The population of Song Dynasty

In the fifth year of Taiping (980), there were 64 1.85 million households in China, with about 3,265,438+10,000 people. If you add the number of households that are not included in the statistics of major customers, there were 6.87 million households in that year, nearly 3,765,438+10,000 people. In Song Huizong, there were 20,882,258 households with 46,734,784 people in four years (110). According to scholars' research, only adult males engaged in voluntary labor were counted in the household registration in Song Dynasty, so the actual population reached112.75 million, and it was pointed out that the population peak in Northern Song Dynasty appeared on the eve of Jingkang Rebellion.

During the Song and Jin Dynasties, due to the war, the population dropped sharply. Before the Jingkang Rebellion, there were about13.6 million households in the sixth year of Xuanhe in the South (1 124), and about10.86 million households in Shaoxing, Song Gaozong in the Southern Song Dynasty (1/35). In the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, population growth was slow due to "more people and less land", which reached its peak in Jiading, Song Ningzong in the 16th year (1223). According to official statistics, there are 1267080 1 households, with 28320085 households. Scholars believe that there should be1550,000 households and 80.6 million people in that year.

After the disaster of Jingkang, a large number of Central Plains people migrated to the south in China. This southward movement has two climaxes. The first climax was from "the difficulty of Jingkang" to "the discussion of reconciliation", and the second climax was during the invasion of Yan Hongliang, the gold Lord, which led to a large increase in the population in the south. If we take the thirty-second year of Shaoxing (1 162) and the first year of Chongning (1 102),

From the perspective of population distribution, in the five years of Taiping and Xingguo (980), the south accounted for 56.9% of the total population, and the north accounted for 43. 1%, which was the result of the long-term war in the north in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and the relatively peaceful development of the south. However, the unification of the Song Dynasty did not lead to an increase in the proportion of the northern population to the national population, while the southern region developed for a hundred years in the first year of Yuanfeng (1078). In the north, it dropped to 37.4%. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and the first year of Chongning (1 102), the proportion of north and south was 64. 1% and 35.9% respectively.