据统计,二三十年代,定县家庭手工副业有120余种之多,而以手工棉纺织业最为发达,与农民经济的关系亦最密切。 关于定县棉纺织业的年代及其历史,已无从考究,但相传已极久远。据丛翰香先生考证,明代万历年间,真定府各县均已植棉。这时,定县是真定府的一个县,表明定县于明末即已植棉,当属可信。我以为,植棉既已开始,棉纺织业的兴起则是自然而然的。在定县的旧志中,已有关于明代手工棉纺织业的记载。如刘氏,“奉姑纺绩,以给甘旨”;郝氏,“织纴课子”;甄氏,“贫甚,以纺绩资生”,等等。虽然这些例子都是封建政府为宣扬节烈而作,但在一定程度上却也反映出家庭手工棉纺织业是比较普遍的现象。至清代前中期,此类“事迹”的记录,更是不胜枚举。定县处居内陆,交通不便,估计农民手工纺织业,多为自纺、自织、自用。 According to statistics, in the 1920s and 1930s, there were over 120 species of handicrafts by hand in Dingxian County. The most developed hand-made cotton textile industry was also the most closely related to the peasants’ economy. About Dingxian cotton textile industry’s age and its history, no elegant, but the word has been extremely long. According to Mr. Cong Han Xiang textual research, the Ming Dynasty Wanli years, the county government have been planting cotton. At this time, Dingxian County is a prefect of Dingfu Prefecture, indicating that Dingxian County has already started to plant cotton at the end of the Ming Dynasty. I think that cotton planting has already begun, and the rise of the cotton textile industry is quite natural. In the old records of Ding County, there have been records on the handmade cotton textile industry in the Ming Dynasty. Such as Liu, “Fenggu spinning performance to give sweet purpose”; Hao, “weaving class class”; Zhen’s “poor, textile spinning”, and so on. Although these examples were made by the feudal government in order to promote the festival, to a certain extent, they also reflected the fact that hand-made cotton textile industry was a common phenomenon. To the middle and early Qing Dynasty, such records of “deeds” are even more numerous. Dingxian Residence inland, traffic inconvenience, it is estimated that farmers hand-textile industry, mostly spinning, self-made, for their own use.