唐诗中的经济学——《卖炭翁》另解

Economic Analysis on a Poem:The Old Charcoal Seller

文学作品来源于生活现实,不同时期的文学作品从各个不同的侧面记录了当时的社会经济面貌,唐诗作为中国古典文学的瑰宝,是中国古代经济不可忽略的研究对象。以白居易的名篇《卖炭翁》为例,可分析以长安为代表的唐代分工与交换的发展状况、货币制度、财产权和契约制度,并可根据基本的经济规律,推断出古代人民勤劳简朴,却难得温饱的经济学原因。

Literary works reflected the real economic situations of different times.As the summit of the classic literature,the poetry of the Tang Dynasty would be a important resource to study economy of ancient China.Here,taking one of the famous poems of Bai Juyi---The Old Charcoal Seller for example,we can analyse the division of labor,the exchange of commodities,the monetary system,the proprietary and the contract institutions of Changan in Tang Dynasty,and know the reason why the ancient people were general diligent but poor.