历史地理视域下的西北农牧交错带刍议

Northwestern farming-pastoral zones in the perspective of historical geography

西北农牧交错带作为农业文明与牧业文明互动、交融的产物,构成了中国西北区域社会发展中特有的历史地理形态。从历史地理的视角宏观审视西北农牧交错带建构的过程,由于自然和人文因素的交互驱动,其时间上虽贯穿古今但阶段性明显,空间上则展现出连续性与散点状并存的特征。西北农牧交错带在自然环境上的过渡性与脆弱性、政治上的敏感性与'内边疆'性、经济上的共生性与互补性、文化上的混融性与多样性等丰富内涵,不仅赋予其若干代表性的历史职能,而且也构成了中国区域研究中最重要的自然与人文'界限'。

The ecotones between agriculture and animal husbandry in northwestern China are the production of the interaction of agricultural civilization and animal husbandry civilization.They constitute a unique historical and geographical form of social development in northwestern China.From the perspective of historical geography,the process of the formation of the ecotone between agriculture and animal husbandry in northwestern China,due to the interaction of natural and human factors,has obvious phases in time,and exhibits'zonal'and'non-zonal'in space.The interlaced agricultural and pastoral areas in northwest China are characterized by transitional and fragile nature in the natural environment,political sensitivity and'inner frontierness',economical symbiosis and complementarity,cultural blending and'brokenness',etc.These characteristics not only endow it with several representative historical functions,but also constitute the most important natural and human'border'in China’s regional studies.