Huang Zongxi Economic Legislation Thought

Huang Zongxi was a great initiative thinker between the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing dynasty. He has made outstanding achievement in the political, economic and cultural fields. The most magnificent part of Huang Zongxi's economic legislation thought is the one about the basic role that agriculture, industry and trade play. Guided by this idea, he further proposed to recover"the well field system"for the condition of intensely estate annexation. He proposed"to tax aims at the estate only","tax payment by material object","devise estate rank", for the reality of the heavy tax. In the currency domain, he proposed"abolish the gold and the silver", to take"the coin law"and"the bill law"to deal with the social reality of"the silver has been depleted'. Huang Zongxi's economic legislation thought has a strong warning role to the current reform of rural taxes and fees.