明代山西北部聚落变迁

明代,山西长城沿线卫所、关隘、堡寨、墩台星罗棋布,形成了独特的人文地理景观———军事聚落,随着清代的一统,大部分则逐渐演化为城镇和村落。本文对该区域军事聚落的形成、发展以及变迁进行了历史考察,认为明清时期是山西北部历史上聚落形成和发展的繁荣时期,这与明代军事聚落的形成与发展有着非常密切的关系。

Change of Inhabitation Places in the North of Shanxi In the Ming Dynasty

In the Ming Dynasty, garrison stations, passes, forts and beacon towers along the Great Wall in the border of Shanxi spread all over the place and formed a distinctive landscape of humane geography-military inhabitation places. By the uniting of the Qing Dynasty, large part of them gradually evolved into towns and villages. The paper perspected the forming ,development and evolution of military inhabitation in the area from historical point of view. It thought the Ming and Qing Dynasty were prosperous period of inhabitations’ forming and developing in the north of Shanxi, this situation was in close relation to forming and developing of military inhabitation places in the Ming Dynasty.