Abstract
The Yuan Dynasty was the real beginning of Shanghai, which was also one of the important hub areas of cotton planting and cotton textile spreading from the frontier to the inland in ancient China, but its specific situation and historical position were rarely studied. On the basis of carding the cotton textile technology, cotton output and the development of cotton commodity economy in this period, this paper reveals that the cotton textile industry in Shanghai played an important role in improving people's clothing and raw materials, improving local people's material living standards and promoting the economic development of Jiangnan areas and even the whole country in the Yuan Dynasty. It also laid a good foundation for the later development of Shanghai China's great historical development process, especially in economic development, has an indelible and non-negligible historical position.
Highlights
According to research, the administrative area of Shanghai has been basically formed since 1292, including Songjiang prefecture, Jiading, Chongming, Huating and Shanghai counties
Li Yu, a poet at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, said, "the iron axis is horizontal in the orifices, vertebra uses two ends to look at the stars turning, and the snowflakes floating in disorder"
This poem describes the situation of using vertebra to hit the bow and play cotton, which shows that the use of vertebra can further improve the efficiency of playing cotton, which is on the basis of innovation of slingshot invented by Huang Daopo
Summary
The administrative area of Shanghai has been basically formed since 1292, including Songjiang prefecture, Jiading, Chongming, Huating and Shanghai counties. The area of "annual arable land" in this area was about 4.915 million mu, of which the annual average planting area of cotton was about 2.4575 million mu, and the varieties of cotton planted were introduced by the first way mentioned above Originally, the perennial woody plant evolved into an annual herbaceous Asian cotton species. The annual output of cotton is about 70 million kilograms to 103.21 million kilograms In this context, the development and historical status of cotton textile industry in Shanghai in the Yuan Dynasty were rarely studied, which is worth pondering. 2. Technology of Cotton Textile and Annual Cotton Production in Shanghai Area in Yuan Dynasty
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