Abstract: It is evident that there were diverse forms for transferring property rights in land during the Qing  Dynasty. There were mainly two kinds of transaction, one was the direct exchange of the property rights in land, and the other was financial transaction that did not entail a final transfer of property rights. Several financial methods that have often been confused are differentiated and analyzed in this paper based on the original contracts and legal judgments in Qing Dynasty. These are collateral(ya), pawn(dian), hock and pawn(dang), and “repayment of debt by land to be shared by two sides”(di). These methods served the financial needs of farmers who hoped to keep their land. The direct transaction of the land included several exchanges of lands which could be redeemed and compensated, in order to protect the proprietors as far as possible. Some other transactions by partnership and shareholder were also discovered in the original materials. All these diverse transactions of property righty in land, not only helped peasants weather financial difficulties without selling off their land, but also assembled and allocated production factors and resources in the land market.