The Research And Collation Of Descriptive Text Of Offense And Defense In Gansu Garrison

Descriptive Text of Offense and Defense in Gansu Garrison,now collected in Taipei Palace Museum,is the representative of the Ming Dynasty painted border defense map.In the twenty-third year of Jiajing,Gansu Garrison was attacked from front to back and became the key area of offense and defense of the three sides of shaanxi.In order to defend the northwest territories,under the unified regulations of the department of Ministry of War,and under the coordination and organization of the Shaanxi Right Military Governor’s Mansion,the provincial minister of Gansu Garrison submitted Descriptive Text of Offense and Defense in Gansu Garrison,with the defense of the garrison as the theme.Under the defense strategy,on the one hand,the author mainly shows the military fortifications centered on the Great Wall by means of intensive ink and color and directional adjustment,and on the other hand,he consciously brings the Fan and Turpan into the offense and defense system of Gansu Garrison through selective text mark in the picture and a large length of narration.At the same time,from the perspective of divided defense areas,the 13 independent drawings are related to each other,which breaks the isolation in geographical space and realizes the integration in military zone.As one of the nine garrisons of the Ming Dynasty,the military defense of Gansu Garrison can be regarded as a case epitome of the frontier offense and defense situation in the middle period of the Ming Dynasty,and at the same time,it embodies the defensive characteristics of the northwest border area.Descriptive Text of Offense and Defense in Gansu Garrison also includes Atlas of Territories and People of the Western Regions and Commentary on Territories and People of the Western Regions.Atlas of Territories and People of the Western Regions and Commentary on Territories and People of the Western Regions,are pictorial works with the theme of showing the landscape of the Western Regions in the Ming Dynasty,which have documentary value for the study of the Silk Road in the Ming Dynasty.This illustration has not been handed down in a separate edition,and it is mostly seen in the Northwest Frontier Maps and Books of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.In the middle period of Jiajing,Jiayu Pass became a boundary line.The scholars of the Ming Dynasty reflected and summarized the experience of governing the Western Regions in the Han and Tang Dynasties through quotation and copying.It is included in the Descriptive Text of Offense and Defense in Gansu Garrison,which contains a beautiful vision of defending the fence of the northwest.