The Study On Planting Fruit Trees In The Taihu Lake Region During Ming And Qing Dynasties

Ming and Qing Dynasties is an important stage, during which the planting got remarkable development. To understand the development of fruit trees planting in Ming and Qing Dynasties is very useful to research of social and economic history. Taihu Lake Region has always been an important area for its advantageous natural conditions and social conditions in China, which has a decisive status in structure of the national fruit trees planting, so the planting of fruit trees in these areas have the study of representative. However, the related academic research is still lack of professional research.In Ming and Qing Dynasties, the fruit trees planting have a great variety and a more outstanding quality on the basis development of previous generation in Taihu Lake Region. This period of Taihu Lake region have bayberry, citrus, loquat, plum, peach and other fruit trees, these trees formed a number of good varieties in the process of planting, such as Dark Plum, crystal bayberry, water chestnuts, white flesh loquat, Tangqi loquat, honey peach and other varieties.The early Ming Dynasty, the planting scale of citrus gradually expand, mid-Ming because of the frequent snow damage, market competition and reallocation of labor resources and other factors, plant area has been reduced. Ming and Qing Dynasties Bayberry breeding using selection, tiller, etc. Bayberry planting good economic returns, high value, as well as antifreeze properties better than the citrus, planting area from Suzhou Dongting Mountain and Zhejiang Kuaiji Mountain gradually expanded to Suzhou Guangfu town, Wuxi Maji Mountain, Hangzhou and Jiaxing nearby the hills and mountains. Loquat planting not only in this period the number of planting development and production has been, with the expansion of planting area, also formed the famous white flesh loquat and Tangqi loquat varieties. This period of peach, plum and other fruit trees planting in varying degrees of scale expansion of fruit growing region more widely distributed than the previous generation, planting area and output are given a more substantial increase.The planting scale of fruit trees expanded significantly with different degrees in addition to individual species, fruit planting areas more widely distributed than the previous generation, planting area and output are given a more substantial increase. The development of fruit trees in Taihu Lake Region in Ming and Qing Dynasties is not only with the improvement of fruit planting technology, but benefited a lot from roaring development of city and town, competitive gardens and parks building, encouragement and guidance of economic policy for fruit trees planting, they really made a difference in the stable development of fruit trees at that time. Fruit trees planting on the current development of the region have gardening reference. Fruit trees planting on the current development of the region have gardening reference, planting fruit trees in order to optimize the structure of market-oriented, enhance garden of fruit trees’ infrastructure, increase technical support to the advantages of variety, improve the policy support system for planting fruit trees, promote the development of the planting on fruit trees.