再论淮扬运河历史变迁

Further Study on the Historical Changes of Huaiyang Canal

京杭运河是世界上最长的运河,淮扬运河是京杭运河通航时间最长的河段。前人关于运河历史变迁的研究非常丰富,随着新史料的发现,运河历史变迁的细节及运河地名演变有望进一步探究。本文根据淮扬运河变迁的特点,将该运河变迁划分为初创期、缓慢发展期、大发展期以及完善期四个阶段,分别对应东汉以前、魏晋南北朝、隋唐宋和元明清时期,考证了各个时期运河的名称及得名原因、路线变迁,以期理清淮扬运河变迁全貌及其地名演变过程。

The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is the longest canal in the world,and the Huaiyang canal is the longest shipping time reach.Previous studies on the historical changes of the canal are very rich.However,with the discovery of new materials,the details of its changes have room for further exploration,and the evolution of its place names has the possibility of more comprehensive exploration.According to the characteristics of the change of Huaiyang Canal,this paper divides the change of Huaiyang Canal into four stages:the initial stage,the slow development stage,the great development stage and the perfect stage,which respectively correspond to the period before the Eastern Han Dynasty,from the Wei to the South and North Dynasty,from the Sui to the Song Dynasty,and from the Yuan to Qing Dynasties,research its period place names and the naming reason,its route changes,and its auxiliary engineerings,so that to clarify the overall picture of the change of Huaiyang Canal and the change process of historical place names.