When did the population increase sharply in Qing Dynasty?

The population explosion in Qing dynasty is probably a lie.

How did the lie of population explosion in Qing Dynasty come from? According to Ding Kou Huang Shu in the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty, people think that the population in the early Qing Dynasty was about 70 million-this is a big joke in itself.

Many Chinese and foreign population experts have verified that the population record of the Ming Dynasty is a muddled account.

First, let alone whether the ancient census system was perfect, but how the population was recorded in the "Yellow Book" of the Ming Dynasty. Refugees and tenants could not count, "barbarians" (ethnic minorities) were not registered, women, the elderly and the disabled were not registered, and even men under 10 might see their mood. Imagine, how many people are different from the actual statistics? These can be seen in the official documents of Hongwu period. Why are you doing this? The "Yellow Book" of the Ming Dynasty was used as the basis for tax collection, and the people who could not receive the tax, the court and local officials had no intention to register.

Secondly, since the "Yellow Book" is the basis for paying taxes to the court at the local level, local officials at the first level should try to say less about themselves on the ground. Why talk less? If you give less to the court, you can leave much in the local area. This kind of situation is very common, and many officials in the Ming Dynasty spoke out in the memorial. Of course, many ordinary people evaded the census in Dingkou to avoid taxes, and the population of many remote rural areas was not recorded by the court at all.

You see how badly the Dingkou Yellow Book of the Ming Dynasty was faked: the official population data at the beginning of Yongle was 66.6 million, and after Yongle 10, the official population data became 50 million! Exaggeration? In the ten years of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty enjoyed a strong national strength and harmonious political affairs, and there was no great disaster. Why did the national population suddenly decrease 10 in160,000, instead of increasing? It can be seen that Mingting's population data is purely funny! No reference value!

Second, the actual situation should be like this! The population inherited in the early Ming Dynasty at least exceeded 65.438+0.2 billion; The peak population of the Ming Dynasty was at least more than 200 million, while the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty was at least1.500 million.

That is to say, after the war in the late Ming Dynasty, the population in the early Qing Dynasty should be 65.438+0.2 billion to 65.438+0.5 billion, but in the Qing Dynasty Daoguang reached 380 million. In the four years of Tongzhi, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Opium War, the population was reduced to 3,654.38+0.8 million.

From this point of view, during the 200 years from the establishment of the Qing Dynasty to A.D. 1870, the population increased less than three times, and only three times in 200 years. Is it so much? You know, during the same period, the population growth rate of major countries in the world was about five times. There was no population explosion in Qing Dynasty!

The population growth in the Qing Dynasty was actually the foreshadowing of the Ming Dynasty. The population of Song Dynasty has exceeded 100 million, and it will be stable at 100 million in Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the introduction of early-maturing rice, high-yield crops such as potatoes and corn in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the development of social division of labor in the embryonic stage of capitalism ... all laid the foundation for population growth. Unfortunately, before the Ming Dynasty could enjoy these things, it encountered the Little Ice Age, natural and man-made disasters, and fell dead!

The rulers of the Qing dynasty encouraged childbearing, and the household registration management was stricter, and they did not discriminate against ethnic minorities, women, children and the disabled. The hidden black households are much less than those in the Ming Dynasty. It happened that Yongzheng shouted "raising the people without increasing taxes", and taxes were decoupled from population. Population growth became the political achievements of local officials, giving people the feeling of rapid population growth in Qing Dynasty.

In fact, in the first hundred years of the Qing Dynasty, the increase in population statistics mostly included ethnic minorities and former black households. The population growth in the late Qing Dynasty was only a natural growth rate under a large base.

Stop boasting about the population explosion in Qing Dynasty. If you don't understand, look at China Population Research 1368- 1953 and China Population Development History.