明代江门海防体制初探——以沿海舆图为中心的考察

A Preliminary Study of Jiangmen's Coastal Defense System in the Ming Dynasty

江门地处中国东南沿海,是明代中国重要的海防前线。无论是兵家论著,还是地方史志中都保存了大量的江门沿海舆图。通过对这些沿海舆图中所标注历史信息的考证,不仅可以还原出明代江门海防体制变迁的大致轮廓,还可以详细考订明代后期从卫所官军巡海备倭到水寨兵船巡洋会哨政策在江门沿海地区实施的若干细节。

Jiangmen,located in the southeast coast of China,used to be an important coastal defense front during the Ming dynasty. A large number of Jiangmen coastal maps have been preserved in both military treatises and local historical records. A textual research on the historical information contained on these coastal maps can reveal not only the general outline of the changes of Jiangmen’s coastal defense system in the Ming dynasty,but also some details concerning the implementation of the coastal defense policy in Jiangmen coastal areas of the late Ming dynasty,from the patrol of the sea and defense against the Japanese pirates by garrison troops to patrol by navy ships.