盐,乃国之大宝。河东的池盐生产,历来受到统治者的重视。明清以来,河东盐池的生产、运销体系和相关制度逐渐完备。在历史长河中,河东盐池以及历届政府的相关政策对当地盐池坐商群体及普通贫民群体的生产和生活都产生了较大影响。首先,河东盐池的存在,使当地居民产生了一定的依赖心理,特别是明清以来,虽然盐池的防务体系日渐完备,但偷盐、走私现象严重,影响了当地正常的农业生产。其次,河东盐池坐商的生存发展虽然经受了封建主义、帝国主义和官僚资本主义的剥削压榨,但最终在新中国成功实现了生产结构和经营方式的转变,浴火重生。通过研究明清以来这“一贫一富”两个与盐池关系密切的居民群体,总结了在这些群体中酝酿、积淀而成的盐池平民文化。 Salt, is a great treasure of the country. Hedong pool salt production has always been the ruler’s attention. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the production, distribution and marketing system of Hedong Salt Lake and its related systems have gradually been completed. In the long history, the relevant policies of the Hedong Salt Lake and successive governments have exerted a great influence on the production and livelihood of the local Yanchi sitting group and the ordinary poor group. First of all, the existence of the salt pond in Hedong made the local residents have a certain dependence on psychology. Especially since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, although the defense system of Yanchi is getting more and more complete, the phenomenon of stealing salt and smuggling has seriously affected normal local agricultural production. Second, although the survival and development of the merchants in Hedong Yanchi were experiencing the exploitation of feudalism, imperialism and bureaucratic capitalism, they eventually succeeded in transforming their production structure and mode of operation in New China and re-emerging themselves. Through the study of Ming and Qing dynasties this “one poor and one rich” two groups close to the salt pool residents, summed up in these groups brewing, the Yancheng civilian culture from accumulation.