河北省运河城镇研究——以明清吴桥县为对象的历史考察

Research on the Towns along the Canal in Hebei Province——Historical Investigation Taking the Object of Wuqiao County in Ming and Qing Dynasty

吴桥县是明清两朝运河沿岸的码头与商埠,具有重要的河工、漕运、经济地位。吴桥县的兴衰与京杭运河有着密切关系,突出体现了运河变迁对沿线城镇的巨大影响,具有明显的运河特色。在运河文化带建设日新月异的今天,通过挖掘吴桥县的运河历史文化资源,对于充分发挥河北省丰富的地域文化优势,促进运河遗产的保护与利用、运河古镇建设与旅游业发展、运河文化产业的兴盛都具有重要的意义与价值。

Wuqiao county was the wharf and trading port along the canal in Ming and Qing dynasty, and it had important position in river engineering project, grain transport, and economy. Wuqiao county, whose vicissitude had close relationship with the Beijing-Hangzhou canal, embodied the great influence of canal's transition to the towns along its way, and had obvious characteristic of the towns along the canal. Today the canal culture belt has been built with progress very quickly. Through excavating the historical and cultural resources of the canal in Wuqiao county, we can give full play to the advantage of rich local culture in Hebei province, promote the protection and utilization of the canal legacy, develop the construction of canal ancient town and tourism, and make the canal culture industry thrive. It has important significance and value for all these aspects.