The Social Transformation and the Reshaping of Regional Spatial Structure:Taking the Villages Distribution Changes in Huizhou-Tunxi Area in the Middle of Ming Dynasty as an Example
With the emergence of social transformation opportunities in the mid-Ming Dynasty,the commodity economy in JiangNan and other places had become increasingly active,and the relationship be-tween man and land was also becoming increasingly tense,which had affected its land use and regional de-velopment models,consequently,the spatial structure of some areas such as Huizhou had begun to change.During this period,the regional system of dozens of villages centered on Tunxi had been strengthened be-cause they gradually formed the unified market circle in the XiuShe-Basin.By the temporal and spatial mea-surement statistics of relevant literature,we found that the Tunxi Villages in the mid-Ming Dynasty showed a differentiated distribution pattern of villages that densely located in river valleys and sparsely located in hills after a long period of change,and the development process had distinct temporal and spatial hierarchies.Dur-ing the reign of Emperor Jiajing and Emperor Wanli,a large number of villages in the Tunxi hilly areas be-gan to be recorded in the local chronicles.It shows that the spatial structure of the villages had been re-shaped.This result is a manifestation of the dual role of natural and human environment,simultaneously,it is also a concrete manifestation of the social transformation brought about by the development of external com-modity economy on the small environment of regional society.
social transformationregional spatial structureHuizhou-Tunxivillagesman-land rela-tionship
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