Haiyan Seawall In Zhejiang Province And Local Social Economy In Ming Dynasty

HaiYan county in ZheJiang province is the victimized area of tidal damage because ofits special geographical environment. The tidal damage in HaiYan county had someCharacteristics in the Ming Dynasty: it occurrenced frequently; the disaster situation wasserious; the influences were widespread and so on. In view of the HaiYan county's tidaldamage, the government authorities of the Ming Dynasty constructed the SeaWallvigorously.In the Ming Dynasty, The HaiYan county's SeaWall had great progresses in the SeaWall structure and the shore protection project. In the Sea Wall structure, it experienced fromthe earth Sea Wall to the Stone's; than "potuo Sea Wall","the type Sea Wall" and finallyformed "five vertical and five horizontal big stone Sea Walls". In the shore protectionengineering aspect, it formed the construction earth Sea Wall, the dense nail wooden Chinesetoon, opened cutting prepared the Sea Wall river and so on, those were series of completeSea Wall protection techniques,it made good effects in reducing the wave and protecting thebase of wall.In order to pay the large amount fund which the construction of HaiYan SeaWall needed,the government authorities of Ming Dynasty raised the project money through the multi-stripway liked adding land taxes, leaving balance of the government daily disbursement and so on,and they carded on the system innovation, the JiaXing government officer XuLin establishedand carried out the "the Sea Wall-silver" system which gradually consummated. Throughthese series of measures, the fund supply for the construction of HaiYan SeaWall wasguaranteed in the Ming Dynasty.In addition, the HaiYan SeaWall obtained high achievement in each project managementaspects, for example, the fund, the materials, the manpower, the daily maintenance and so on.The Ming Dynasty central authorities made the project to construct having the plan and thefeasibility through strengthen unification management in the HaiYan SeaWall work, and thatbecame important guarantee of the SeaWall work succeeds. The mainly HaiYan SeaWallofficers were unceasing changed, that effectively overcame the contradiction of the officialpower and specialized faculty which the administrative authority had. The establishment of Sea Wail "the thousand-character classic" management way, caused unification of the SeaWail the construction and the management, realization macroscopic and the microscopic,thus helping to enhance the HaiYan SeaWall work from the whole the qualities and thebenefits. In the fund management, establishing accurate and the thorough project fundbudget, strict and the highly effective fund revenue and expenditure control system. In themanpower and materials management, raising the engineering material through the multi-strip way which the SeaWall work needed, and paid more attention to manpower andmaterials quality management and transportation. In the manpower management aspect, tookwidth-strict aided, taked a series of effective actions to enhance their work enthusiasm andthe sense of responsibility, to construction creation important condition for HaiYan SeaWallwork success. In the HaiYan county Sea Wail routine maintenance aspect, the Ming Dynastygovernment is equipped with the special official to manage the HaiYan SeaWail's routinemaintenance. In addition, in HaiYan county, they also established the special Sea Wall dailymaintenance system, such as "Jiannianlizhang" and "Shidigongbang".The Ming Dynasty HaiYan SeaWall promoted the HaiYan county's agriculture and thesalt industry development at that time, it had vital role to maintain the locai sociai economysecurity and stably play to the national economy.At the same time, the HaiYan county has formed with the SeaWall construction closecorrelation unique sacrificial offering activity, mainly to "Donghaishenci"and"Yangxianshici" sacrificial offering, and formed the Sea Wail constructor culture in thisfoundation, provides the formidable spiritual power for the construction of HaiYan SeaWall.