试述山东官台盐场的变迁

A Study on the Transitions of Guantai Salt Field in Shandong

自古以来,鲁北就是海盐主要生产区域。元代初期官府设置益都课税所管理山东海盐,后改立山东转运司。元代山东设19所盐场,寿光官台场为其中之一;官台场明清沿袭其场区规模并有所扩大,是古代北方最早使用盐引的海盐产区,盐产量位居前列。官台盐场虽历经变迁,但仍在山东各盐场中占据重要地位,反映了元、明、清三代鲁北潍坊寿光盐业的发达。

The Northern Shandong was the major production area of sea salt since ancient time.At the early Yuan Dynasty,the government set Yidu Salt Tax Office to manage the Shandong sea salt and the office was latter changed to Shandong Transfer Office.There were19salt fields in Shandong during Yuan Dynasty,and Guantai salt field in Shouguang was one of them.In Ming and Qing Dynasties,the scale of salt fields increased.The sea salt production area was the earliest one to use salt Yin in the northern China and the salt productivity ranked forefront.The Guantai salt field played an important role in the Shandong salt fields,reflecting the developed salt industry of Shouguang in Northern Shandong during Yuan,Ming and Qing Dynasties.