Details of tenants

After the Qing Dynasty, the number of tenants increased day by day. In the fifty-second year of Kangxi, "the tenants in Wutun guarded Ding 4,120 ... and those in Guanzhuang guarded Ding 8,940". In the twenty-five years of Qianlong (1760), there were "240 households with five villages, 3 households with 8,600 households with Ding, 73 households with official villages and 0/640 households with Ding", with a total of 3 13 households and 10243 households.

"The aristocratic class in the Tang Dynasty raised more slaves. Of course, all the fields in the manor are cultivated, but because the ground is vast and there are thousands of hectares of land, their own slaves are not enough to apply for, so we have to use tenants to cultivate the fields and collect their rent to squander. Such tenants are called customers or landlords. ...... "(from Huang Xianfan: An Introduction to Society in Tang Dynasty)

In Banquan Town, Junan County, Linyi City, Shandong Province, there is a village called Diannong Village, which was named after being poor and working for landlords.

There is a village called Tenant Camp in Longyao County and Ningjin County of Hebei Province, with the same name as above.

Top fertile land has no worries about floods and droughts, and has the best harvest. Every tenant comes to supervise the cutting and spreading of millet, and the two families share it equally)-my mother Hu Shi.