Researching On Shandong’s Famine And Political Of Famine In The Ming Dynasty

Natural disasters is very frequently during the Ming Dynasty. Mr. Deng Yunte once said,‘during the two hundred and seventy-six years in Ming Dynasty,and the disaster of the trouble, it is as much as one thousand eleven times, is never seen in past history.’ Shandong is one of the important province of Ming Dynasty, the state of famine only few scholars to cover.The natural disasters in Shandong during the Ming Dynasty to droughts, floods, locusts, mainly concentrated in the two seasons of summer and autumn, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty disaster occurred in the number, scope are than in the early days of the Ming Dynasty.In the early Ming Dynasty in Shandong milder weather, rulers recuperate, social stability and comparison, natural disasters occur less frequently, famine is not very serious; in the middle and late period of Ming Dynasty is due to the cold climate, natural disasters, increased significantly, and political corruption the peasant uprising broke out frequently, forest destruction is the large-scale destruction and land is excessive reclamation and aggravate the severity of the famine. The court and the local government is facing famine took a series of disaster prevention and relief measures and achieved a series of results, but these measures only temporarily alleviate the contradiction. From the Ming Dynasty Shandong economic and social disasters in Ji’nan can reflect the whole of Shandong in the state of famine. Famine not only affect the agricultural development and the famine years lead to price increases, people without food and population decline, refugee migration, social unrest and other social problems, famine contributed to local customs.