A Primary Research On The Urban Geography At Yu Dong Area In Qing Dynasty

The town system of Yu Dong area in Qing Dynasty further improved on base of Ming Dynasty,and the scale of the city has not increased obviously in the trend just a few cities has been slightly expangded.The city basically all experienced construction,re-h abilitation,plus repair,alteration and other processes.The Yu Dong towns external mor phology were primarily in square because of the traditional philosophy,ritual,terrain,t-chnology factors’imfact.The county was mainly composed of government office,sac-rificial temple,cultural and educational organizations,and it showed a certain regulari-ty in the layout.According to the functional division,the Yu Dong towns had political, business,military,traffic four categories,including the maximum number of commerci-al town. The towns were mostly along station road and river both sides,some of the more prosperous towns were mostly in the water and land transportation hub,and the water,land transportation was more developed.The distribution of the Yu Dong towns were affected by economic development and geographical environment, but also by t-he transportation and other factors. From the regional distribution,we find that the Qi-ng Dynasty Yu Dong towns’ distribution were strongly affected by the radiation of the political center city, keeping consistent with the political center, only few far from the town developed without a political center radiation. The Yu Dong towns in Qing Dyn-asty had some futues which were stage,time and space imbalance,and the towns econ-omic trend varied wavily. From the statistics,the speed of Yu Dong towns’recovery a-nd development was higher than the average level of Henan market towns.