Characteristics of Ancient Handicraft Industry in China

Characteristics of ancient handicraft industry in China;

There are three main forms:

1. Government-run handicrafts: The division of labor is fine and the level is high, but the products are not put into the market and lack competitiveness, so that they are later declined and surpassed by private handicrafts.

2. Private handicrafts: products are put into the market to survive in the competition. Gradually expanding reproduction, the employment relationship appeared in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, that is, the bud of capitalist production.

3. cottage industry: men plow and women weave, the representative of self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy.