What birth encouragement policies were there in the early Tang Dynasty?

The Tang Dynasty was a very prosperous dynasty in history, but after the war at the end of Sui Dynasty, the population at that time dropped sharply. However, through the positive measures taken by the emperor in the early Tang Dynasty, the population of the Tang Dynasty soared from 25 million to 80 million in less than a hundred years. What magic tricks did you use?

In this process, the most inseparable thing is a series of incentive measures taken by the rulers of the Tang Dynasty to give birth to the population. Even in the case of exaggerated historical data, the Tang Dynasty achieved a good result of doubling the population in just a hundred years.

In the study of historical materials, it is found that this is also inseparable from the positive factors conducive to population development inside and outside the Tang Dynasty at that time. The material production of various countries came to Korea, which promoted commercial development and even population development, resulting in the so-called demographic dividend at that time. And what can we learn from the encouragement policy when the fertility rate is negative in the early Tang Dynasty?

1. In the early Tang Dynasty, a series of policies were adopted to encourage the population to have children.

(1) Reduce the childbearing age and encourage population development.

In the early Tang dynasty, in order to encourage the population to have children. Therefore, Li Shimin Taizong promulgated many measures to realize the rapid recovery of population. Among these measures, the most noteworthy is that the age of marriage has decreased like all dynasties.

Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, determined the marriage age at that time as 15 years old through legal procedures, which made the birth tide appear again. Under the influence of the war at the end of Sui Dynasty, a large number of laborers died in the war, which made lowering the age the best choice in reality.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the female population accounted for a relatively large proportion of the total social population. This also proves from the side that the family childbearing age is very necessary.

Li Shimin has also taken a series of measures to lower the age of marriage. Later, he also stipulated that although lowering the age of marriage is allowed by law, officials can't force people who have reached the age to get married, but only through policy guidance.

If you violate it, you will even be sentenced to death. On this basis, Li Shimin also released a large number of maids who had reached the age, which gave these maids who had been imprisoned in the inner court of the deep palace a chance to start a family.

Secondly, the female prisoners who were sentenced for crimes were exiled or sent directly to the frontier and handed over to the soldiers who fought. To some extent, this has reduced the incidence of forced marriage of school-age women, but at the same time, it has also played a positive role in promoting the development of the national population.

If lowering the marriage age of the population is the first step to develop fertility independently, then encouraging hundreds of people to give birth actively through interest induction is an important part of this project.

(2) The state gives certain birth rewards to encourage people to have children.

In order to encourage the population to have more children, the Tang Dynasty gave some rewards to families with more children. In the legal provisions promulgated, the rulers of the dynasty gave different rewards according to the number of their children, which actively promoted the development of the population at that time.

In the population development in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the financial expenditure for restoring the population accounted for a large part of the imperial expenditure at that time. At that time, some lazy people also joined this trend in an attempt to solve their own survival problems in this way.

In addition, the rulers of the Tang dynasty also reduced the number of men entering the palace, which provided a certain guarantee for the recovery of productive forces. Through the inducement of money, the population of the Tang Dynasty finally grew rapidly.

In addition to giving children material rewards, the government will also praise those who have contributed. This is undoubtedly a very happy thing for the people of the Tang Dynasty who pursue glory. Therefore, in the early Tang Dynasty, families similar to birth pacesetters were everywhere.

Naturally, it has greatly promoted the population growth. Under the impetus of the population incentive policy in the early Tang Dynasty, encouraging the development of fertility became an important material guarantee. However, even so, due to the backwardness of medical conditions, children often die young and people die of illness.

(3) The state funded the construction of relevant relief agencies, which reduced the mortality rate.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, an important factor affecting the growth of population factors was that more people died of diseases. At that time, the most serious disease was the plague, because the war at the end of Sui Dynasty caused a large number of deaths, and in some areas, because of backward conditions, the plague often caused large-scale population deaths.

Therefore, this requires the state to vigorously promote relevant relief agencies to help backward areas control diseases. At the same time, due to the backward medical conditions in ancient times, it is easy for people to die because of some minor problems. These diseases, large and small, became an important obstacle to the population development in the early Tang Dynasty. To this end, the Tang government allocated special funds to set up relevant relief agencies to provide medical assistance to the poor.

