The Chinese population during the Warring States period, the approximate population of the Warring S

1. The peak population during the Warring States Period was about 45 million people, and the population size of the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty grew to more than 60 million, which was the first population peak period in Chinese history.

2. At the end of the Three Kingdoms, the population fell to about 30 million, and after three or four hundred years, the population peak could only be maintained at around 30 or 40 million. The peak population of the Tang Dynasty returned to the level of the Han Dynasty, slightly surpassing it.

3. In five generations, the population has plummeted to more than 20 million. to the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the later period, the population appeared a "big **", exceeding 100 million for the first time. This was the second population peak in China's history.

4. During the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, the population was about 68 million. In the late Ming Dynasty, the population slowly recovered to its peak at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, it exceeded 100 million.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, China's population began to grow rapidly, mainly due to the emergence of iron plough and ox ploughing, which greatly improved the production efficiency of agriculture and increased the population capacity of society. In order to increase the supply of troops and food, the state has also vigorously encouraged farming, accelerated agricultural development, and promoted population growth. We can feel the expansion of the population from the expansion of the scale of the war, the war in the early Spring and Autumn period, there were several thousand people on both sides, and by the end of the Spring and Autumn period, it reached tens of thousands, and during the Warring States period, it even reached hundreds of thousands (there are exaggerated elements).

According to estimates, the peak population of the Sengoku period was 26 million. Specifically, there were about 5 million in Chu, 4 million in Qin, 4 million in Qi, 3.5 million in Zhao, 3.5 million in Wei, 2 million in Yan, 1.5 million in Korea, 1 million in Song, and 1 million in Yue. If you count the surrounding ethnic minorities, it is estimated that there are 30 million.

During the Qin Dynasty's unification war, the population declined. After the unification of the Qin Dynasty, there was a great deal of conscription, which made it difficult for the population to grow. According to the number of conscripts in the Qin Dynasty**, the population of the Qin Dynasty was about 20 million.

The population of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period:

1. The State of Qin, the area of the State of Qin has reached 1 million square kilometers, the number of troops is also 1 million, and the population is also 6 million.

2. Zhao State, because Zhao State is located in the north, it only has a population of 3 million, and the army has at least 500,000, after all, 450,000 troops were dispatched in the Battle of Changping.

3. The State of Chu, the area of the State of Chu in its heyday once reached 1.5 million square kilometers, accounting for almost half of the area of the Seven Heroes at that time. That's how powerful it is. And it is said that it was strong and had a million armor.

But in fact, it should be less than one million, and it is estimated that the cap is 800,000! The population of Chu is said to have reached 8 million at its peak.

4. Qi State, according to later statistics, Qi State has a land area of about 15 square kilometers, but the population is more than 4 million, in the strong period of Qi State.

5. The Wei State, in the middle and late Warring States period, has been completely reduced to a small country, and later generations also believe that the population of the Wei State has been maintained at more than 3 million, and the land area is almost 200,000 square kilometers.

6. Yan Kingdom, the largest period of Yan Country also has 200,000 square kilometers, but this is not counting the land occupied by Le Yi Vaqi. The population remains at around 1.5 million.

7. South Korea, South Korea also had a population of 2.5 million at its peak. After all, South Korea occupies the center of the world and is densely populated.

Relevant documents.

According to the estimation of the population of the Warring States period in the second year of the first year of the Hanshu Geographical Chronicle (2 AD), the population of the country at that time was 59.59 million, and the population of the Warring States period was 49.83 million, and the population of the Warring States period ranged from 20 million to 40 million. Multiply the population of each prefecture to get an approximate range. According to the corresponding territory of the former princes of the Warring States, the population can be estimated, and I personally tend to use the territory between 350 BC and 300 BC, plus the Liaodong, Hetao, Beidi, and southern Chu regions annexed by the "Golden Horn State" in the later period.

