明清时期河南煤炭的开采与利用王兴亚河南是我国煤炭资源最为丰富，并且是最早发现和利用煤作为燃料的地区，至迟在西汉河南就已有用煤来冶铁的大型手工作坊。时至宋代，京城开封“数百万家尽仰石炭，无一家烧薪者。”①明清时期，虽然从总体上看，河南手工业的技术水平不... Mining and Utilization of Henan Coal in Ming and Qing Dynasties Wang Xingya Henan is the most abundant coal resource in our country and the earliest discovered and utilized coal as fuel area. As soon as the Western Han Dynasty in Henan Province, there was already a large-scale hand workshop that used coal for iron production. When the Song Dynasty, the capital of Kaifeng, “millions of people to do the charcoal, no one who burn.” ① Ming and Qing Dynasties, although generally speaking, Henan handicrafts technical level is not ...