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Implementation of the Yellow Register System

Type Event Region China Time 1371–1380

In the early Ming, during the Hongwu era, the Yellow Register system was established and implemented, recording households, land, and tax-labor oblig…

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  1. 1371–1373Nanjing · Jiangsu ProvinceThe Ming court promulgated regulations for compiling the Yellow Register, stipulating registration by household, compiled every ten years, recording persons, fields, and taxes and labor services due; the registers were kept in government offices as the basis for lijia collection and inspection.
  2. 1374–1380Provinces of the Ming dynasty · ChinaDriven by measures such as the household registration survey in the seventh year of Hongwu, prefectures, departments, and counties compiled Yellow Registers according to the rules, linked with lijia organization, forming a nationwide household registration system that provided an institutional basis for tax and labor collection.

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