What are the taxes in ancient China?

China is an ancient agricultural country, the history of China's tax is actually relatively single, the main ancient China has four different kinds of taxes and fees:

First, based on the number of people to be levied by the head of the head of the tax, that is, the history of the more famous Ding tax.

The second is a property tax based on households, which is generally charged on a household basis, and so is also known as a do-over.

Third, the main tax in ancient China was the land tax based on the acres of land, which was one of the main taxes levied in China, and is often referred to as the so-called field rent by the Chinese.

Fourth, China's ancient regulations adult men (that is, men between the ages of fifteen and sixty), they have to serve corvée and military service, in addition to bear some other names of local other exorbitant taxes.

China's ancient market, the official is generally known as the city alone. The city is a product of the development of the commodity economy, which has a history of several thousand years in China. The city itself in the Shang Dynasty has been produced and development, merchants trade began to appear in the Shang Dynasty, but we need to pay attention to is the Shang Dynasty handicrafts and commerce are government-run, so there is no market tax at that time this case, so the main form of performance is the following process:

1) the development of history to the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, due to the commodity economy appeared to be a substantial development in the government-run commerce and industry, the birth of a market tax is the first time. The government-run industry and commerce in the private handicrafts and commerce, mainly in the family side business, the private market trade gradually replaced the government's business, so the earliest market tax in the history of China has begun.

②Vehicles and boats because of private ownership of more and more, the tax began to change in the Qin Dynasty, the early years of the Han Dynasty began to formally incorporated into the national tax, when the Han Jingdi period, the tax on vehicles and boats have clear provisions, which is a prototype and the beginning of China's vehicle and boat tax.

3 By the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu Yuan Guang six years, that is, 129 BC, the Han government began to formally promulgate the provisions of the tax on vehicles and ships, then the government's name is counting the commercial vehicles, where it is counted as the basic unit of taxation, in other words, one of the counting is the one hundred and twenty money, which is the object of the levy is still only limited to the loaded merchant ships and merchant vehicles.

4The end of the Western Han Dynasty, the government of the Western Han Dynasty began to slowly incorporate non-commercial vehicles and ships into the scope of taxation, and made specific decrees and regulations, the contents of which were mainly: non-commercial vehicles were taxed one count per vehicle, and the tax on commercial vehicles was doubled, which gradually turned the tax on vehicles and ships into a formal tax.

⑤The Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty tax basically did not change much, after the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are also used in this type of tax for the model, only in the form of a slightly different, but the scope of the tax has not changed, so it can be ignored in these periods.

China's ancient tax development, basically these forms, as for the ancient Chinese tax reform, in fact, in any case can not be counted on what is great, because these reforms are basically in the previous generation on the basis of, to be detailed just. So China's tax is very fixed, is the above classification, until modern China began to change!