Development And Changes

The road between ancient China and Vietnam has gone through a development and change course. On whole, the quantity of road increases gradually, the direction has more definite, and the use is from the sea to the land mainly. On specific, each road in each dynasty has also different development and change. This paper is to discuss the course of the development and change, and reveals the reason that arouses the development and change. Before the Song dynasty, the sea roads between JiaoZhou and GuangZhou become the major roads between China and Vietnam, in which the sea road of LianZhou is particularly important. In the Song and the Yuan dynasty, the roads between JiaoZhou and YongZhou gradually prosperous, which are the major roads between China and Vietnam with the sea road of QinZhou, and in the Yuan dynasty the roads between JiaoZhou and YongZhou become completely the major roads between China and Vietnam, what pay attention to especially is the roads between YunNan and Vietnam that are the major road to use for the emissary of MengYuan dynasty and AnNan. In Ming and Qing dynasty, the ruler assigned AnNan must enter in PingXiang GuangXi, so the roads between GuiLin and Vietnam become the major roads between China and Vietnam. the Qing dynasty is not only restricted for entering place , but also for the route from the barrier to the capital, so this rule restrict the development of the roads which are not roads using for emissary. And the reasons of arising the developments and changes of roads are related with naturally environmental, national cultural, political policy, military war and economic trade etc. In the end, this paper will investigate the position of the traffic of land and water between China and Vietnam in the traffic of China and foreign, and discovery its position also change with the time flying: Before the Song dynasty, the traffic between China and Vietnam take an important position in the traffic of China and foreign, afterwards, its position declines gradually. But in any case, the traffic between China and Vietnam which play important role in the traffic of China and foreign cannot overlooked.