南阳师范学院学报

流民问题并非明代所独有,但明代流民问题之严重则是史无前例的。明代流民问题中最令政府感到头疼的是荆襄、南阳流民,而来自河南的流民在其中又占了很大的比例。明代河南流民运动发生的根本原因是由于明政府对灾荒控制的不力,当明王朝无力提供食物以减轻饥荒时就发生了流民潮,流民最终成为明朝的掘墓人。

The refugee problem wasn’t confined only to the Ming Dynasty,but it was in the Ming Dynasty that the graveness of this problem became unprecedented.Refugees brought a lot of trouble to the Ming Dynasty,and what troubled the government most was the refugees from Jing Xiang regions and Nanyang,a great proportion of whom came from Henan Province.The fundamental reason for rampant Henanese refugee movements in the Ming Dynasty was that the government in the Ming Dynasty was ineffective in dealing with famine control.When eventually the Ming Dynasty regime failed to provide sufficient food for famine relief,an avalanche of refugees came into being,who ultimately turned to the "gravediggers" of the Ming Dynasty regime.