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A Study Of The Northen Dynasties Cities In Shanxi Area

Posted on:2014-07-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F H YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330401962605Subject:History of Ancient China
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Between the Han and Tang Dynasties in Shanxi Province there are a large number of cities. Northern Wei took over the Central Plains and Zhou Qi discrete changes in the political situation, the great changes of the cities in Shanxi have taken place in all respects. In this paper, the city of the Northern Shanxi as the research object, put it in the long changing times in Northern Dynasties and the Shanxi area of this provision, combined with the space-time background, literature Annotations and archaeological research applications to discuss city distribution, appearance, function and trends. to deepen the understanding of the cities of Shanxi Area in the Northern Dynasties.The thesis is divided into an introduction, body and conclusion of three parts, of which the body is divided into four chapters. The introduction identified research and review the history of research, which presents how to define the proposition of the Northern Dynasties city and brought to the exposition of the text. The body of the first two chapters trying to understand how times’ changing and social interaction in Shanxi Area affect the local cities’changing through specific cases. The first chapter discuss the cities’ system change of Northern Wei and Jin to Ping City ages, and through the cities’constrnction of TuoBaXianBei before and after the use and construction of the city in the region to observe the role the city played in the process that northern ethnic establishment of the regime, pointing out special form that the Tuoba Xianbei in city construction:"form the Palace to the city" and build a new town and the coexistence of the old city, but also the side to see the northern ethnic factors in this period city aspects of:Hu language name of the cities appear. The secend chapter discuss Fen River region and traffic channel, to explore the social interaction from midstream Fen River to three different regions of the lower reaches, and basin Fen River cities’distribution and the close relationship with such social interaction.Tracking Luliang Mountain area, Jinyang Taiyuan Basin, along the Fen River downstream (including the Linfen basin east of the Huang river in the northern part) three different social and cultural areas,and local elites in the five to six centuries Trends. Different cultures make different elites into different situation, The war between them and the dynasty makes cities surrounding along the Fen River furtherly, This is reflected in the war led to the mountains cities municipal abandoned,more cities migrated to the plains,and war between Qi and Zhou dynasty makes the Fen River downstream coastal appeared more military cities. The third chapter discusses the Northern Shanxi urban form and population composition. Discussion of urban form and expand the size of the different cities and the urban landscape of the city of Shanxi in Northern Dynasty, mostly small-scale and tend to reflect the Wubi Castle in strong army of local urban inseparable from the town, and in the large city, the political palaces and Buddhist architecture occupies a geographical space, but also the most spectacular buildings in the city, the rulers in the top of the social pyramid in large city and get close relationship with religion. Analysis of the composition of the city population by the professional identity of the different types of city population study, confirms the Tanigawa Michio’s judgment about soldiers are the main citizen of the local city population, also found that the professional identity of the population in the Capital are huge less than the class differences situation. The final chapter focuses on the function of the city. Through the mode of city construction, pointing out that except for the the Northern Dynasties city construction have a strong military reasons, the political considerations of dynasty is the most important reason for city construction, the city’s main function is reflected in three parts:the defense,management people and play a political and military center. And the observation of the city’s historical continuity and identity changes, reflecting the the cities’functions’play is changing with the cities’political identity. Final discuss the wars around the city, pointed out that the military defense capabilities of the walls of is not a simple thing, it is much related to the cases about the both offensive and defensive sides.Overall, the local cities in Northern Dynasties has the following characteristics:a strong political and military nature, there are a large number of new cities including a large mumbers of new cities New, the raise and fall or the continually change of geographic position of cities, the trend of local cities became samller and much like a Wubi, palaces and religious buildings occupy an important position in the capital cities, much of those are located in the valley plain region,they are the characteristics of the cities in this period.commercial underdeveloped and the military town are the common trend of the city in a period of social unrest stage. The Shanxi local city are similar with Wubi Castle, the cities distributed in the valley plain make the trend more prominent, which is inseparable from the Shanxi region’s mountainous geographical features:during the war, there are many military Wubi Castle are built, but much more city become in the valley region because of the needs for using water and control more densely population there.In addition, during the discuss,the writer found that the biggest difference among the city,Wubi Castle, rural settlements is the political status.cities has the the political status such as capital political center and military town, they are the qualitative difference between Wubi Castle and no administrative intervention villages. In addition, the boundaries of the three get more fuzzy:a small and located city with a walled in precipitous terrain get no difference with the Wubi Castle, the names of these cities often are called a certain Wubi’s name,they have the nature of the Wubi Castle. Further, some of the abandoned cities may become a villages by the using of farmers. Therefore, undue prominence the differences for cities, villages, Wubi Castle, is not helpful to understand the social during Han and Tang Dynasties and the various settlements nature.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Northern Dynasty, Shanxi area, cities, Wubi Castle
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