Lottery And Society In Late Qing Dynasty

In recent years, the information of the welfare lottery and sports lottery is often caused a sensation inour society; however, the lottery is not a new social thing. As early as a hundred years ago, the newspaperfull of the news of the lottery, the government and private had a different attitude to lottery.The development of the lottery closely related to the society of the late Qing Dynasty. Western powersbroken the state of China closed-door policy, China had been involved in the world capitalist market, andChina had begun to understand the West. Then, the economy had been developed about China’s coastal andalong the Yangtze River areas, that stimulate the birth of Modern workers and the formation of the newconsumer environment. More importantly, the conscious of capitalism became a popular. The economicenvironment encouraged people to buy lottery. The most direct reason is that the characteristics of lottery（less investment, more profit) attracted many people to buy lottery.There are two main reasons for the prohibition of lotteries.On the one hand, lack of a sound legal toregulate the lottery market, on the other hand, the late Qing government to implement the New Deal had torepeal the lottery. Although there were many issues in the process of Lottery Distribution. But also need tobe aware of the positive impact. The emergence of the lottery in the economy, firstly promoted theappearance of Premium Sales, secondly modern industrial civilization integrated into the society, thirdlymarketing the lottery to become an industry to solve some people’s livelihoods, fourth supported China’srailway construction. In the ideological field, the lottery had inspired people to suppress awareness ofgoing the pursuit of profit, profit-driven concept is conducive to encouraging workers to create more socialwealth, but at the time led to the expansion of the chances and luxury consumption. The late Qing Dynasty is home and less abroad to today, look back to this reality in addition to the"sense of shame nearly courage", but also need to address the quiet progress of the late Qing Dynastyreflected in civic action. This progress slumped in the late Qing period, although minimal, it is in smallsteps forward, a nation to a new history.