The Study On Salt Problem Of Jin Dynasty

Salt is necessary in people’s life, it is also an important part of ancient national financial income. All rulers have attached great importance to the production and marketing of salt, as a national monopoly goods. Salt is the most important one of monopoly goods In Jin Dynasty. The issue of salt is very important, but the study of the salt in Jin Dynasty is generally the management system and institutions, rarely involved in other aspects. This article is about the technology of salt manufacturing,the production’s place and marketing scope of salt, and illegal salt in three aspects of Jin Dynasty, the research’s purpose is to make a supplement for the issue of Jin Dynasty’s salt industry.This paper is based on the existing historical data and archaeological discoveries to make a reasonable inference about the salt industry’s technology of Jin Dynasty.Jin Dynasty’s salt technologies are about sea salt, local salt and jie salt. The production’s technology of sea salt in Jin Dynasty mainly includes the scraping soil and pouring brine, incinerating and pouring brine, digging a well to take salt brine and sunbathing salt, four methods in total. The production of local salt is described from the scraper, making halogen, crystallizing salt in three aspects; Jie salt introduces the border check’s shape, balanced brackish and evaporation from three stages. Because the production of sea salt and local salt are similar, comparing them.It is "the road" as the unit to study the production’s place and marketing scope of salt in Jin Dynasty. First, making the examination of production’s place of salt recorded. In Jin Dynasty, the scope of salt marketing part is made mainly according to the aspects such as environment, habit, and transportation costs and so on. It is mainly discusses the existence of chaos about salt bureau’s marketing division between Shandong and Cangzhou. The scope of Bureau’s marketing in Shandong is listed in the form of tableThe illegal salt part of Jin Dynasty is introduced from dignitaries, people,saltworks, cross-border sales; The reason of salt illegal salt is introduced from salt industry’s policy, salt price and the quality of salt, including the special reasons of Jiesalt smuggling; Measures are taken in some aspects such as management institution,salt’s officials, and law to prevent illegal salt.