In the history of China, the economic center of gravity has shifted several times.

In the history of China, the economic center of gravity has shifted three times.

The first time was from north to south during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and this trend was more obvious during the Anshi Rebellion. The second time was the transfer from Jianghuai to Hunan and Hubei in Ming Dynasty. The third time was the Qing Dynasty, which moved from the two lakes to Guangdong and Guangxi, and finally formed a situation in which the southeast coast was developed and the northwest inland was backward.

Ancient social economy mainly refers to the small-scale peasant economy based on agriculture. China is a big agricultural country with a long history. The ancient economic center of gravity was in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. With the development of history, it experienced a transfer process from north to south, and later moved to the south of the Yangtze River.

This regional change had a far-reaching impact on the ancient economic structure of China. In this complicated and long transfer process, the turning point was in the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty.

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The shift of the economic center of gravity to the south has led to the corresponding changes in talent education, the most obvious of which is the change of the number one scholar. From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the geographical distribution of the top scholar's birthplace has an obvious trend of gradual progress from north to south. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were 68 northern champions, accounting for 665,438+0% of the national total, and the northern champions had obvious advantages.

The geographical distribution of the three generations of top scholars in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties has changed obviously compared with the previous generation. During this period, there were 194 top scholars in China, of which only 26 were from the north, accounting for 13.4% of the national total. Southern champion 168, accounting for 86.6%, and the local champion in the south has formed an absolute advantage in amount.

The southward shift of economic center of gravity has better integrated all ethnic groups in China, and the southward shift of northerners has enabled nomadic people and Han people to have deeper and wider exchanges and cooperation, which has promoted the development of ethnic diversity and unity.