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The history of beggars in ancient my country began almost at the same time as civilized society. Although beggars are the poor at the bottom of society and are not valued by the ruling classes of the past dynasties and are rarely recorded in official history, many records about beggars have been left in the notebooks, novels, local chronicles and folk legends of literati. From these scattered but precious records, people can see complicated and colorful scenes of beggars. From emperors, generals, scholars, and common people, they are all included in this begging scene. No one is spared, and it is thought-provoking. Although this social group belongs to the poor at the bottom of society and is not valued by the rulers, they have always been active in every corner of every dynasty and have become an unavoidable social phenomenon. "Beggars in Ancient China" aims to use popular and vivid language to systematically sort out and analyze the reasons for the emergence of this group, its personnel composition, begging methods, beggar gang organizations, and the policies of past rulers towards beggars, in order to provide readers with some meaningful reference for understanding this group.