The Formation of Manchu Folk Land Contract from Genealogy
Manchu folk land contract has a development and formation process in Manchu history.From the Nvzhen period before the time of the Manchu entering the Shanhai Pass,to the time of Nurhachi's mili-tary mutiny,they carried out the policy of"planning and granting fields",public land and eight-flag cam-paigns,not taking farming as a way of livelihood,so there was no land text contract those days.After enter-ing the Shanhai Pass,the Manchu nationality obtained the flag land as private property,and the family divi-sion became the first land contract of Manchu folk.Until the late Qing Dynasty,the text contract of Man-chu folk land was formed,with a kind of unregistered contract—"white contract"as the mainstream form.This paper takes a different academic perspective from the previous research on Manchu banner land.Based on Manchu genealogy,this paper analyzes the formation process of Manchu folk land contract from the process of Manchu family multiplication and branch.