Clan, Settlement And Regional Society In Huizhou Since Song And Yuan Dynasties

The strength of the clan concept and its materialistic carrier:the genealogy,the ancestral hall,the existence and the number of the field,is to examine a region clan situation and its existence form the main reference index.The genealogy which survived to today and remains of ancient villages,ancient ancestral hall and other cultural relics show that the traditional period of Huizhou was a clan developed area.This study focuses on the formation of Huizhou clan since the Song and Yuan Dynasties,not only can deepen the study of Huixue,but also accumulate a typical example of the formation and regional evolution of the‘clan’case.As a geographical entity formed by clan settlement,the clan settlement can be used to study the spatial distribution,morphological structure and type evolution of the clan settlement.It can glimpse the relationship between man and land,the distribution of family name and the formation and evolution of clan and regional society in the historical period.Regional historical geography research and clan research a better entry point.Shexian west of the main terrain is the valley plain,geographical environment and adjacent regional political center of the regional advantages to become immigrants moved to Huizhou after the choice of settlements,She Xi became Huizhou territory famous surname one of the main settlements.The advantages of population and geography make Shexian become the first area of regional development of Shexian and Huizhou,and the development of farmland water conservancy in the form of pond and ye as the main form in the Tang and Song dynasties needs to cooperate with the same name and surname respectively,and promote the operation of the small community The development of Shexi clan and local society.Since the Song Dynasty,the clan clan gathered in the Song Dynasty,and the two peaks appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty,which coincided with the time characteristics of Huizhou clan formation.The geography of the same family and the surname of the same family and the descendants of the same family were formed by the geography of marriage.Genealogy,ancestral hall and other clan markers geographical distribution shows that Shexie basin is located in the end of Shexian Xixiang should be regarded as the Song and Yuan Dynasties since the formation of Huizhou clan one of the important source.