Tang Dynasty In Guanzhong Area Floods And Droughts And The Government Response Strategy Of Mutual Relations

The Tang Dynasty was the peak of China's feudal society, feudal economy developed to a new height, Guanzhong area as the capital of it, its position is extremely important. The floods and droughts in this area occurred very frequently. Scholars have done a lot of statistics and analysis of it. But for different research purpose and the information used, the previous researches led to variety of results. This has caused many unfavorable to us. This article based on broadened historical data, recounted the floods and droughts in Guanzhong area, and reached a new conclusion. At the same time, the related researches on Tang Government's strategy responding to disaster were also so many. Some were the researches on the whole famine relief system, some were researched one or some measure of it. However, more results for the Government's response were positive or negative attitude, small results divided into two viewpoints to research. This article did a comprehensive evaluation and analysis to the Tang Government's strategy of respond to disaster. So far, the research on the interactive relationship between Tang's disaster and the Government's rescues strategy was so little, almost none. In this sense, this article is worth while.This article could introduce into three ports on the whole. The first is profile of the floods and droughts. Analyzed the reason for the formation, distribution rule and its effect; The second is the Government's strategy, including pre-disaster prevention, mid-disaster salvation and post-disaster relief. And on this basis, the latter part briefly analyzed its administration system. The third is the relationship between Tang's disaster and the Government's rescues. As follow:The first chapter is introduction. This part briefly introduced the topic selection, scope definition, the present research achievements about the academic field, and the fundamental ideas, contents and methods.The second chapter, this part did classified statistic on the floods and droughts in Guanzhong area, and analyzed its distribution and affect. The drought in Guanzhong area in the annual distribution show:more in the early and middle Tang, less in the late Tang, and have the obvious period of high and stable phenomenon of alternate; In the monthly distribution,the later spring and summer is the high-incidence season., and continuous drought is badly. The flood in Guanzhong area in the annual distribution show:high in front and back, low in middle. In the monthly distribution, occurred more in summer and autumn, particularly in lunar July and August. So frequently floods and droughts gave great influence on agriculture, security of people's lives and property, traffic, mentality of victims and the environment of Guanzhong area.The third chapter, used the method "One divides into two", the part made objective analysis on the Government's strategy to respond to disasters and their effects. Talked from the Tang people's view about disaster, found that agriculture thought, people thought, scourge of disaster was the idea background of Tang government actively replied disasters. And on this basis, this part analyzed Tang Government's concretely measure in the whole disaster.(early, middle and late disaster)Then analyzed the Government's administration system. Form this, we can find that, although that measure has improved the sad sight after disaster in a great extent, limitations of its starting point led to bad actual effect.The fourth chapter, based on the two preceding chapters, this part analyzed the interactive relations between them. On the one hand, the floods and droughts caused the Government's measure. On the other hand, the frequent floods and droughts caused the Government to adopt more effective measure to respond. In addition, the Government's measure based on the floods and droughts and in turn influenced its decrease or growth.