The Study Of Bashu Vernacular Castles In Jiaqing Era

Thousands of vernacular castles in bashu earth still remains.These historical heritage is resisting Mongolia since song dynasty and yuan dynasty to Sichuan,escape war and bandits and built up.White lotus society,the qing dynasty jiaqing years in east Sichuan riot is a lot of village fort built east of the jiaqing river of direct impetus.At the beginning of the white lotus society uprising,this area squire people learn “built village run away from social upheaval” the historical experience of building village fort, drill hole to protect themselves, to build some of the stockade.Later, the qing government ordered the widely around the walled city, known as “emptying,build village yong ying”, so the original spontaneous built fort village behavior become the country’s repair village, bulk sample practice group of unified action. Built for the most, the village fort to clan has built a family, a great name built, built with several big name; For rural grassroots construction time, the village construction, village construction, and state building.For in the meantime, the white lotus society forces also occupied many village, away from the control of the squire and the people, also has is to teach the building base their walled city. The city village is often the Puritan both sides compete for important goals.White lotus society after the riots, the area of the village, there is still no completely ruined. Each encounter conflict, such as the taiping heavenly kingdom movement, li blue riots,warlords and small bandits,within the scope of these village fort once again into the local refuge.Fort to peace, most of the village were abandoned,only a small number of fort village is still being used, or transformed into family ancestral, or renovated into places of worship, or transformed into school buildings,or reserved for residents of housing. Fort in today, the village is the important cultural tourism resources in an area.