Study On Shandong 's Cities In Ming And Qing Dynasties

The city’s construction in Ming and Qing Dynasties is a major project. It has an important impact at the local community. Since the late Ming Dynasty, wars were frequent. As the internal and external affairs increased, it becomes a serious problem for the construction of the city wall. And since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the nationwide war continued, which let the rulers to recognize the importance of defense walls. I selected this time period which was built a city more frequent to explore the reasons of spatial and temporal distribution and city construction.The city is built by earthen at the beginning, after years of erosion, run-down dump destroyed lots of city wall. Along with improvements in the brick kiln, firing technology development around the city conducted a package after another brick in the package with brick facades, rugged and strong military defense capabilities and combat capability has been greatly improved. As soil improvement to the brick time, concentrated in the late Ming Dynasty, when large-scale peasant uprising broke out, the rulers bricked each city in order to suppress the uprising. Diverse city on the external shape of the main city square and many more, but by limiting the terrain and rivers, city contour changes, showing a diversity. What factors affects the city administration level, the paper focuses on the city perimeter and the number of gates in an attempt to find out the correlation.It is difficult for all levels to keep out of the affair when facing the situation of city construction. Local officials played the core role in the construction of the city, the gentry played the role of facilitator, people are responsible for actively involved in promoting the successful completion of the city’s fortifications. In the source of funding, the Treasury issued more money, mostly for the larger city. For the small city of industry and trade, the place has to solve their financial problems, which prompted the local officials and gentry to donate money, and people are encouraged to contribute so that the building walls can be successfully completed.