A Study On Tenants Problem In The Song Dynasty

Tea tree planting has a long history in China, and tea from Shennong tasted grass bouquet began to be used. the tea economy began to flourish in the tang dynasty, song dynasty’s further development,make it was becoming a real independence and national culture or career. While tea growers or tea production units: "tenants", in the tang dynasty only really appeared in the history books. With the expansion of tea tree planting area in the tang and song dynasties, tenants increase in the song dynasty.Tea garden as the most basic production unit, the name was diversiform, thus made the variety of tenants name: husbandmen, tea plantations households, the gardener, tea farmers appellation. According to the production of tea tea affects household livelihoods,Tenants can be divided into concurrently vinedressers and professional tenants; Due to the different management tea garden tea garden Lord identity, tea garden can be divided into State-owned tea garden,Bureaucratic scholar-bureaucrat possession of tea garden,Taoist temples’ tea garden, and the possession of people’s tea garden. the possession of people’s tea garden, in which the bulls made tea SanWuWanJin, junior YiErBaiJin, it made the strength difference of the people and the most complicated of people management.On the basis of the production of the people’s tea garden, analyzes the production mode of operation of this kind of tea garden, divided into tenants direct management and tenants to hire and tenancy management. From the mode of operation,it is not hard to see tea garden mode of production of the high level of diversity and the development of commodity economy. Tenants of tea garden’s product and operat were restrained by their government and management. With the tea method of continuous changing, the government of the constraint degree of the tenants were also changing, but from the private tea method, pseudo tea method etc, we can see that the government’s regulations to tenants was relatively strict, at the same time the vinedressers bore heavy taxes,which caused that vinedressers produced resistance behavior to the government.From split to complete the unification of Northern Song dynasty, between 1025 and song removal, change of North Song dynasty, Government policy due to the country’s economic, political, military, development needs and changing, the tea policy changes more prominent.Trades together the law, the tea monopoly law, pastes efflux, junction Yin laws, tea Ma Fa and so on, but under the tea tax law the vinedressers presents two kind of characteristics actually, whether can carry on the direct exchange with the merchant.The tea monopoly law and under the tea horse law the vinedressersmust sell to completely the tea the tea plantation which the government authorities set, but trades together the law, pastes the efflux, the junction directs the principle is the vinedressers may carry on the tea transaction in where with the merchant.According to the different geographical and chronological, the tenants about the tea law is described, regional and features can be seen quite obvious, trend of development of diversity to unity.