Ming Dynasty Guangzhou Government To Deal With Floods And Social Research

Ming Dynasty Guangzhou government flood-prone areas, especially in the lateMing Dynasty, with the Guangzhou government regional development, economic andsocial access to development, the gradual destruction of the ecological environment,floods occur more frequently, to the then small farmers economic, social stability andpeople’s lives and have brought great impact. In this paper, the statistical system nextgeneration, there is a case floods from time distribution point of view, mainly in thesummer; from spatial distribution,the floods occurred mainly in southern Guangzhougovernment areas.Closely related disasters Guangzhou government’s topographical features,weather conditions and other natural factors, but human social activity is caused byimproper important factor frequent occurrence of natural disasters. Guangzhou FuMing Dynasty rapid economic development, metallurgy, shipbuilding and otherindustrial development, population growth rate determining, a large number of fieldshad been cleared out, economic development inevitably led to a destruction of theecological environment, coupled with corruption in officialdom was to weaken thegovernment of Guangzhou resilience. The article also from the perspective of regionaleconomic history and social history of the region, for example in Zengcheng Countyexplore the Ming Dynasty Qing Dynasty Guangzhou government than a more seriouscause flooding. Floods caused great impact on the Ming Guangzhou government,other disasters exacerbated by floods induced destructive, such as the agriculturaleconomy has brought destruction, serious consequences of population casualties,property damage, social unrest and so on. Floods also have a significant impact on thegovernment of Guangzhou Ming Dynasty ritual and belief, the official attempted toworship the God of Nanhai, boat altar, altar and other mountains bless situationthunderstorm weather, reduce flooding and its impact; folk Mazu belief, Guanyinbelief, faith dragon, the dragon Faith is also the mother of the people to pray and toreduce the impact of floods in an activity.And the peasant economy faced severe flooding hit under the victims life,social conflict, the Ming Guangzhou government has taken many measures to dealwith. If, before the floods, a large embankment built to prevent the occurrence offloods; while a large variety of warehouse construction, such as preparing positions,often unwinding after floods disaster preparation. After the floods, the governmenttook measures such as pension, Juan-free relief loans and other rescue victims; civilgentry under the government’s encouragement relief also played an important role inthem through soup kitchens relief rice donated Xiudi, the Su Ping, buy us, and so tohelp affected people.