While reducing the mortality rate, these relief agencies also help abandoned babies. Through the establishment of relevant relief organizations for women and children, the chances of healthy growth of children in the Tang Dynasty have been greatly improved. Under the comprehensive effect of this addition and subtraction, the population of the Tang Dynasty was greatly increased through the establishment of relevant relief organizations.

But all this is based on the material richness brought by the development of productive forces, and the prosperous political structure of the Tang Dynasty provided important conditions for trade with the world. At the same time, some foreign businessmen settled in the Tang Dynasty, which also increased the population.

2. The development of business and the increase of foreign population have brought about the increase of population.

(1) Various countries come to Korea to promote commercial production, which can meet the needs of more people.

During the Tang Dynasty, political stability and rulers' encouragement of trade promoted the prosperity of all countries that came to Korea. These foreign businessmen brought some new species, especially some high-yield crops at that time, which increased the total agricultural output in the Tang Dynasty and provided materials for population growth.

The sight of countries coming to Korea promoted the prosperity of commerce, made the Tang Dynasty the center of the world economy at that time, and made the world silver flow into the Tang Dynasty continuously.

With the support of these funds, the commerce in the Tang Dynasty further prospered, providing more employment opportunities for people, thus generating more labor demand. Therefore, those workers who grew up by the government's preferential treatment to encourage childbearing have a suitable place to go.

At the same time, these people who joined the agricultural production produced more agricultural and sideline products for the later population development. These agricultural and sideline products are not only for commercial use, but also for internal digestion by the people.

During the Tang Dynasty, a large number of high-yield crops were planted. However, due to the development of population, the population of the country was rising at that time. Therefore, the rulers of the Tang Dynasty ordered large-scale reclamation and adopted the system of land equalization, so that more people could acquire land.

In agricultural production, fertile wasteland for large-scale cultivation has been added. By planting high-yield crops, agricultural production has caught up with the standards of the Sui Dynasty in the early years of the Tang Dynasty.

Through a large number of reclamation, the demand for labor force has increased, and the fertility requirements of the population have been further improved. This scale of reclamation has produced more food, which can meet the needs of the rising population in the Tang Dynasty.

This is precisely the new changes brought by the trade process of merchants in various countries in the Tang Dynasty, and it is precisely because of the promotion and planting of new varieties of crops with greater output that the population of the Tang Dynasty has made new development. Not only that, these businessmen who came to trade in the Tang Dynasty finally chose to settle in the Tang Dynasty, which also promoted the increase of the population in the Tang Dynasty.

(2) A large number of immigrants settled in China, which brought about population growth.

During the Tang Dynasty, Arabs and Romans came to the Tang Dynasty for trade through Wan Li, not far from the Silk Road. They brought their own products with domestic characteristics to the Tang Dynasty and exchanged porcelain, silk and so on. Use them to make high profits.

But because the distance is too far, a round-trip trade is almost calculated in years. Moreover, the quantity of these goods is relatively large, so some foreign businessmen settled down in Datang City and started the business of middlemen.

Not only that, at that time, the policies of the Tang Dynasty were extremely favorable to foreign businessmen, and they were also rewarded for their commercial contributions. Therefore, according to historical records, the floating population in Chang 'an accounts for 10%.

However, in the study of the excessive population growth in the Tang Dynasty by later historians, it was found that even the then Tang government had many policies to encourage the birth of the population, and foreigners settled in China. However, the population has not soared to 80 million. Through the study of specific historical materials, it is found that this figure is somewhat exaggerated.

3. The historical data are distorted, and the population growth in the Tang Dynasty did not skyrocket.

In the historical records of the Tang Dynasty, from the Wude period to Tianbao 14. At that time, the population of the Tang Dynasty grew from 1 1 10,000 to more than 50 million later. There is still a certain gap between this and the more than 80 million recorded in later generations.

However, it is undeniable that in the process of population development, many measures taken by the Tang government to encourage fertility have played an extremely important role. In less than a hundred years in the Tang Dynasty, the population doubled. Historical Records is suspected of exaggeration, which makes the data wrong. However, it is not difficult to see that in a short period of 100 years, the population development in the Tang Dynasty can not be ignored.

Conclusion:

In order to resume production, the rulers in the early Tang Dynasty made an important decision to encourage people to have children. At the same time, it also made the population development at that time enter a peak. It must be said that some encouragement policies in the Tang Dynasty have great reference significance for today's negative birth development model.

As a vast China, the birth of the population has always been an extremely important issue, and the development of this aspect might as well learn from the policies of the Tang Dynasty.