Local Society And War In North And East Sichuan In The Middle And Late Ming Dynasty

This paper discusses the relationship between local wars and local society from the background of the chaos of Yan Lan,the process of unrest and the restoration after the war.In the middle and late Ming Dynasty,under the historical background of eunuch dictatorship and refugees,the people led by zaoding in eastern Sichuan and Northern Sichuan suffered from natural disasters,and because of their unique geographical location,they became the first place and gathering place of local wars in Sichuan,among which Yan Lan’s rebellion was the representative.The chaos of Yan Lan,which was suppressed and appeased by the Ming government,took seven years to subside.During this period,local governments,represented by local officials,built walls,actively defended and worked hard to maintain local order.Then they applied to strengthen defence works,people retreated to the mountain,and built strongholds together.The individual loyalty,filial piety and martyrdom in the war fully show the coping strategies of civil society,and reflect the choices and survival ways of people with different identities in the turbulent pattern.After the war,the Ming government attached great importance to spiritual construction and ignored economic recovery and development.With the deepening of the original social contradictions,the eastern Sichuan and Northern Sichuan areas are again in the war.The chaos of Yan Lan became the rehearsal and epitome of the large-scale peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.The interaction between war and regional environment should not be ignored.In this paper,the tiger as a starting point,from the rise and cruel and avert to eliminate the interaction between war and regional environment,and to explore the strength of different governments’ local control after the war.