北魏前期的新民 ,是指在北魏统一北方的过程中 ,被北魏征服后迁往京师平城及其附近地区的人民。前期的新民是指新迁之民 ,到后来 ,新民的含义扩大为新附之民。绝大部分的新民从事农业生产。北魏在新民中实行计口授田制度 ,加速了北魏国家封建化的进程 The Xinmin in the early Northern Wei Dynasty refers to the people who moved to the Pingcheng and other nearby areas after they were conquered by the Northern Wei Dynasty in the process of unifying the Northern Wei Dynasty. The earlier Xinmin refers to the newly-relocated people, and later the meaning of Xinmin was expanded to the newly attached people. The vast majority of Xinmin engaged in agricultural production. The Northern Wei Dynasty practiced the system of counting and awarding land in Xinmin and accelerated the process of feudalization in the Northern Wei Dynasty