2. Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties: Began to move south. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, both the North and South economies made great progress. The land resources in Jiangnan area have been further developed and become an important grain producing area. However, after the Anshi Rebellion, the northern province was divided into provinces, and the northern economy was seriously damaged again. By the late Tang dynasty, there had been a phenomenon that "the gifts were mostly in Jianghuai".
China's economic center of gravity began to move south. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, there were frequent wars in the north and less wars in the south, which were relatively stable. Throughout the Five Dynasties, China's economic center of gravity moved to the south, and the south became a developed region with a population exceeding that of the north.
3. Song Dynasty: Finally finished. During the Song Dynasty, there were frequent wars in the north. After the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song regime settled in the southeast corner, further developing the southern economy. At that time, there was a proverb in Taihu Lake basin, "Su Lake is ripe, and the world is full", which indicated that the agricultural production in the south of the Yangtze River had surpassed that in the north, completely replacing the position of the economic center in the north.
In the Yuan Dynasty, in order to solve the problem of "transporting grain from the south to the north", water transportation was vigorously set up and unprecedented maritime transportation was opened up, which was enough to show the importance of the southern economy. It can be seen that the Southern Song Dynasty was the last stage of China's ancient economic center moving southward. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the position of the southern economic center was consolidated and developed.
Extended data
From the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, the economic center of gravity moved southward continuously and was finally completed because:
1, natural factors
The change of climatic conditions in Song Dynasty made the south more suitable for agricultural development. At the same time, due to the early economic development, serious soil erosion, human activities seriously damaged the natural environment, environmental degradation, affecting agricultural production. However, the economic development in the south since the Three Kingdoms laid a certain foundation for economic development and maintained a good natural environment, thus providing favorable natural conditions for economic development in the south.
2. Political factors, as follows:
(1) Most of the territory ruled by the Song Dynasty was in the south, and the political center of the Southern Song Dynasty moved south, which promoted the continued development of the southern economy to some extent.
(2) Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, there have been frequent wars in the north and relative stability in the south, which provided a relatively stable social environment for economic development;
(3) During the Song Dynasty, the struggle of the Central Plains people against the plundering of the northern minority nobles prevented the northern minority nobles from going south and saved the south from war; Fourth, the rulers attach importance to economic development and adopt some policies that are conducive to economic development, thus promoting the economic development of the South.
3. Economic factors
There are still many wars in the north, but the social order in the south is relatively stable, and a large number of people from the north move south, which provides a large number of labor for the economic development in the south, so that the natural resources in the south can continue to be developed and utilized, and the social and economic order can develop, thus eventually surpassing the north and the national economic center of gravity moves south.
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