A Research About Night Fair Of Chinse City During Ming And Qing Dynasties

The night market，that is a kind of market at ninght. As a product of commodityeconomy development, it has been around as early as in ancient China. The nightmarket was originally produced in Han Dynasty,and it rapidely developmented inthe Tang Dynasty, especially in the late Tang Dynasty. Then it became maturegradually in the Song Dynasty,for it’s expansion of the scale, a variety of goods andconsiderate service. Consumer groups in the night market in Song Dynasty is notonly The nobles,so it lays the foundation for ancient Chinese market of civilian.With the further development of commodity economy, Jiangnan region had anemergence of capitalism and some city had been in the modernization process in theMing Dynasty.At the same time, the night market had developed to the stage ofancient society. The phenomenon of people’ tolerant for merchants in Ming Dynastyeven do business actively make the city night market is becoming a popular nightmarket. Ordinary people’s lives gradually extravagant, and the night market becomea palce to pursue the pleasure. During the reign of Kangxi, the economy began torecover and The night market was also gradually restored,so the Qing Dynasty’ nightmarket was the continuation to the Ming Dynasty’s.As a product of a certain degree of development of the commodity economy,thenight market’s development process of twists and turns because ancient Chinesetraditional thoughts of physiocracy and difficultly to manage,but it’s on behalf of theprogress of the times no ground for blame.