The Study Of The Economic Development Of Anhui Jizheng In The Qing Dynasty

During Ming and Qing dynasty,domestic commodity economy made greater progress than before .Because of the center of its position,Anhui became the important area which the commodity circulation between most areas past in our country,the traders and commodities from all directions swarmed into the market of Anhui. With the spring tide of commodity economy,the commodity economy in Anhui also made marked progress. A lot of vicinal agricultural products, byproducts and the strange goods sold or transported here established the enough material bases for booming of the country fairs and towns. At the same time,a network of communication lines,which extended in all directions,came into being in Anhui because of the center of the position. The above are the reasons why the country fairs and towns in Anhui flourished in Ming and Qing period. Under the circumstances,the quantity of country fairs and towns in Anhui began to increase greatly after the middle of Ming dynasty.Although the quantity of country fairs and towns ever decreased rapidly because of the war and the natural calamity in the late Ming and the early Qing,after the recovering for more than one hundred years,the quantity of country fairs and towns increased more rapidly since Qianlong period in Qing dynasty than in the Ming dynasty. We can see the general course of the development of the country fairs and towns in Anhui in Ming andQing period through the changes of the quantity in every stage. The distribution of the country fairs and towns also had some features in Ming and Qing period. In general,the country fairs and towns distributed like a net. Affected by the changes of the quantity of the country fairs and towns,density of the net changed in every stages. More over,affected by the communication terrain ete.,density of the net was not even.The economy of the country fairs and towns developed greatly in the period. The frequency of opening the country fairs increased so fast fairs that opened every two days had existed widely in the Qing dynasty.