At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the policy of " No Inhibitory Annexation " (allowing land trading) was implemented. Existing opinions once believed that the Song Dynasty’s land Annexation was very serious, allowing land to be bought a...
At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the policy of " No Inhibitory Annexation " (allowing land trading) was implemented. Existing opinions once believed that the Song Dynasty’s land Annexation was very serious, allowing land to be bought and sold easily led to "the weak and the strong eating", which would lead to a large number of land Annexation. However, as the data on the proportion of land occupied during the Northern Song Dynasty was discovered, the number of "zhuhu(estate holding households)", that is, farmers who owned land, increased more than "kehu", that is, tenant farmers who did not have land. This information challenges the existing views. It is unreasonable to jump to conclusions about whether the land annexation phenomenon was very serious during the Song Dynasty. More evidence is needed to test it. Therefore, the recent school of land studies began to question the claims of the existing schools and gradually became the mainstream. However, the increase in the number of "zhuhu" also raises a new question: "Why is it different from the existing claims that the number of farmers who owned land in the Northern Song Dynasty increased?". In this regard, this paper analyzes from a new perspective of the "pro-market and anti-capital (ism)" tendency of the Northern Song Dynasty. The definition of "pro-market, anti-capital" tendency was investigated based on the research results of David Graeber and Jong chul Kim.