A Study On City Location Of Wudu Prefecture And Its Belonging Counties In The Han Dynasty

The paper mainly describes on city location of Wudu Prefecture and itsbelonging county in Han dynasty as the research object,so the geographic scope ofthe study can also be in BaiLong river basin,and in the upper reaches of JiaLingriver,and in XiHan river basin.Including LongNan city in GanSun Province exceptWenXian county, parts of LiXian county,DieBu county and ZhouQu county inGanNan city,and LueYang county and parts of Fenxian county in sounth of ShanXiprovince. WuDu Prefecture in Han dynasty included nine counties: WuDu, ShangLu,JiaLing, XiaBian, HeChi, GuDao, PingLe, XunCheng and Ju.In DongHandynasty,JiaLing county,PingLe county and XunCheng county were asundered formWuDu prefecture, so DongHan dynasty included seven counties: WuDu, ShangLu,XiaBian, HeChi, GuDao, Ju and QiangDao.This paper consists of five chapters in total.The first chapter mainly introducesLongNan city in GanSu’s geographical postion,natural environment characteristicsand its military strategic position. It analyzes why Han dynasty set up WuDuprefecture form environment angle, its traffic, tradesides, and its historicalinevitability. And this paper briefly discusses the history of WuDu county, WuDuprefecture and the state of WuDu regime in the area of the setup time, as well as to therelevant facts.The second chapter focuses on the textual research the capital of WuDuprefecture in Han dynasty,and make relatively detailed reconnaissance survey on thesite of its old relics.It analyzes the reason why the capital of WuDu prefecture waschanged position in XiHan dynasty and DongHan dynasty, and the differencesbetween Xian and Dao.In the third chapter,under the jurisdiction of the county as the main researchobject in XiHan dynasty and DongHan dynasty, it makes a systematic research on thefour counties, ShangLu, HeChi, GuDao and Ju, and makes the clear location about thefour counties. The fourth chapter mainly studies the sites under the jurisdiction of WuDuprefecture in XiHan dynasty, and DongHan dynasty, and studies JiaLing Dao, PingLeDao, XunCheng Dao, Qiang Dao, the four counties’sites in detail. It partiy correctsthe long miscarriage of justice on the four sites.The fifth chapter analyzes the spatial distribution characteristics of WuDuprefecture in Han dynasty.It shows that WuDu prefecture in XiHan dynasty andDongHan dynasty had the same common siting principles as the central plain regionat the same time,and also had thedifferent characteristics.Accoeding to this research, it can make it clear an area in the period of the Handynasty prefectures and county system enolution, and the sites of the ancint city ofdistributin changing. It also can provide accurate gepgraphical spqce to the culturealand hiatorical research in this area, and also has very important practicalsigniticance on tourism planning and administrative divison adjustment. Inaddition,ithas the academic significance on historical records, previous research that hasvalidated, traps and correcting errors.