As a sharp weapon to help livestock resist the cold wave on the grassland,the shed is not only the living space of livestock,but also the production space of human beings.Its construction and utiliza-tion not only reflect the management of farmers and herdsmen on the livestock environment and livestock space,but also reflect the development and changes of livestock production mode and pastoral society.Dur-ing the period of the Republic of China,the eastern part of Inner Mongolia gradually formed a diversified economic region of agricultural areas,mixed farming and animal husbandry areas and pure pastoral areas.Under this social background,the number of sheds in the vast animal husbandry production areas gradually increased,and different regions gradually explored a variety of models to adapt to the local animal husband-ry production environment in terms of location,construction,utilization and management of sheds,The con-struction and management of livestock sheds in some areas are more integrated into the concept and technol-ogy of livestock sheds in inland agricultural areas,which not only reflects the multiple interaction between people,livestock and grassland environment,but also reflects the new changes of traditional animal husband-ry production mode and pastoral society in Inner Mongolia to a certain extent.
Eastern Inner Mongolialivestock shed circlelivestock environmentRepublic of China Periodhistorical geography