Song Dynastic Refugee Problem And Social Control

Refugee is always one of factors that result in convulsions. As other dynasties, Song dynasty also faced refugee problems which based on natural or social reasons in more than three hundred years. And even several large-scale refugee tides ever occurred. Song government took many measures and controlled refugee's negative influence availably so that refugees didn't bring serious ravages. Hence, from this point of view, the character of Song dynastic problem is tempered. On the other hand, Song government's regulation couldn't resolve drastically refugee problem because those measures didn't touch ground, such as plowland annexation, heavy tax and corvee and so on. But in such society of low productivity, the efforts made actively by Song government had brought much efficiency on refugee problem, which deserve our attention. Particularly, the positive attitude, channeling policy, consummate methods on city refugees as well as legal liability system for officials are still important references for us to resolve the problem of peasantry's swarming into cities and floating population problem nowadays.