| This paper is the studies of the Tianzhou Chieftain’s armed called the Zhuang soldier in the Ming Dynasty.In the Ming Dynasty, with the gradual improvement chieftain system, the local officials of the Zhuang Region came into their best time. Among them, particularly in western Guangxi, also called the two-river area where had the most powerful Chieftain forces, that is due to the Chieftain had owned a local military armed, called Tu Bing bloc. Meanwhile, the soldier of Zhuang was as the tool for the Ming empire to complete the task called "barbarian attack mutually" and "barriers within the county", rather than just as the Chieftain’s arms to ensure itself to exist, continuation and development.In the Ming Dynasty, Tianzhou has the superior natural conditions, which is surrounded by the strong Zhuang Chieftain, for example the Sien, Sicheng, Zhenan, Donglan, and its location is prominent,because it is the hub of the road to Yunnan, Guizhou and the Vietnam. It is described as "a valley between two mountains", which the Youjiang through, has the convenient waterway, bringing the military and economic advantage become obvious. This makes Tianzhou soldier had the opportunity to go down in the history. Jiajing, shocked Imperial court of the Cen Meng and the Lu&wang chaos, as well as the Mrs Valsalva fight the Japanese deeds, these great historical events which all have the Tianzhou soldier’s figure. Which can see the soldier "for the chaos", but also reflected in its "Patriotic", and at that time people have different appraisal include the praise and contempt on them, which will undoubtedly see Tianzhou soldier only as a microcosm of the soldier Group in the Zhuang Region.The studies on the Zhuang chieftain system already has one hundred years. However, the research of the Zhuang’s soldier has been very weak, mainly study in terms of its origins, name, nature, military activities, the historical influences and so on, moreover the major is separate sexual elaborate, but the lack is relatively structured discussion. Meanwhile, the former researcher mainly from the overall perspective to study the Zhuang’s soldier, and more focus to analyze macro aspects, but less attention on the differences over the various regions Zhuang’s soldier. In this paper, the Tianzhou soldier is as a single point to study, if it has more of the academic results of several similar studies, the entire status of the Zhuang’s soldier would not difficult to delineate.Articles starts from special geographical and cultural environment of the Tianzhou, to analyze the reason and background of the rise of the Zhuang’s soldier; then from the Zhuang’s soldier’s military service, art of war, weapon, rewards and punishments, soldier’s duty, and other aspect, to analyze its military mechanism; followed by Tianzhou soldier experienced the different of military activities, through it to see the operation mechanism status of military, in which to explore the role played by the Zhuang’s soldier; Finally, we discuss the ending of the Tianzhou soldier, along with the conflicts between the Chieftain and the Dynasty, and the wars consumption, ethnic blend and other influent factors to make it go downhill. Throughout the Tianzhou soldier’s rise, peak, decline in the longitudinal development trajectory, adopt writing style of troops system structure, taking into account the Ming court strengthen its rule and Chieftain system further improvement, to explore the operational and deployment mechanisms of the Zhuang’s soldier, as well as its influence. Meanwhile, I went deep into the old haunt of Tianzhou somewhere is called Bama Yao Autonomous County and Tianyang, to conduct field surveys about the military relics and historical documents material, through them to explore historical causes of Mrs. Valsalva faith, to research the Zhuang’s soldier historical conduct, to tap the Zhuang’s soldier’s of historical significance and military culture, and reflect the social ecology of the Ming Dynasty in Zhuang Chieftain locations. |
