宋代李昉等编的《太平广记》中有一则史料,全文如下: 唐定州何明远,大富,主官中三驿,每于驿边起店停商,专以袭胡为业;赀财巨万,家有绫机五 百张。远年老或不从戎,即家贫破;及如故,即复盛。(《朝野佥载》,《太平广记》卷243,“何明远”引) 像这样记述古代手工业生产规模的史料——“家有绫机五百张”,在现存文献中可以说是仅见的。难怪史家,特别是经济史家,都十分重视这条材料,并常用它来说明唐代手工业发展的规模和高度。如有的史家说,何明远“是一个资本所有者”,他经营的是“大规模织绫工场”,或说是“大规模的私人纺织作坊”。有的史家则用这条史料为例,说明唐代织紝业的发达。由此 There is a historical source in Taiping Guangji compiled by Li Song and others in the Song Dynasty. The full text is as follows: Tang Dingzhou He Mingyuan, Dafu, and the official Zhongsanyu, each stop at the edge of the store and specialize in the development of the industry; Qiang Juwan, the family has 500 aircraft took the opportunity. If you are too old or young, you are poor; (Accompanied by “Records and Remarks in the Morning and Back,” “Tai Ping Guang Ji” vol.243, “He Mingyuan” cited) Historical data on the scale of ancient handicraft production is described as “five hundred pieces of home-made machine”, which can be said to be common in existing literature. . No wonder that historians, especially economic historians, have attached great importance to this material and used it to illustrate the scale and height of the development of the handicraft industry in the Tang Dynasty. If any historian says that He Mingyuan is “a capital owner”, he runs a “massive weaving factory” or “large-scale private textile workshop”. Some historians use this historical material as an example to illustrate the development of the weaving industry in the Tang Dynasty. thus