The Song Dynasty Trafficking Phenomenon Shallow Exploration

The Dynasty Song is a very particular dynasty in the history of China. On one hand, the Dynasty Song has an extraordinary social and political system, and its commodity economy was greatly developed. On the other hand, the Dynasty Song faced with a dilemma of weakness and poverty when it confronted the minority nationality. In this background, the Dynasty Song has a common phenomenon of human trafficking, and meanwhile its tendency of employment among the rich and the poor was more obviously than ever.This article probes mainly how a certain social reality-the human trafficking was during the South Dynasty Song and the North Dynasty Song in a particular social background. The first passage introduces the origin and history process of human trafficking before Dynasty Song. Moreover, this passage describes concretely the evolution of human trafficking until the Dynasty Song, the market of human trafficking, human trader as well as the existence and development of the contract of human trafficking.Secondly, the author discusses the detailed content of the human trafficking in the Song Dynasty. According to the sources and fate of these people, as well as business relationship, I also make detailed classification of such human trafficking. Moreover, in the description of the large-scale human trafficking of the Song Dynasty, It also make analysis of the geographical distribution, sex structure and age levels of population, the sale price and the contract documents. In addition, based on the former researching results, the author also analyses the reasons why the human trafficking of the Song Dynasty frequently occured in the aspects of economy, society, natural environment etc. I conclude that economy is neither the only nor the main factors that caused such human trafficking in the same period.Lastly, I analyze the social role which the government played in human trafficking. As far as I am concerned, the government of the Dynasty Song not only permitted human trafficking little, but permitted lawful trafficking under the principle of fairness and voluntary actions. And government also suppressed the crime of human trafficking from the point of view of the normal social order and curry favor with the public by the governors through ways of rescue and redemption to give people who was bought and sold freedom.