清代的赌博述论

清初，赌博之风并不严重，参赌的人也不多；清朝中后期，赌风颇为厉害，其花样之多，波及地域之广，参与人数之众，为此前各朝历代所不及。这不只是一个严重的社会问题，而且给社会造成了恶劣的影响。究其根源，在于清朝中后期政治腐败，对赌博缺乏抵抗力；社会闲散人员多，以赌博为寄托；赌博的消遣、图利功能具有很大的吸引力，吸引众多人员参与。赌博与政治腐败密切相关，政治腐败之时赌博之风越厉害，赌博是政治腐败的标志，它又会加速政治的腐朽与没落。

Gambling in Qing Dynasty

With a comparatively small quantity of participants, g am bling didn't form a serious social problem in early Qing dynasty. However, when it came to its middle and late periods, with a large variety of forms, a wide co verage of aread and a great number of participants, gambling brought very ill ef fects to the society. It was rooted in the corruption of the middle and late Qin g governments, which resulted in a fable immunity of the society against gamblin g and a considerable number of unemployed citizens to whom gambling made a great attraction for its entertainment and lucrative potentiality. This paper puts fo rward the thesis point that gambling is closely related to political corruption. The more corrupted a government is, the more popular gambling becomes. Gambling , as a barometer of political corruption, can accelerate the corruption and dege neration of the government in return.