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不久前,我在杭州的一次会议上与一位著名的农学史专家同组讨论。他发言中提到明朝仅五六千万人口,引起了我的注意,就在休息时与他交谈。我告诉他,根据我的研究,明代人口最高已达2亿,并不是户籍上的五六千万。他听后说:“怪不得我们一直很难解释清朝农业的进步,如果是从明朝的2亿人口增加到4亿多,就可以与农业生产的发展适应了。” 在翻阅一位青年学者有关近代人口的专著时,我也发现他把明朝的最高人口数定为五六千万,并且从这一基础来论述清朝和近代人口的发展变化。实际上,经常阅读或研究中国古籍的人,
Not long ago, I was in the same group in Hangzhou for discussion with a famous agronomist. He mentioned in his speech only fifty or sixty million people Ming Dynasty, caught my attention, just talk to him at rest. I told him that according to my research, the population of the Ming Dynasty reached a maximum of 200 million people, not fifty-six million of household registrations. He later said: “It is no wonder that we have been very hard to explain the progress of agriculture in the Qing dynasty. If it increased from 200 million in the Ming Dynasty to more than 400 million, it could be adapted to the development of agricultural production.” " When the scholar's monograph on the modern population, I also found that he set the maximum population of the Ming Dynasty to fifty-six million, and on this basis to discuss the development of the Qing dynasty and modern population changes. In fact, those who regularly read or study Chinese ancient books,