, this article agreed the viewpoint that the land exceptionally strongly annexes at that time fiercely, the farmer lost the most basic subsistence means, in addition the serious land rent and swung the service burden as well as the society natural disaster influence. Only this caused the general populace to be compelled to go into exile the another region, thus became the social refugee.Take this as the foundation, this article launches the concrete analysis, from it, we may understand just because massively immigrates to move into Henan, the labor force massive could be increased, and the population quantity to be multiplied rapidly in the short time. This alleviated the Henan labor force deficiency condition and urged the Henan economic recovery and development.The immigration moved into Henan, firstly caused many abandoned land to be obtained the reclamation, the agriculture cultivated area to be massively increased. And the Henan society's planter structure had been changed, industrial crop for example cotton obtained the wide spread planting. This provided the rich raw material for the commodity agriculture, handicraft industry and trading. With it, the commodity economy flourished, the agriculture flourished, the handicraft industry flourished and Henan's trading as well as the small town economy flourished.