The Research Of The Escaping Families In Song Dynasty

Families’escaping is a common historical phenomenon in ancient China, has always been focused on by all the ruler of ancient China. This phenomenon particularly serious in song dynasty as the complex society reasons.The lower Zhuhu (family that lived in a place and owned land there for generations), about sixty percent of whole population, is a major part of the escaping families in song dynasty, they not only have to pay the summer and autumn taxes in the law, other taxes in disguise, but also bear a large number of compulsory labor, living conditions are extremely serious. The escaping families off membership, someone attached to the well-off become bandits, someone industrial, commercial and subsistence, or became bandits. Families’escaping result of a significant reduction in the membership population, impossible to levy taxes lord hair, increased social instability factors, a serious threat to the stability of the regime Song. In the ordinance and memorial to the throne of Songhuiyaqjigao, can be seen, famine, war and heavy taxes and corvee are the main reasons of families’escaping in the Song dynasty, and the most concentrated area mainly in the Liangzhe Road, the Huainan Road, Jiangnan East Road, generally is north china and central China, densely populated areas today.For the seriousness of the escaping families, the Song rulers have taken a series of countermeasures to appease the fugitives, providing the food and clothing, helping them return to their home, protecting escapers’property within a certain period of time. These reflect the social welfare and relief system in the Song Dynasty have been very perfect in ancient China. At the same time, the Song promulgates a number of decrees to control the lacuna escape; to against posing escaping families trick preferential treatment behavior, and account increases and decreases in the assessment project of the local officials, and with the socio-economic development, government improved the identity of Guanzhuang customers. These strict laws control population to flee, with other conciliatory policies complement each other, became a political system, together to control population management with escape...