中文摘要：

乡间集市是乡村交易的主要场所，依托土地而生存的农民将交易需求与土地不动产特性融入乡村集市，为集期间隔、客源区范围以及集市地理分布印上了鲜明的农业生产痕迹。农业生产与土地之间建立的稳定的对应关系，不仅使村民前往集市参与交易的距离大约在一日往返路程内，也将乡村交易建立在定期市的基础上，乡村集市对农户而言存在规模等级，但并不具备关系等级。

英文摘要：

This research of village fairs in Shanxi Province in recent Chinese history has following conclusions. As the principal venue of rural markets, village fairs combined the need of trade with the features of real estate property, out of which farmers made their livings. Therefore, intervals between the village fairs, scope of their customer resource, and distribution of the markets all featured the apparent characteristics of agriculture. The stable and corresponding relationship between agriculture and land confined the distance of villagers who go for trades and market fairs within one-day＇s walking and also set the market fairs periodically. For peasants, village fairs had scale ranks, but they did not have hierarchies in relations.