Although the ancient household registration system appeared relatively early, due to the loss of pre-Qin historical materials, we can no longer accurately know the total population of the Warring States period and the specific number of people in other countries. According to Fan Wenlan's "General History of China", the total population during the Warring States period was about 30 million.

1. When Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, Qin's land area was about 300,000 square kilometers and the population was 3 million (Su and Qin periods).

2. When Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, the land area of Yan was about 200,000 square kilometers and the population was 1.5 million.

3. When Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, the Zhao State covered an area of about 200,000 square kilometers and had a population of 3.5 million.

4. When Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, the area of Qi was about 150,000 square kilometers and the population was 3 million.

5. When Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, Wei had an area of about 100,000 square kilometers and a population of 5 million.

6. When Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, Han had an area of about 90,000 square kilometers and a population of 3 million.

7. When Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, Chu had an area of about 500,000 square kilometers and a population of 3 million (Su and Qin periods).

8. After Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, the population of the country was less than 30 million, and according to historical records, the ratio of Qin's population to army during the Warring States Period once reached 5:1.

There is no such thing as hundreds of thousands of people fighting at the same time, and the Battle of Changping is also a confrontation of hundreds of thousands of people. It is remarkable to invest tens of thousands of people in real battles, and it seems that hundreds of thousands of them include logistics personnel such as Minfu, and you can think of how great the combat mobilization power was during the Ming and Qing dynasties, not to mention more than 2,000 years ago.

South Korea: less than 3 million.

Wei State: About 5.5 million.

Zhao Guo: About 3.5 million.

Yan Guo: About 1.5 million.

Qi State: About 3 million.

Qin: About 2.7 million.

Chu State: about 5.5 million.

When Qin Shi Huang unified China, the total population of the territory was about 20 million.

During the Warring States period, iron tools and ox farming were widely used, which greatly promoted the rapid development of social productive forces. During the wars of annexation, the vassal states pursued a population policy of the people of the vast land, which greatly increased the population during the Warring States period. According to the estimates of Mr. Fan Wenlan and Mr. Yang Kuan, the total population of the Seven Kingdoms was about 20 million on the eve of Qin's unification of China.

Liang Qichao's estimate is even more {, putting it at the time of the Warring States period that the population was about 30 million. Compared with the population of the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, its growth rate is astonishing.

During the Warring States Period, the population development rate of various countries made greater progress than that of the Spring and Autumn Period. Argon? Zhao Ce recorded the words of Ma Fujun Zhao Hao:

The ancients, within the four seas, were divided into ten thousand countries, although the city was large, there were no more than three hundred zhang, and although there were many people, there were no more than three thousand families. Today, the city of thousands of feet, the city of thousands of families also looks at each other. It is reported that there are 70,000 households in Linzi, the capital of Qi State, at that time, the road of Linzi, the car hub hits, the people shoulder rubbing, even the curtain is formed, the coat is raised into a curtain, and the sweat becomes rain.

Yiyang, South Korea, eight miles from the city, among the 100,000 dust rocks, Su Zhi has been in the field for several years. It can be seen that the population density of the capital has increased greatly during the Warring States period. Others, such as Luoyang of Zhou, Xianyang of Qin, Puyang of Wei, Yingying of Chu, Ji of Yan, Handan of Zhao, Daliang of Wei, and Dingtao of Song were all the capitals of the world at that time, and there must be a large number of people gathered.

The distribution of the population during the Warring States Period, Sima Qian wrote in "Historical Records? There is a comprehensive discussion in the "Biography of the Goods and Colonies" that the three rivers of Fu are in the world, and if they are full, the king will live more. The founding of the country is more than 1,000 years old, the land is small and narrow, the people are many, and the princes of the capital gather.

The middle mountain is thin and crowded. Zou and Lu Binsu ,......The land is small. ...... north of SurabayaThe land is small.

From this point of view, the densely populated areas during the Warring States period were still concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, about the vast areas of present-day Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other provinces.