Abstract
The military-salt households (junzaoji) in the Chinese coastal salt-producing regions had a special status in the household registration system in the Ming dynasty, which differed from both the military households (junji) and the salt-producing households (zaoji or yanji), though both and especially the latter played a significant role in the formation of these military-salt households. From the early years of Ming, some households assumed both salt-producing services (yanke) and military services (junyi); hence were recognized as military households and salt-producing households at the same time. Some military households, however, illegally changed or secretly forsook their given status to salt-producing households in order to evade the heavy military services. By mid-Ming, the local government in these coastal salt-producing regions began to legalize this new dual status of military-salt households, bringing about a profound change to the household administration systems.
Keywords
Ming dynasty, coastal salt-producing regions, military-salt households (junzaoji), salt-producing households (zaohu or yanhu), military households (junhu)
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