明代艺文家族的地域分布与概况

The Geographical Distribution and Basic Facts of the Art and Literature Clan in the Ming Dynasty

明代中后期,随着生产力的恢复和商业经济的勃兴,艺文兼擅的文人开始大量涌现,并以家族、结社等形式构成集群发展的态势。艺文家族作为一种特殊类型的文化世家,在有明一代达到了其发展的高峰,不仅数量庞大,而且取得了很高的成就,出现了诸如相城沈氏、长洲文氏、嘉兴项氏等巨族。从全国范围来看,江南地区在艺文家族的产生数量和发展质量上居于独占鳌头的地位,而西南、东北等地区的艺文家族的发展,在明代也取得了显著的进步,从而跟其他地区一起,共同呈现出明代艺文家族在全国范围内全面发展的态势。

in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the recovery of productivity and the development of commercial economy,people with talent of literature and art had massively emerged in the development form of collective such as family clan and poetry society. As a special kind of cultural clan, art and literature clan reached the developmental peak in the Ming Dynasty, not only had a large number, but obtained remarkable achievements. Some clans were very famous in the history of art in China, such as the Shen Family in Xiangcheng, Wen Family in Changzhou, and Xiang Family in Jiaxing, etc. On the national scale, the southern Yangtze River area produced the overwhelming majority of the art-literature clans. The development of the clans in southeast and northeast China also made a prominent progress in the Ming dynasty. With the other regions in China, there emerged an entirely and finely developmental posture of the art-literature clans across the country.