Abstract: Rural markets in Henan province of the Qing Dynasty could be classificated to daily-markets and every-other-day markets mainly, markets in county tow ns usually were daily-markets and the others were ever y-other-day markets.Though these markets had high reopenning frequency , only a little places participated in the trading as a mar ket was opening.Besides markets there were lots of take-turning Temple Fair held at the same time, usually business scale of ordinaty markets were smaller than take-turning Temple Fair.So the trading volume of ordinar y mar kets were limited,which restricted the development of commodity eco nomy in Henan Province, to a certain extent.