China's Household Registration System in Ming Dynasty

The household registration system of the Ming Dynasty divided the household registration into civilian households, military households, craftsmen households and other ethnic groups according to the division of occupations. Civilian families are engaged in agriculture and pay state agricultural taxes and corvees. The obligation of military households is to serve soldiers, and craftsmen must serve the imperial court, government and government-run handicrafts.

All kinds of household registration are hereditary occupations and cannot be changed. The children of farmers have been farming for generations, the children of craftsmen have been working for generations, and the children of military households have been in the army for generations. This specialized household system inherited the "multi-color household plan" of the Yuan Dynasty. The law of the Ming Dynasty stipulates that "farmers are not allowed to go out for a mile, and they go out at dusk, knowing each other's ways to work and rest." Anyone who leaves his hometown for a hundred miles must have a "road guide", which is actually a proof of leaving his hometown.

In order to prevent counterfeiting, the government compiled household stickers of this font size as attachments, kept them in the Ministry with semi-printed seals and mailed them to the people. The reporting method is that local grassroots organizations collect local accounts, and then report them to counties, counties, states and governments, and the government reports them to the chief secretary, who reports them to the headquarters for the record.

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The Background of Household Registration System in Ming Dynasty

1368, the Ming dynasty was founded, when the society had just experienced war, economic depression, rural desolation and displaced people. Coupled with the serious loss of household registration books and land registration books, the household registration has changed greatly, resulting in the inability of government taxes and corvees to be collected.

In order to restore economic development, stabilize social order and ensure national service as soon as possible, it is necessary to count national household registration as soon as possible. So Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to check the national household registration, rectify the household registration, and strengthen the management of tax service.

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