Studying On The Maritime Trade Between Southern Song Dynasty And Kim Dynasty In The Confrontational Period

Since the Southern Song Dynasty in1141with Kim signed the "Shaoxing Treaty”,during the Song and Kim confrontation officially ending the confrontation betweenthe Southern Song and Kim. In the ninety years, the relationship between Song andKim was generally peaceful for maritime trade between the two sides providing astable external environment. Confrontation between the two sides during the Song andKim maritime trade can be divided into the official maritime trade and folk smugglingtrade.This article will explore in three parts the maritime trade at Jiaoxi exchange marketbetween the Southern Song and Kim.The first part mainly discusses the official maritime trade. The official maritimetrade between the Southern Song and Kim carried out their political and economicinterests. Because of political influence and military factors, official maritime tradewere mostly unrelated to the national economy, and the North-South specialty andtrade development process were interrupted several times, which caused maritimetrade difficult to meet the coastal North-South economic communication needs, whilethe existence and development of folk maritime smuggling trade, helping South-Northeconomic exchanges, is a good supplement to the official maritime trade.The second part mainly focuses on the folk maritime smuggling trade. The Folkmaritime smuggling trade was to meet the needs of coastal North-South economic andcultural exchanges. It was an extremely simple economic rule that governed thebehavior of the economy arising under less restricted by the factors of politics andmilitary situation. Profit is the main characteristic of folk maritime smuggling trade,which pursued interests first, being the direct cause of continuing; folk smugglingmaritime trade continued for a long time, covering a wide area, mostly smuggledgoods supplies related to people’s livelihood, which meet the needs of coastalNorth-South economic and cultural exchanges largely. However, folk maritimesmuggling trade harmed the interests of the rulers of the two countries, so the twogovernments developed a stringent bans and penalties to combat maritime smugglingtrade, which to some extent curbed development of folk maritime smuggling trade.The third part analyses the relationship between official maritime trade and folkmaritime smuggling trade. The two were closely dependent economic behavior: theobjectively, the folk maritime smuggling trade was an important supplement to theofficial maritime trade; subjectively, the official maritime trade had inhibited thedevelopment of folk maritime smuggling trade, the two came together forming themaritime trade during the Song and Kim confrontation.The maritime trade between the Southern Song and Kim had a broad andfar-reaching impact: Official offshore trade to some extent contributed to the economyof the North-South exchanges, specialty products to meet the north and south needs, maintaining the situation stability and promoting the economic development of bothsides, which played a role that cannot be ignored. The folk maritime smuggling tradein the coastal areas largely met the needs of the North-South economic exchange andthe needs for production and people’s daily life, while at the same time, it promotedsocial development and progress, strengthening the coastal areas economic andcultural ties between North and South, so it played an extremely important role.