【摘要】 伴随着中国古代城市的发展,城内居民的构成也在不断地发生变化。城最初是军事防御的城堡,居民以农人为主。随着经济的发展和市场的兴盛,春秋战国时的城市居民主要被划分为士、农、工、商四类,但农民一直都是主体。两汉时仍然延续着战国的传统,但在交换经济和土地兼并的破坏下,大量农民丧失了土地,沦为流民或大土地所有者的依附民,城内农业人口的数量不断趋于下降,但短期内还不会完全被排挤在城墙之外。更多还原

【Abstract】 The development of Chinese ancient cities was a long historical process.The residents’ structure of the cities changed constantly with their development.Originally, the cities were defensive fortresses of military, and most of the residents were peasants.Along with the development of the economy, the real ancient cities were born in the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods.The residents of the cities were mainly divided into four kinds: scholar, peasant, craftsman and businessman.But the peasants had been the city residents’major part.Then in the Han Dynasty, the residents’ structure of the cities still continued the traditions of the Warring States Period, although the exchange economy and the amalgamating of the lands rendered many peasants landless and became vagrants and hangers-on to those big landlords, which witnessed a drop of the peasant population in the city but the peasants would not be excluded from the city for a long period of time.更多还原