From The Ecological Geography And Economic Geography Of The Warring States Period, The City's Prosperity

Unprecedented prosperity in the city appeared in the Warring States period. One situation was the economic functions greatly developed based on the original political center; the other was that many cities appeared with the economic commercial functions.City's prosperity in the Warring States period was on the basic conditions of excellent ecological environment., The geographical location of commercial city usually had fertile soil, abundant water, rich in resources and products, combined with iron tools and the promotion of cattle farming, a large area of land cultivated, making the rapid development of agricultural production, eventually led to economic development and the expansion of urban scale and function; improvements to the ecological environment, making large-scale water conservancy and irrigation systems played a major role; water and land transportation systems provided a favorable conditions for the current of mining, forestry, fisheries, animal husbandry and handicraft products, these had become an important factor in urban development in Warring States period.The enormous changes had taking place in the process of economic, political and cultural unity in Warring States period. The regime's ecological economy management function has been greatly developed during this period, which can be summed up as follows: building canals and irrigation systems on the base of rich resource originally, formulating and invocating strict laws of ecological environment. These activities not only had a significant historical meaning to the ecological development, but also changed the economic, political, and cultural conditions, making the substantial growth in city sprung up. The urban population, the cities' size and shape increased and commodity developed, convenient traffic system formatted, making a prosperity view in early China. At that time a number of books such as "Yu Gong", "Guanzi", "Lv's Chunqiu" and other works described systematic theory of the ecological environment. These practice laid the foundation for development and prosperity for the city after Qin and Han Dynasty.Finally, with the convenient transportation and excellent geographical location and a good foundation of agriculture and favorable economic environment, Xian yang developed rapidly, combined with economic, political, cultural, and military functions in a cluster, which became one of the conditions of the emperor Qinshihuang to unite six countries to one regime.