明代湘黔边"苗疆"堡哨"边墙"考

A Textual Research into Blockhouses and "Boundary Wall" in "Miao Territory" on the Border of Hunan and Guizhou in Ming Dynasty

本文通过正史和地方志资料,加之作者的实地考察,详细地考证了明代湘黔边"苗疆"堡哨和"边墙"的沿革与兴废,并指出其历史地位。作者认为,堡哨"边墙"是镇压、控制当地少数民族的特殊军事设施和暴力工具,但在客观上和某种程度上,也起到了保留和维持"苗疆"相对稳定的历史作用。

Based on the historical and local records and the author's onthespot investigation, this paper makes an intensive textual research into the wax and wane of blockhouses and 'boundary wall' in 'Miao territory' on the border of Hunan and Guizhou in Ming Dynasty. It is pointed out that blockhouses and 'boundary wall' were the military installations and means of violence used to suppress local minority nationalities. However, objectively they played the historical role of stabilizing 'Miao territory' to some degree.