Space Research Of Taigu County From Ming And Qing Dynasties To The Republic Of China

Taigu country,formerly known as “Yangyi”,is located in the middle of Shanxi Province.It is now a county under the jurisdiction of Jinzhong City and in the middle of Fenhe River Valley.It is the only way for southern Shanxi to lead to Beijing,Taiyuan to southern Shanxi and central China.In the fourth year of Jiande in the Northern Zhou Dynasty(476),the government was moved here,which was the beginning of Taigu ancient city.Taigu enjoys convenient transportation since ancient times,developed commerce and finance in Ming and Qing Dynasties,and is praised as "jintaigu","little Beijing" and "dry dock".Taigu city is a typical representative of the counties in North China since Ming and Qing Dynasties,and its urban spatial structure has certain representativeness.Taigu’s urban form and spatial structure had been finalized in Ming and Qing Dynasties,showing a high degree of continuity and stability.Therefore,this paper selects the ancient city of Taigu as the research object,and uses the historical geography theory and the folk literature methodology to explore the development and evolution process of the internal space structure of Taigu since the Ming and Qing Dynasties,in order to provide historical reference for the planning and development of Taigu cultural city.Taigu superior natural environment conditions for the rise and development of taigu provides the necessary material basis and guarantee.Since the Ming and qing dynasties,the overall spatial pattern and the adjustment and change of the inner functional area of taigu city were affected by the natural and social economic factors.One too gokseong political spatial pattern of change in the city and provincial political institutions represented increased to build and expand,the military defense,waterproof,and population increased is the city the main reasons behind the building and expansion,and the expansion of the scale of county government and perfect due to the Ming and qing dynasties since more and more complete system of city construction.Arrived early in the qing dynasty,with the development of the TaiGu commodity economy,the economic spatial pattern of change in the city expansion and extension of commercial stores distribution: TaiGu of Ming dynasty and the commercial shops to things the street of the city as the main distribution area,since the qing dynasty republic of China,as well as the city business district has been extended to south street southwest and northwest regions.From TaiGu cultural institutions distribution characteristic of the city,mainly temple temple and school education institutions,people used to worship and to accept cultural education,due to the influence of the traditional construction system of ancient China,there have been large-scale,the Ming dynasty are mainly distributed in the southeast area in the city,in the republic of China in the qing dynasty,because the TaiGu businessman’s rise and the development of commodity economy and the diversity of people of faith,other area also have new cultural institutions in the city,but mainly concentrated in the southeastern region.