《徐霞客游记》与南丹明清矿产开发

XU XIAKE's Travel Diaries and the Mining of Nandan County,Guangxi during Ming & Qing Dynasties

南丹矿产开发历史悠久,在明清时期进入了锡、银等矿开发的鼎盛阶段.明代著名探险家徐霞客将其途经南丹观察所得记录于闻名中外的《徐霞客游记》中,为研究南丹矿产开发历史的重要"信史".按其记述所提供的线索,调查位于南丹县大厂镇、芒场镇、车河镇的老矿窿、眢井和矿工墓葬群,考察南丹明清时期矿冶开发的技术特点.

Nandan County has rich mineral resources and a long history of mining,in its peak stage of tin and lead mining during Ming Qing dynasties.XU Xiake,the famous explorer in Ming dynasty,stayed in Nandan for 10 days and saw the prosperity of mining,and kept it down in his well-known diaries.According to the diaries,we surveyed the old mines,shafts and miner tombs in Dachang Town,Mang-chang Town and Chehe Town,as well as to do the investigation on the technical characteristics of mining in Nandan.All we obtained verified the important meaning of XU XIAKE＇s Travel Diaries of writing a ＂true history＂.