Analysis on the Land of Miao Villages during the Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods
Due to the lack of land registration,there is little direct historical evidence about the development of agricultural productivity and production relations in southeast Guizhou in the early Qing period.Based on the original records of household registering in the"Southern Expedition Diary",this paper managed to build up a household-property dataset for 169 Miao families.By calculating the land size per household,we analyse the land occupation and land operation of local households,which can provide a further understanding of the socio-economic circumstances in the early Qing period.We found that the average land per sector was 0.67 mu,while"large field"over 1 mu took up 19％of the entire registering land and the land ownership is quite dispersed.The land occupation of those self-employed farmers is nearly 3 mu per household on average,very few could reach 9 mu;the per capita grain rice possession is 2.2 dan.The overall land productivity is higher than the average level of Guizhou province,but the scale of agricultural production and per household land possessions are limited by the mountain topography.
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维普
