Ancient house is expensive, how much a house?

Ancient houses in times of war are their own cover, such as Shaanxi residents in order to avoid the war and can escape in time and reduce losses, they dig kilns.

Song Dynasty sets of residential prices from 500 to 10,000 kan, 500 kan to 1,000 kan is the middle-income people's homes, consistent with the value of the currency converted into yuan, is to the price of rice to convert, according to the price of rice in different periods, the Song Dynasty, consistent with the price of the money is about RMB 300-600 yuan According to the price of rice in different periods, the consistent money in Song Dynasty was about 300-600 Yuan in purchasing power, and 450 Yuan was taken as the consistent money. Then a complete set of residence in the Song Dynasty was sold at 225,000 yuan - 450,000 yuan, on the 5,000 kan belongs to the mansion, the most expensive is 10,000 kan. The most expensive was 10,000 kan. With the inflation in the Southern Song Dynasty, the kan was accounted for as 7 or 800 yuan, and 10,000 kan was equal to 7 or 8 million yuan. Officials in the Tang and Song dynasties were highly paid, and Song officials also had pensions. The governor's annual salary was 300 guan, and the annual income of senior officials (above the second rank) was around 8,000 to 10,000 guan. (Do not think that the Song Dynasty house is very expensive, the Song's economy has no say)

A family of ten, a year's consumption in the 100 Guan money, living very well, the Northern Song Dynasty, a consistent money can buy a pig, 600 coins can buy a stone of rice, a stone of rice 66 kilograms. The most expensive time in the Southern Song Dynasty was 2-3 kanji for a pig and two kanji for a stone of rice. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the assets of a medium-sized family were at least 1,000 kan, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, more than 3,000 kan.

Tang Xuanzong Dazhong ten years ago, Shen Duhe, a resident of Dunhuang, because of the urgency of waiting for money to use, sold his house. The house transfer contract is written: the house by the area of the price, the value of each foot of wheat two Shuo five liters, in addition to all the furniture and furnishings in the house with the house together with the transfer, the total *** value of wheat twenty-nine Shuo five buckets and six liters of more than. "Shuo" is an ancient unit of capacity, and "stone" common. Tang Dynasty period a stone about 90 pounds, according to the wheat price of 8 cents per catty converted down, then the price per square meter can be sold to 1555 yuan. At that time, the monthly income of the common people in Dunhuang is generally not more than two stone wheat, that is, below 300 yuan. From this we can see that it is impossible for the common people to afford to buy housing. It seems that the high price of housing has existed in ancient times, and the high price of housing nowadays is considered to be an inheritance of tradition.

But even if the common people can not afford to buy a house, when the official must have a decent place to live. In fact, this may not be the case, depending on when it is. Unearthed bronze inscriptions on the record of the Shang and Zhou era, the phenomenon of housing trading, leasing, that time there are housing transactions. However, because of the sparse population in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and the economy was dominated by the self-sufficiency model, housing transactions were not active before the Tang Dynasty, and housing prices were not outrageously high, and the imperial court was able to provide officials with free official residences. But after the economic development of the Tang Dynasty, the price of housing rose sharply accordingly. The government also gradually increased the number of officials, the government also in the high prices and more officials under the pressure, gradually unable to provide free official residence for the officials.

And in the Song Dynasty, those who could not afford to buy their own housing officials, are to manage the administration of government property rental. According to the Song History, when Liu Fu, a veteran general who repeatedly went on campaigns from the Great Ancestor and Emperor Taizong, died, his descendants were deprived of a private house in which they could live.

It seems that when the official does not mean that the whole family from now on do not worry about the housing problem. And the Tang and Song dynasties "Hugh official" the actual meaning, not only lost in a position to exercise power and the privilege of receiving a full salary, but also a major feature is that you can not continue to live in the official residence, these people have to Hugh official for the housing problem and running. For example, Du Yan, the chancellor of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, because of his honesty and integrity as an official, did not own private property, and even moved to the countryside after his retirement, there is no way back, but only a long time to live in the nanjing Cheyuan, until his death. Su Zhe retired to Xuzhou, see Li Fang uncle's new residence, enviously said: "I year seventy no residence, catty axe Deng Deng chaotic night and day ...... is not as good as the gentleman's home to get all the power, duh will be thirty rooms." So Su Zhe also built a house for himself, but although his wish was satisfied, his life savings have been spent, it is really marvelous that he is still doing house slaves at this age.

In fact, Su Zhe is not the only one. Song Dynasty period a person called Zhang Zhongwen wrote a book called "white otter marrow" book, this book mentioned "house slaves": "wives and offspring are all clothed barefoot ...... night is leased and live." The meaning is that the deposit and borrowed money are spent on the house, and now can only carry the debt scrimp and save, not only the wife and children do not have a good clothes, even the quilt are rented from others.

The Qing Dynasty also had house slaves. During the Guangxu period, those who could not afford to buy a house in Beijing built it themselves, and if they could not afford to build it, they borrowed money to build it, and then slowly paid it back later. There is a bamboo poem that reflects this situation: "The canopy is as wide as it is, I don't know how much money I am in debt?"

In fact, in ancient times, there are not only house slaves, there are also snails. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a university scholar named Tao Hub, who depicted the people's housing tension in this way: "The four neighboring bureaus are stuffed with half-empty shelves, stacked pallets of boxes and cages, and divided into beds for children." Meaning that the house is too small, can only add a layer in the middle of the ceiling and floor of the house, partitioned into a small duplex. The bedrooms were too small to fit the beds, so the boxes and cabinets were put together for the children to sleep in.

Loans to buy houses actually appeared only in the Qing Dynasty, and home mortgages, in the true sense of the word, didn't exist until the Republican era.

And when it came to buying a house, ancient people actually had to consider a lot of factors just like modern people.

The first is to see whether the price of the house is affordable. The Su brothers, for example, chose to buy their house far from the capital in a place where prices were relatively cheap. The Tang poet Bai Juyi's experience of buying a house was even more interesting, as his official position at the time was "school secretary", with a monthly salary of 1,600 dollars. At that time, Bai Juyi rented 4 thatched cottages in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, because of the distance from the place of work, and keep a horse to walk, in addition to hiring 2 nannies, so that the monthly expenses are 7500 money, the remaining 8500 money saved. But after 10 years of saving, he couldn't buy a house in Chang'an. Later Bai Juyi bought a mansion in Weinan County, Shaanxi Province, usually live in the unit, holidays back to the Weinan home. This is similar to today's metropolitan white-collar workers, who buy a house in the suburbs and rent a room in the city to work.

Then there is the question of whether the location and surroundings are satisfactory. Ancient people attached great importance to the living environment, and the most famous example reflecting this situation is Meng's mother's three relocations.

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