Quantitative Study of Domestic Animal Husbandry in Central Plains during the High Tang
The scale of domestic animal husbandry is an important index to measure the development level of regional animal husbandry,and one of its main influencing factors is production cost.Taking the Central Plains of the High Tang as an example,under the dominance of planting economy,the productive cost was mainly the feed cost.According to the feed usage in the Tang Dynasty,the number of livestock that individual farmers could raise was extremely limited after deducting the expenditure required by peasant families to maintain their livelihood.One of the main reasons why livestock breeding cannot get rid of farming and achieve large-scale production is that there is a large gap in income between the two production methods.Families preferred farming,which was more profitable,and domestic animal husbandry became a household sideline production and gradually marginalized.
High TangCentral PlainsDomestic Animal HusbandryQuantitative Historistics