Regulate mountain and water policy: Environment protection thought of Qing dynasty research – Focus on Jiang-Jeh(江浙) and Hur-Guaang(湖廣) region

• Main Authors: sue-fen Wang, 王淑芬
• Other Authors: 莊吉發
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46111795111705480845

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 歷史研究所 === 91 === Due to overpopulated pressure, people in Jiang-Jeh(江浙) and Hur-Guaang(湖廣) region cultivated the land of lakeside and riverside, shoals, and remote hills and mountains. These cultivation actions change physical geographical terrain of China and not only causing rivers and lakes silted up and scaling forests down but also bring disadvantage of mudflows, blooding and lower production output. Facing this seriously ecological crisis, Qing emperor declared some bans and policies. About water management, he forbade people to cultivate lake lands and demolished illegal embankments that obstruct water’s fluencies. Qing emperor also emphasized government officer’s performance appraisal about this policy. About mountain management, he forbade people to cultivate hills, prohibited planting corn and chased shed people away. Official and literati also advocated environment protection thought and dedicated themselves to environment protection actions. They advocated that cultivating lakeside lands should be prohibited, illegal embankments should be demolished, taught people to plant trees, corns should not be planted, shed people should be chased away and the disadvantage of mudflows. Non-official people erected forests protecting stele declared that people should not over-cut trees. Although the Qing dynasty government made their efforts to try to play an important role in environment protection, it finally failed over. They didn’t take overall environment policies into consideration. The official system was loose managed and so laws and decrees were not actually performed. Over populated problems was not solved also. These caused all efforts fail finally.