The Iron Industry Research From Qing Dynasty To The Republic Of China Period

During the Ming and Qing dynasties,Chinese ancient commodity economy developed rapidly and regional economy got great development in this golden period.Shanxi merchants seized the opportunity and became one of the strong business group.As the part of jin merchants,Zelu merchants became properity under the background of the development of Shan Xi commodity economy,Iron goods brand jersey firm businessman is one of the major commodity products,andpromote the development of the Zelu businessman.Zezhou is one of the most important production areas that produced iron;the production of iron products in the northern areastook the important part of the history ofsmelting ironin ancient China.Tai-yang Tschoenn is one of the steel industry center of the Zezhou;steel needle produced by here had a wide range marketing and has the reputation of “the capital of needle”.Tai-yang Tschoenn crucible ironmaking technology,Fried furnace,the furnace technology promoted the development ofiron industry directly of the Tai-yang Tschoenn.With the development of the iron industry,special smelting furnace had appearedto the Qing dynasty in Tai-yang Tschoenn.The emergence of furnace field is an important symbol of scale,specialization of the iron industry.Furnace field had a set of mature and intensive production management mode from the form of capital organization,workers management to the production costs.Although the iron industry of Tai-yang Tschoenn was a specialized production,but they still used the traditional production technology.By the end of Qing dynasty,western iron products pour into China,China traditional iron smelting industry received great impact.Besides that there were various unfavorable factors In the domestic,iron industry completely withered.Iron smelting industry is the most important industries for Tai-yang Tschoenn and had a important influence on social life.Through the study of iron of Tai-yang Tschoenn,we can have a more clear understanding for the iron production as well as to the local social life alsohave a positive role for understanding Shanxi merchants or Zelumerchants.