The Study Of The Ming Dynasty's Primary Defene, Which Is Concentrated In Gannan Area

During the Ming Dynasty, Gannan Area is located in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi and Hunan provinces and border areas, which with complex terrain, high mountains, dense forests, poor environment and malaria frequently. Such natural and geographical conditions that make it easy to become a natural breeding ground for local unrest. After the late Ming,development of mountain areas and displaced persons to enter and keep the local social order and stability suffered even greater challenge.During Ming Dynasty, Gannan area affected by the gangster, long-term social unrest..In response to local unrest, maintaining social order, Gannan areas built up a local defense system,Military defence force as Weisuo,Primary control organization as Xunjiansi and Militia, Grass-roots social organizations as Baojia and Xiangyue,all of them are involved in the local defense and play their respective role.Influence by local unrest, the local defense forces in South Jiangxi also been adjusted with the defense system.During early Ming Dynasty,Weisuo,Xunjiansi and Militia are Responsible foe the local defenses of Gannan area.After the Ming Dynasty in the late,In the local defense forces,militia and rural soldiers play an increasingly important role.Through the local defense of the study,we can see,the local defense during Ming Dynasty,has gone through from national to local, to the social process,showed the localization characteristics of defense.the study of Gannan Area's primary defene,which will provide useful references for we further study the primary defense of the Ming Dynasty.