From Garrison To Coutryside: A Case Study Of Gannan’s Yangjiaoshui Fort In Ming And Qing Dynasties

Yang jiao shui Fort is a military defence outpost and was used to build for resistingthieves in Ming Dynasty. It locates in the juncture of Gan Min Yue, and is noted for its“through fares of three provinces. It was a fortress in which the army and the people guarded together, this kind of fortress was not uncommon in the other places. However, it’sworth noting that it was uncommon that a fortress completely changed to a single-surnamelineage village. The garrison regime crash led directly to the weakening of local controlof the country, The garrison therefore embarked on the road to the state’s. Nation relianceon local forces led to the nationalization of local forces, which prompted the local community to get a re-shuffle opportunity. Many places, many forces, many clans were obtaineddevelopment opportunities from marginalization to the dynasty or regional centers. Afterthe end of "Pirates of the chaos",Gannan economy has been largely developed with many places towards to the town. As is traffic arteries and obviously the military character,Yang jiao shui Fort loss its own development advantages gradually, starting from the "center" to "edge" technology. Its previous advantage into a disadvantage, making it the militarization bring a relatively good conditions for development to Yang jiao shui Fort in turbulent times, but also limits its development later. Yang jiao shui Fort ’s development trendof militarization and clan unitary will inevitably lead to a lack of competition, which isobviously not conducive to the economic development of the town. Yang jiao shui Fort ’sclan unitary development is undoubtedly a success, but its socio-economic transformationis far from satisfactory even failure. Unrest in South of Jiangxi during Ming and Qing Dynasties shaping the development of Yang jiao shui Fort and Zhou clan in a certain extent, made it towards a unitary development. In its interior, the state of the "unity and centralization" awareness throughout the social development among the region. And "authoritarian" does not fit the new economic factors in the late Ming and Qing arise. Thus, in thetown of the development period, Yang jiao shui Fort gradually decline.Yang jiao shui Fort developed into a village from the garrison, but failed to transition to the town, the main reasons are the following: First, geographical restrictions, becauseof the characteristics of mountain military pass, it does not have the inherent advantagesof large-scale urbanization; The second is in the "Pirates of chaos" period, failed to give full play to shipping, trade and other advantages, the economic development with a clearmilitary and economic foundation is not solid. Third, after the largely development of Gannan economy,Jun men mountain,where is superior in all aspects compare with Yang jiaoshui Fort, rapid rise and toward town, develop into Gannan "four towns", Yang jiao shuiFort will eventually become its subsidiary. Fourth, clan development and ethnic integration of Hakka makes many place blocking and the "centralization" strengthening, it does notfit the capitalist economic factors in the late Ming and Qing Dynasty,and Qing GanNan’s social transformation trend of town.In summary, Yang jiao shui Fort in Ming and Qing Dynasties changes and development from the garrison to countryside were decided by specific social context of the socialarea on the nature, it is chance’s and necessity’s result. Yang jiao shui Fort’s changes an d development, not only reflects garrison location development after the collapse of garrison regime in the late Ming, but also reflects Southern Jiangxi and western Fujian, easternGuangdong form a unique Hakka geographical society, after Hakka and other groups’s development of Gannan and the social reforme from "chaos" to "cure" since the late Ming emergence of new economic factor. Represented in Yang jiao shui Fort Ming and Qing Gannan’s area society of development and change, the presence of both commonality of local nationalization, standardization and particularity of national system localization. It is alsobecause of specificity of area social change in Ming and Qing Gannan, the developmentof Yang jiao shui Fort and the localization of coastal most garrison city are different.,developed into a typical Hakka single clan village, from which we can better understand the context of social development in the mainland city.