清代河南集镇的集期

The Periodicity of Rural Markets in Henan Province of the Qing Dynasty

清代河南集镇的集期以间日集和每日集为主,在城集多每天开市,在乡集镇多隔天开市。虽然集镇拥有较高的开市频率,但是,集期时集镇内部只有少部分的起集地点参与了贸易交流;整体贸易时间中集期与轮铺会的会期结合,形成了集期时商业规模小于会期时商业规模的贸易习惯。这就造成了集镇经济中商品交易量有限,在一定程度上制约了河南商品经济的发展程度。

Rural markets in Henan province of the Qing Dynasty could be classificated to daily - markets and every - other - day markets mainly, markets in county towns usually were daily - markets and the others were every - other - day markets. Though these markets had high reopenning frequency, only a little places participated in the trading as a market was opening. Besides markets there were lots of take- turning Temple Fair held at the same time, usually business scale of ordinaty markets were smaller than take - turning Temple Fair. So the trading volume of ordinary markets were limited, which restricted the development of commodity economy in Henan Province, to a certain extent.