Study On The Upper Reaches Of The Huaihe River Basin During The Ming And Qing Dynasties

The upstream of the Huaihe river is studied in the Artical from huai the source of Huaihe river to Sanhe jian.This area contains two parts----Huainan area and the Huaihe river upstream plain,?the complex political change happened in this area in history?the yuan dynasty namely Runing allot the upstream of Huaihe river to the same administrative zones the Ming and Qing dynasties inherited the administrative division,so in the upstream of Huaihe river is the composition of the administrative region and nature area.the upstream of Huaihe river survived dozens of chorography in the Ming and Qing dynasties.During read the chorography of the region,a variety of "Jizhenzhi" items and contents leads to an important market town name called "shop".By analyzing the relation of several towns and "shop" and the source of "shop",known "shop" play a important role in the name of market town.Only analysis all market town correctly was carried out on the relationship of shop and market,it is concluded that the market town of data is more reasonable.the chorography of the region,government's record copy the former again and again,the unbalanced number of chorography in north and south of Huaihe river take direct effect on the analysis of both sides' county.Words Exists in the chorography such as "abolished","existed","disabled" and "new" and some other words not only can get more accurate data of the town,more can see changes of the number of the market town in different dynasties.The author based on the analysis of the above statistics and get the market town data of 14 counties in the region.On the basis of market town TAB,firstly,the author pick up four periods----the time of Jiawan,Shunzhi,Kangqian,the late of Qing,analyze the characteristics of the development of the regional market town.from the large dimension,the number of the regional market town changes obviously,specific changes in each county have each characteristic.Secondly,the paper analyzes the forms of the regional market town,divided into "every day","every other day" and "monthly",no matter what forms,they all follow the day the market participants settled called "appointed day".Finally,the author pick up three aspects like water,terrain,mountain chain and respectively discusses the spatial distribution characteristics of the market town in the upstream areas of the Huaihe river,from the horizontal point of view,the distributionof the market town in mountain areas is very uneven,mostly in low hills and near main traffic roads and relatively low hills,which flat.But it is balanced in plain area.The distribution of "major town" take more advantage in water transport than land.From the longitudinal time point of view,the development of type mountain counties faster than plain county.As the boundary between three provinces of the Dabie mountains,due to cross-border traffic and trade advantages,also developed a number of market towns,which is one of the features of the local market town.