The Qing dynasty was a famous"period of frequent disasters"in Chinese history.Due to the frequent occurrence of natural disasters,the establishment of the government's famine relief system,granary system and the improvement of social governance system have also emerged.At the same time,the construc-tion of the whole society's famine relief coordination mechanism tended to be standardization,systematiza-tion and institutionalization.The essence of frontier governance is that the state hopes that regional gover-nance and grass-roots governance will be stable and orderly,which is not only in line with the state's guide-lines and policies for managing frontier,but also serves the fundamental interests of the state.The purpose of the Qing imperial court implemented famine relief mechanisms was also to achieve this.To the greatest ex-tent,the construction of the famine relief mechanism met this requirement in Yunnan and Guizhou region in the Qing Dynasty,thus promoted the national identity,political identity and cultural identity of the public in the southwest frontier region,and objectively improving the level of the Qing imperial court's frontier man-agement and the ability to cope with natural disasters.
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