Wuhu Chaohua is a famous historical event in Chinese history, so how much has it reduced China's population? Flip through the historical materials and let the editor analyze it for you.
According to the view of the "History of the Development of Chinese", there 16163860 was a large number of hidden populations in the Western Jin Dynasty, and although the population was added to the population, although tun households and military households were added to the population, the gap with the actual population was still quite large.
This point, I think is still more in line with the actual situation, and Chinese Koushi finally gave an estimate: 35 million, that is, the population of the Western Jin Dynasty in the Yuankang decade, the highest population before the rebellion of the kings, I personally think it is very in line with the actual situation, but let's keep this estimate and continue to analyze.
So if we want to analyze the population change in the north, we naturally have to remove the southern part of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there is no doubt about this, so at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, how many people were there in the south? According to the "Geographical Chronicle of the Book of Jin", the population of Eastern Wu accounts for one-third of the population of the Western Jin Dynasty, plus there are a certain number of migrant households, so we can infer that the starting point of the population of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is about 10 million, then we can roughly speculate that the starting population of the north, from the Yuan Kang decade is about 25 million, then the population of the Rebellion of the Eight Kings has caused a huge population loss We actually do not know, but we can use the reverse way to speculate on the bottom value of the population.
According to the demographics of the early years of the Former Qin Dynasty, from Mr. Wang Yumin's "History of the Chinese Mouth", we can know that the Former Qin had a population of more than 20 million in 383 years, so if calculated according to the average annual growth rate of five thousandths per year (because according to statistics, the average annual growth rate of the ancient population reached eight thousandths is very, very difficult, basically only a few periods of the Great Unification Dynasty can be achieved, which belongs to the high growth rate), then we can push back, the northern population 64 years AD 319, That is, when Shi Le established The Later Zhao, the starting point was about 14.53 million people, and in the "History of Chinese Mouth", it is believed that the lowest valley of the northern population should be 5.6 million people.
This lowest point should have occurred in the last year of Ran Wei, but I personally believe that this number is likely to be inconsistent with the actual situation. Because if there were only 5.6 million people, it would take a very long time to increase to 20 million, of course, these 20 million people included part of the population of Shudi and Qianliang (reaching the level of one million), even if these waters were removed, it would take more than 200 years to grow at a rate of five thousandths, and at that time, it was almost impossible to complete this growth with only a maximum of ninety years, so in my opinion, the population of the north may never have been less than 10 million people, and the population loss of the Eight Kings Rebellion may not be as great as imagined.
However, according to the records, a considerable number of people were killed or injured, and at least the recorded population losses exceeded the million level. And we can deduce from the policy of former Zhao, as the origin of the division of Hu and Han (Shi Le's Division of Hu han is the same as that of former Zhao) Former Zhao "placed left and right divisions, each leading household more than 200,000 people, ten thousand households placed one internal history, where the internal history of forty-three people", that is to say, Han Zhao Liu Cong set up forty-three internal history to manage the Han people, each person ten thousand households, and Han Zhao only controlled the hedong area of Hezhou, in fact, the actual territory is not large, it is estimated that there are at least three million people, so it can be roughly known. The population of the north more than 10 million in the Shile period is true.
So it can be seen that the population loss is about 5 million, which is a surprising number.