明代吴王沟长城题刻考——兼述天聪八年后金与明的战事

A Study on the Stone Carving at the Wuwanggou Part of the Great Wall of Ming D ynasty——including a research on the battles between Later Jin and Ming in the eighth year of the Tiancong Reign (1634 AD)

在明朝末年,后金对明内地的五次军事进攻,激化了明朝的各种矛盾,加速了明王朝的灭亡。河北省阜平县吴王沟内保存的一处长城题刻,反映的是天聪八年(1634)后金对明内地第二次进攻中的一个局部。本文对该处题刻的位置、内容进行了考释,并对天聪八年后金与明战事的起因、经过加以梳理,结合整个战事,明确了题刻内容所涉及到的地域,战事阶段等。

During the late Ming dynasty,the Later Jin launched 5 military campaigns into the inner land of the Ming,which intensified the various conflicts in the Ming dynasty and accelerated its collapse.The stone carving preserved at Wuwanggou part of the Great Wall in Fuping County,Hebei Province,reflects part of the story of the second campaign by Later Jin in the eighth year of the Tiancong reign (1634).This thesis explores and explains the location and content of this carving,studies the cause and events of the battles between Later Jin and Ming in 1634,and clarifies the location and time of the battle involved in the carving on the basis of the understanding on the whole campaign.