Study On The Development And Levels’ Situation Of Wanjiang Basin’s Market-town During Ming And QingDynasty (Jiajing-Daoguang)

From late Ming dynasy,the commerce and trade along the Yangtze River is prosperous.But the farming social environment of Wanjiang Basin did not change:Emphasizing agriculture in social customs and "Rice" as the main economic structure,which determines the path choice of regional economic development.As the most active areas in Anhui Province,in this paper,the development and levels’situation of the market-town is based on the background of this era.In a long period,the market-town of Wanjiang Basin experienced some stages:the germination before Tang and Song dynasty,the initial rasing in the late Ming dynasty,the destruction of the war from Ming to Qing dynasty,the recovery and rapid growth in the early period of the Qing dynasty and smooth growth in the middle of Qing dynasty.The growth trend is very obvious.From the spatial variation,the east area and along the line of Wanjiang Basin is the concentrated zone of the market-town distribution,mountains and hilly areas are relatively sparse.Basing on the different geographical environment,the different social and economic development is the main reason.Inferred from the specific quantitative analysis:in late Ming dynasty,the development of Wanjiang Basin’s market-town is still relatively backward;to the early stage of Qing dynasty,the development of market-town had reached the national average leveral over the same period;to the middle of the Qing dynasty it is even higher the national average,belonging to developed area of commodity economy.Basing on the basic economic activities in this region-The rice trate to investigate,market-town hierarchy structure is very obvious:rural market-distributed town-central town.But comparated to the complete regional market netwok,the market-town system of Wanjiang Basin represented "area type" dispersion characteristics,composed of three patches-the southwest of Anhui(Anqing),Chaohu river basin(Luzhou,Hezhou),the south of Anhui(Taiping,Ningguo).The economic linking between the patches are very sparse.The regional market-town network system is still scattered.The main reasons are:the location of marginal area;identical single internal economic structure;dispersion of water system.