A Discussion of the Vegetation along the Traffic Routes and the Distribution of Karst Rocky Desertification within Guizhou Province in the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty
Based on local gazettes,travel journals and memorials to the throne,this article attempts to reconstruct the distribution and change in vegetation along the main roads within Guizhou Province from the perspective of people walking through them.It also aims to find the traces of rocky desertification recorded in the above mentioned literature based on three inferences：1,the comparison of today＇s description of the appearance of rocky desertification to that recorded in history;2,consideration for the physical conditions of that could lead to the occurrence of rocky desertification;3,a comparison of ancient distributions of rocky desertification with today＇s distributions.These explorations suggest a conclusion that karst rocky desertification has existed in Anshun,Zhen＇ning,Liuzhi,Panxian,Pu＇an and other several counties since the late Ming Dynasty.
Ming DynastyGuizhou ProvinceKarst Rocky Desertificationvegetation
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