A Study Of Baoding House Lease In Qing Dynasty

One measure of people’s happiness in life in China is living and working in peace and contentment.From ancient times to the present,people’s desire for housing has never diminished.At that time,the property contract was the most effective proof to protect the property rights and interests,but now it has become an important information for us to study the legal,economic and social aspects of Chinese traditional society.The value of the deed should be paid attention to by the institute of social and economic history,but unfortunately,although many books on the study of contract documents have emerged in recent years,most of them are related to the deed,and the study of the deed is rare.The research direction of the existing works is mostly from the perspective of legal history and social history,in order to reveal and show the real estate law and social phenomenon at that time,mainly in the study of Beijing,Nanjing and other big cities in the region,the research results of the deed of housing in Hebei were rare,and the systematic study of the data of the deed of housing in the small and medium-sized cities at that time was lacking.From the spring and autumn warring States period to the qing dynasty,the house deed system has undergone many changes,among which the song dynasty is the node,the private deed used by the people before this time is no longer legal,the house deed has a "red and white deed ",the government has also carried out a series of changes around the official deed,such as the regular payment of deed tax and the emergence of the end of the deed.These changes formed in the Qing dynasty custom,perfect mature,and then in the late Qing dynasty to continue to the direction of the development of modern property deed system,this process is long and slow,the traditional property deed system in China showed its strong vitality and stability.By arranging and studying the format,content and property embodied in the deed of residence in Qing dynasty value,can show the social style and people’s living standard of Baoding area in Qing dynasty.Due to its special geographical position,the political status of Baoding in Qing dynasty is constantly changing,which makesthe house price of Baoding fluctuate to a certain extent at that time,but with the development of social economy,the house price of Baoding still shows an upward trend in the fluctuation,which accords with the law of social and economic development.But the rich are sitting on thousands of facades,with businesses and houses,while the poor have dozens of earthy houses,and in a few cases the family is barely able to hide,and the gap between the rich and the poor warns us.Housing,Clothing,Food and Transportation The contents recorded in the deed not only reflect the change of house price,which is related to people’s daily livelihood,but also reflect the social and economic history of the political and economic changes of the Qing dynasty in a deeper level.The proliferation of private deeds to private deeds,the change of official authorized personnel’s status in the process of the establishment of the contract,the collapse of the flag house system,the sharp fluctuation of the exchange price of money and money,the reform of deed tax,and so on,all reflect the process of political decline and economic collapse of the strong Qing dynasty.The various phenomena reflected in this batch of Qing dynasty Baoding housing deeds show us all aspects of social production and life in Baoding area from Yongzheng to Guangxu in Qing dynasty,and echo the political and economic development of Baoding at that time,thus reflecting the economic development and the change of political ecology in Baoding area.