Fort In Northern Shanxi And Social Change In Ming Dynasties To Qing Dynasties Initial Period

Northern Shanxi is located in the Loess Plateau, also is agriculture and animal husbandry ecotone, History had been the Nomads and Farmers fierce competition for the region.In recent years, many of the remains of fort were found in northern Shanxi,these forts with local residents living close. Academic circles studies fort mainly part from military and architecture, there are also aspects of social history as the entry point from the study of the fort.For example,Zhan ping's Rise and Fall:An Examination of the Town Sites and Environment Surrounding the Agrarian Pastoral Regions Around the Yansui Section of the Great Wall During the Ming Dynasty was researched the rise and fall of thirty-nine fortified towns and camps along the Yan Sui section of the Ming Great Wall,and pointed out that the reason behind the demise of these fortified towns and camps were very complex and usually involved multiple factors.Deng qingping's North Country's Fort and the town of the Ming and Qing edge of social change-a study of Hebei Yuxian-centered to study a case of Hebei Yuxian's Fort,on the Fort's construction, types and functions to do the research in detail,but involves a relatively small northern Shanxi fort. This thesis starting point of social history, from each aspect comes to the changes studying the northern Shanxi fort, which revealing Ming and Qing Dynasty border area society history thereby.The background of times appearing northern Shanxi fort is that Ming dynasty goes down south for resisting Mongolia, in northern Shanxi puts Weisuo system into practice, build the pass,castle and military camp to resist the enemy. Then several of the official forts followed constructed, some also added administrative bodies.The folk for self-defense have also built the unofficial forts similar to the official forts, making the fortress became a common rural society in northern Shanxi settlement patterns.Access to historical data, found in northern Shanxi Fort, regardless of location, size, structure and materials are different, the defense function is also somewhat different. Unofficial forts relative to official forts,because of lack of firearms, crossbows and other weapons,defensive capabilities becomes weak.In the Ming and Qing border war and peace situations,demonstrates in detail the Ming and Qing dynasties in the Weisuo system forms the border people organizations, markets,farming, land tax, education,customs,beliefs and life situation of the series occurred change,and the resulting changes in the border people,ideas.These show confirmed the historical,sketched out the Ming and Qing frontier outlined the overall context of social change.