By Bozhong Li
The writer makes a thorough research of alterations in key components of creation and in styles of enlargement in agricultural creation in China's Yangzi delta throughout the 3 centuries ahead of 1850, leading to a rise in either land and hard work productiveness.
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Because this estimate is even lower than the provincial figures for 1937 Jiangsu and 1949 Zhejiang, it is unlikely to be higher than what the double cropping indices were in the 1920s and 1930s, though it does not accord with some results of 1920s and 1930s surveys. Qing sources from which to create a multi-cropping index do not exist, but other evidence suggests that mid-Qing levels of mUlti-cropping might be much higher than those of the 1920s and 1930s in Jiangnan. Chen Hengli has found major differences between the Jiaxing-Huzhou agricultural economy of the 1921-49 period and the period before the mid-Qing, in particular the post-1856 sharp decline of winter crops (wheat, beans and rapeseed).
16 This figure is only 2 per cent smaller than the 1820s figure and much bigger than the 1930s figure. 17 But all the figures after 1580-83 are not from actualland measurements and cannot be taken as evidence of real declines or increases in cultivated area. Of course there were changes in the actual amounts of cultivated land but these were unlikely to have been very large. Since almost all the reclaimable land had been opened up by the late fifteenth century (Chen Heng1i, 1963: 264; Hamashima, 1989; Li Labour, Land and Climate 27 Bozhong, 1997b), it is difficult to think that there was any large amount of new land still available to bring under cultivation between the late fifteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries.
The first job is overturning the soil (it was called jan, ken, chu or zhu in Ming-Qing Jiangnan literature, meaning 'turning up the soil' or 'chopping the soil'). The next job is levelling the fields (called dao, xue, pi, luobie or loucou, meaning 'breaking up and smoothing out clods in the field'). Draft animal labour uses a plough and harrow to plough (Ii) first and then harrow (ba) the fields next. For transplanting, the seedlings are first raised on the seed-bed and then shifted into the fields.