Three main reasons:
1. Emperor Qin Shihuang Unified China over 2200 years ago and China had thence remained one of the most powerful country in the world, which laid foundation for the vastest and most populous nation in the world(Qin actually consisted of several big kingdoms and each used to be powerful and populous; scholars estimated that population in Qin Dynasty is around 25 to 30 million, the population about today’s Australia.), and ensured a relatively peaceful milieu for the expansion of population though there were several massacres committed by some warlords.
2. Generally speaking, people in most dynasties had no real religious faith. Instead, they had a very firm secular belief: the more offsping you have, the more blessed you are. They therefore deem reproduction of offspring as their principal mission, especially the reproduction of male offspring.
3. A number of experts believe that China boasted one of the highest civilization in at least 10,000 years of its some 30, 000 year civilization. That means high productivity to fuel the expansion of an impressive population. At one peaks of Chinese civilization, namely Tang Dynasty(618–907 AD), the population is estimated to be fluctuating between 50 to 90 million.
1. Emperor Qin Shihuang Unified China over 2200 years ago and China had thence remained one of the most powerful country in the world, which laid foundation for the vastest and most populous nation in the world(Qin actually consisted of several big kingdoms and each used to be powerful and populous; scholars estimated that population in Qin Dynasty is around 25 to 30 million, the population about today’s Australia.), and ensured a relatively peaceful milieu for the expansion of population though there were several massacres committed by some warlords.
2. Generally speaking, people in most dynasties had no real religious faith. Instead, they had a very firm secular belief: the more offsping you have, the more blessed you are. They therefore deem reproduction of offspring as their principal mission, especially the reproduction of male offspring.
3. A number of experts believe that China boasted one of the highest civilization in at least 10,000 years of its some 30, 000 year civilization. That means high productivity to fuel the expansion of an impressive population. At one peaks of Chinese civilization, namely Tang Dynasty(618–907 AD), the population is estimated to be fluctuating between 50 to 90 million.
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