Food Relief Of The Qing Dynasty And Its Local Implementation

It’s well-known that "Country regard people as its root, People take food as the sky." Food is a basic material condition for human survival and a production of products which is related to the people’s livelihood, and plays an important role in people’s daily lives; everybody can’t liv without it, like fish can’t live without water. China as a country based on agriculture."people-oriented" policy thinking has always been throughout the history of China, under the guidance of the thought, successive rulers in ancient China attaches great importance to farming and pacify the people, maintain the rule. Food Policy is based on farming, the geographical location, and an importance to agriculture and food’s policy of the emperors, as a guiding principle of governance.The Qing Dynasty, Guangxi which is a national minority community, located in Southwest of China. Its commodity economy has received a number of developments, but compared to Jiang Nan, Guangdong Province and other developed areas, still relatively fell behind. The local social environment is also un-optimistic, always affected by natural or man-made disasters. In addition national policy is also affected by geographical factors, so if there is a natural disasters or famine, the government authorities relief which is backed by State, is unable to realize due to the saying "The leadership of a vast country can hardly have its directives fully carried out across the territory."This paper take the grain relief policy as a breakthrough point. Investigate the specific performance of the Qing Dynasty food relief policy and its implementation in Guangxi. and discuss the status and the function of the social various social strata which locales in the grain relief, from which to Comprehend the practical significance of the Qing Dynasty grain relief policy to the social security systems construction in Guangxi.In this paper that the main participants of the food relief policy contains two forces, the official strength and the folk strength. In the implementation of the policy, presented the following characteristic, the central government was still the main force in the implementation of relief, but encountered the challenges of the local forces and civil forces, and fought side by side with non-governmental forces in the relief of rescue process, did good deeds on public assistance together.