An Analysis Of Relief Loan Institution In Song Dynasty

The relief loan is one of the main measures that relief disaster in traditional society.In Song Dynasty The system has undergone great changes.From the no-system early period of the founding of the state to the early changping warehouse gradually took on the responsibility for the loan.The vacillation state of the Public granary is also an important embodiment of the evolution of the system.Young Crops Law is of great significance to the attempt to regularize the loan.The recovery of the system in the time that the government moving to the south and the appearance of the Civil Storehouse System is the certain way of the development of relief loan system.The system has the characteristics of not taking interest as the purpose,semi-credit and semi-relief,production support and physical object.The appearance of the system and the move of the executant from government to gentries can show the country’s aspire for the lower system cost and a more efficient system.At the same time,relief loan system as part of relief measures,and other complementary measures,the implementation of the frequency and intensity of relief loan can also reflect the situation at that time and power ups and downs which can be shown according to the investment that the Southern Song government has thrown to.When being powerful,the government are more likely to take relief loanProblems such as corruption also appeared in the operation of the Relief loans whose resource is the atypism between central and local interests.There are also some problems sucn as failing in return,small audience which caused by storage itself.But overall,relief loan system change is a process of development of efficiency,the rescue of agricultural credit in Song Dynasty,guarantees the poor life safety,reduces the rural mortality,and maintains the continuous reproduction of agriculture.