The Primary Exploration of the Human-Land Relationships in Dong Xiang County of Sichuan in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

Meng Wang

doi:10.4236/ahs.2019.82008

Abstract

There are many causes for white lotus rebellion occurred in Dong Xiang county in Sichuan province in the mid-Qing Dynasty. For example, more people and less land, low average yield and lack of effective measures to withstand natural disasters. Though the royal government exempted the taxes and duties many times, the lower class still lived with hardship. The contradictions between the officials and the people were intensified by the greedy local officials’ blackmail, and as a result, the rebellion leaded by Wang San-Huai broke out.

Highlights

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a series of wars broke out in Sichuan province, followed by natural disasters and pestilence
There are many causes for white lotus rebellion occurred in Dong Xiang county in Sichuan province in the mid-Qing Dynasty
In the late Ming and early Qing, Sichuan suffered a variety of disasters, such as war, plague, tiger suffering and so on, which made a dramatic reduction in population

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Introduction

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a series of wars broke out in Sichuan province, followed by natural disasters and pestilence. In the late Ming and early Qing, Sichuan suffered a variety of disasters, such as war, plague, tiger suffering and so on, which made a dramatic reduction in population. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the rapid decline in population and dramas caused by the long-term war in Sichuan were true, and created a special situation of a large population and a few land. The man-land relationship has become increasingly acute, which led to a series of social contradictions This became an important inducement for the White Lotus Society broke out in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Five Provinces during the period of Qian Long and Jia Qing

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