Research To The City Range Of Hangzhou In History

It requires a researcher of the architeCfore history to have a comprehensive anddefinite understriding of the city Whether from the standpoint of the protCction of afamous historical city or from the view of the renewal and development of the citySuch understanding is based uPon the fami1iarty of the history By investigating thehistorical materials, literthee, and maPs of differnt periods in the history of the cityHangallou, the evolution of its form frOxn the Qin dynasty to the Southern Songdynasty is preliminarily stUdied and several new thinkng and new hypotheses aregiven to some controversial issues before. And then, the thread of the evoluton ofthe city Hangchou is tried to understand with some results sketched.The core of the thesis is of three parts (chaPter 2,3,and 4):ChaPter 2: The Hangallou district before the city domain becaxne stable. In thischaPter, the whter takes the consequences of the thetion of the land and Waertraffic, and of the conStruCtion of the seawall in the Han dynasty as boortan fedorsin locating the early city of Hangtheu area. By commenting on some formerresearches, hyPothesis is made about the location of the early Hangzhou city in theQin, Hang, and the Northem and Southm dynasties. To queries some historyliteratUres, the whter's opinion is tha there existed several cities in the domain of thecity "Hangtheu" in the Sui and early Tang dposties. The writer also gives his ownjudgment about the condihon of the city dUring those periods.ChaPter 3: the city domain of HangZhu in the period of stable developmen.After the period of Wu Yue, Hangallou became a Who1e city. By conunentng on someformer researches and studying the literatUre and maPs aboat the boundny of the cityHangallou in the period of Wu Yue and Southem Song droasties, the writer gives anew opiulon about the boundary the city.ChaPter 4t the research of the Waer system of Hangtheu in history. Theevoluton of the man-made water system is cleared uP, and the results maPped,incorporating some conclusions made in Preceding two chaPters. The names and theirchanges of the rivers and bridges in the historical literatUres are tabled.