A Study On Political Geography Of JingZhou In The East Jin And Southern Dynasty

This paper is to analyze the political geography of JingZhou (荆州) including XiangZhou(湘州) YingZhou (郢州) YongZhou (雍州) after the East Jin dynasty.During the last years of the West Jin dynasty and the East Jin dynasty,refugee migration, intrusion of the northern regime and expedition to the northern part of the East Jin dynasty,all led directly to the expansion of JingZhou’s realm,thus affect the changs of the division of administrative regions.In order to declare the legality of its political powers and to recover lost ground and to solve the problem of population evacution flow,the Eastern Jin dynasty set up many QiaoZhouJunXian (侨州郡县) in JingZhou.Most of QiaoZhouJunXian were located in the northern region,which highlights the importance of the political geography of the region.In order to take advantage of its ethnic group,the East Jin government set up the military government in XiangYang (襄阳) area.Laters,the transfer of governing power between various political forces reflects the changes in the political situation of the region.During this era,two set and two waste for XiangZhou,the result depends on the result of "the contention of JingZhou and YangZhou (扬州)".The beginning years of the Song dynasty,witnesses the gradual stablity of JingZhou’s realm.To arrange for emigrants,woo YongZhou’s powers,resist the northern regime,restrain JingZhou’s local power,the central government turned military government into state agencies. So the last generations do not chang it.Two waste and three set for XiangZhou,also carved up JingZhou and XiangZhou for YongZhou in the Song dynasty.The main purpose is to achieve a political end for restraining JingZhou by taking advantage of the particular political geography of YongZhou.In addition,YongZhou’s the unique shape of "spindle" played a defense strategy for JingZhou and YongZhou.In the conventionality division of administrative zones for JingZhou YingZhou YongZhou XiangZhou in the Qi dynasty,the emperor Gaodi of the Qi dynasty set up BaZhou (巴州).The establishment of BaZhou is to stablize the ruling order of the western regions in JingZhou.But after this region’s stablity,BaZhou namely waste.Because of the political geography factors,JingZhou YingZhou YongZhou XiangZhou is divided again.which leads to the weakening of power.Its local power is weaken further.Because of the fall of a large area.In the northern regions of MianShui river,Liang dynasty set up QiaoJunXian(侨郡县)in the southern regions of MianShui river for courting townshop group and diasporas.As the northern regions of the Yangtze river of the fall,XiangZhou’s geographical position has become increasingly important,to a certain extent,its substitues.JingZhou’s political status in the past four dynasties.In the East Jin dynasty and the Southern dynasty,many people have-been knighted in JingZhou,including XiangZhou YingZhou YongZhou after the East Jin dynasty.The setting and distribution of knighted possession not only concerned with political evolution,but also withnessed changes of the balance of power between central government.And the change of the power in each class and its political status is mostly reflected in the conferment.For example,middle and later of the East Jin dynasty,highgate cremation and humble family and lower cremation began to change.Because of friction and fight on the political interests between the imperial power and ZongWang(宗王)in the Southern dynasty,which made other family and forces to the rise in the political arena.The role of local despot and ethnic groups is changing in each dynasty’s political life.Conversely,the above situation also affects the number of conferment and conferment of distribution. At the same time,the central government of the East Jin dynasty also made use of the conferment and its distribution to seek their own political purposes.The time span of the research for the paper is from the end of the Eest Jin dynasty to KaiHuang nine years in the Sui dynasty,namely for the fall of the Chen dynasty.The realm and administrative regions of JingZhou XiangZhou YingZhou YongZhou in the Southern dynasty.Maily based on historical data,the article is to have a verification of realm changes and evolution of administrative regions,and give a clear sketch at the research of the administrative regions in all times by using graph,table.The tectual research method takes the parallelism literature in the record material as the main method,supplemented by archaeological materials.