Author(s): TIAN Zengtao, ZHAO Jing
Pages: 53-58
Year: 2015 Issue:  3
Journal: Relics and Museology
Keyword:  Backgrounds; Ideas; Building Methods; City Types;
Abstract: Most of the cities of ancient China well preserved and physically presented to the modern times are the cities of the Ming and Qing Dynasties constructed repeatedly and superposing one generation by one generation. To record and study these invaluable heritages are significantly meaningful for the destructions made by the intensive modern urban expansion. With the constructions of the cities of the fu (prefecture), zhou (department) and xian (county) hierarchies as the frame and the cities of the Ming and Qing Dynasties between the Great Wall and the Qinling Mountains-Huai River as the study objects, this paper drew the general principles on the building method, urban construction and layout of the cities of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in northern China through the onsite investigations to these cities located in Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan Provinces and with the references of the local historic documents (the gazetteers and chorographies of the prefectures and counties), and provided some basic clues for the preservative researches on the historic cities of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in all regions.