A Study On The Coastal Defence Geography Of Canton Intermediate Division During Ming And Qing Dynasties

The study on the Coastal Defence Geography of Canton Intermediate Division during Ming and Qing Dynasties, is actually Investigating the Geographical elements of coastal defense and their relationship Under the jurisdiction of the Regional Government of Guangzhou, the core of which is the Lintin Ocean region. This paper mainly using methods of historical geography, from macro to micro, from Land to the ocean, in order to explore the multi-level space. This paper consists of four parts:introduction, body, conclusion, appendix. As the main structure of the body, the following parts will be discussed.The first chapter is General remarks. In order to facilitate the general situation of Canton Intermediate Division during Ming and Qing Dynasties from the overall perspective, the general situation in this study were from the coastal areas regionalism, coastal geography as a description of two aspects of the situation. In addition, sublimate the inner relationship between the "coastal areas regionalism" and "Coastal Geography", through a case study on Coast defence geographical factors of Xin'an County in the third quarter. That is, coastal areas regionalism is closely related to coastal defense policy in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Change in the coastal defense policy but also take full account of its own which has the Coastal Defence Geography, Relatively stable, distinct regional vision for coastal defense coastal defense deployment of geographic situation provides the most direct reference and guidance.The author explains the deployment of the coastal defense and coastal defense equipment of Canton Intermediate Division during Ming and Qing Dynasties in the second chapter. The seeds from the Late Yuan shunt to the mid-Ming Dynasty official start of three-way, to the Qing four, five-interpretation. the deployment of the coastal defense of Guangdong rise to mature from an experience of a more lengthy process. On the other hand, with the warships represented by "Guangzhou-Ship" and the "Damin group" which is an important source of troops for the quality, showing the superiority of its unique.The author makes a discussion on the coastal defense of Canton Intermediate Division for special from the ocean, land, the Pearl River Estuary three vertical division of geographical space in terms of the keynote in Chapters Three, Four, Five. that is, the "island defense", "land defense", " pearl river defense " three anti-defense system-one that specifically mentioned the longitudinal. Such as, an analysis of Macau's coastal defense factors from renaming of Lao-wan mountain in Ming & Qing Dynasties; an analysis of the Changes of the coastal patrol in historical periods to investigate the relationship of coastal defense behind; And by analysis of Humen defense, describes the characteristics of the defense of Pearl River Estuary. The writing mode of"three defenses" is described separately, is different from the coastal defense of the traditional chronological or Notepad body form. but from a historical point of view of spatial structure in a bold attempt.The author summaries the Geographical characteristics of Canton intermediate division which is as the core of the Guangdong's coastal defense system in Chapter Six. This geographical feature of coastal defense shown that, affected by the diversity of the region's coastal defense objects, the gravity of coastal defense developed stage by stage. That is, Coastal areas regionalism had a focus shift in the lateral region and Geospatial land and sea had a focus shift in the vertical region.