Study on the Opium Planting,Distribution and the Impact on the Agriculture Environment of Shanxi Province in Qing Dynasty

In Qing Dynasty Shanxi was the famous area of private opium planting,the damages were extremely serious. According to various history documents,the earliest time of the opium planting in Shanxi was in 1832,largely planted behind Xian Fengreign. Meanwhile,the opium planting condition in Shanxi province has been carried out first step recovery.what’s more,the article drew a prefecture picture of the planting county. Large growing opium tremendous impact on the agricultural environment,it not only lost a lot of farmland labor,but also competed with other crops,water and labor,and also consumed soil fertility extremely.This is the important reasons for theGreat Famine in 1877-1878.