Choice Of The Geographical Environment And The Villagers Make A Living

The discussion about humanity survival style and the region environment's relations in historical period is in an important content historical geography research. The environment under the different historical period and different region has the different influence on humanity's survival style. Meanwhile, humanity's different survival ways also produce the different results to the region environment. Between the two is the mutual connection and can not be divided.The West Region of The North Yellow River had two remarkable characteristics in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: First, the east area was overflowed along the river Yellow River which leaded to its environment obvious instability; Second, the western center area geographical environment had the obvious difference. In view of the environment unstable and the region environment's difference, the villagers of The West Region of The North Yellow River adopted the different living ways. The choice of Villagers' living ways also had the different influence to this local environment. This article discussed the geographical environment and the choices of villagers' living way under The West Region of The North Yellow River in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, attempts to analyze the relations between them, and better understand the relations between person and environment.This article first discusses the geographical environment of explains The West Region of The North Yellow River and its instability namely Yellow River frequent overflows. Induce the characteristics and influence about the overflows of Yellow River. The main performance is: collapsing the beach, submerging the fields, causing the interval not to be unstable and the crops not to be received; flushing the houses, submerging the villages and small towns, thus causing the villagers to be destitute and homeless; causing the interval to appear and disappear unpredictably, from this causes the villagers to prosecute mutually, even stirs up trouble, initiates struggle of the interval, namely so-called "beach document". The local villagers Facing this kind of unstable environment, the choice about living way of the local villagers have very big uniformity along the river, Namely migrating or constructing the village, arranging the interval, choosing suitable crops, adapting the living way and so on, in order to adapt to this kind of changeable circumstances.As for Yellow River interval outside regions, Because of the difference of geographical environment, the choices of villagers' living way also had the multiplicity. This article carries on positive elaborated in detail about the choices of villagers' living way in The West Region of The North Yellow River which including Hancheng, Heyang and Chaoyi in view of their different geographical environments. The Hancheng geographical environment presents the appearance of "seven mountains, two waters and one land". A chief feature is the numerous mountains and water, Facing such geographical environment, The villagers in Hancheng choose d the planters of fruit trees, rice and the hemp and so on which is quite suitable mountains and water environment. Another main physical character is the flat land is Scarce, especially farming. The villagers in the flat of Hancheng, if wanted to survive well, they must double diligently, enhanced the land diligently and the crop rotation multiple-crop index, which presented two year four ripe crop rotation multiple cropping. The positive characteristic geographical environment of Heyang was that it had a lot of Taiyan, so called "one beach, two ditches and seven flats". These flats relatively were originally smooth, may carry on the agricultural production, therefore the villagers in Heyang mainly planted the crops primarily. But the geographical environment of Chanyi included the mountain, the water, the sand and the beach, Facing such geographical environment, the villagers of Chanyi mainly put their energy on planting fruits, vegetables and cotton, namely by industrial crop primarily, which caused the economic structure in county of Chaoyi to have the fundamental change. And this article also has carried on the analysis on the reasons why the villagers had chosen those living ways.Choices of living ways also produce the different results to the ecological environment. This article has selected the Hancheng and the Chaoyi for examples, and demonstrates that the different living way's choices Produce the different environmental effects. It showed in the Hancheng that the villagers open up the wooded mountain which leaded to the reduction of forest; and it showed in the Chaoyi that the change of operating practices of Hui People and Han People leaded to the change of ecological environment in the Shayuan area.According to the analysis on The West Region of The North Yellow River, we can see that the survival choice of villagers who lived in the areas beyond the interval and the interval also has the multiplicity facing the environment unstable as well as environment's region difference. And the choice of living ways also had produced either harmonious or not the harmonious results with the environment. So we should have comprehensive, rational manner about the relations between person and environment.