清水江木材的流动在于清水江苗疆对白银的需求,这一方面是当地族群将白银作为财富和不可缺少的礼物,另一方面跟国家赋役征银有关。苗民对白银的需求,开启了木材之路;赋役征银不仅导致苗疆生计模式、土地所有形态的变化,而且改变了社会结群模式与清水江的政治经济格局。
The flow of timber was the demand for silver of the Hmong territory in Qingshuijiang. On the one hand,silver was considered as wealth and indispensible gift among local ethnic groups. And on the other hand,Silver was the national levies liturgical. The Hmong's demand of the silver opened the road of timber flow. While the liturgical silver collection,not only changed the Hmong territory's livelihood and the forms of land ownership,but also changed the social grouping patterns,political and economic structure of the Qingshuijiang area.