“禁留地”初探

An Require into the“Forbidden Reservation Field”

清顺治年间,为封禁鄂尔多斯各部和蒙汉两族人民的交往,清廷沿晋、陕边墙以北划出一块东西长二千多里,南北宽五十里的长条形“禁留地”。“禁留地”既不许汉人耕种,也不许蒙古人游牧。康熙朝中叶,随着社会的发展,“禁留地”被开垦种植,从而引发了一系列社会后果。

In the decades of Shunzhi reign in Qing Dynasty, in order to enclose and forbid the contact among the Erduosi' tribes and to prevent the communication between the Hans and Mongolian, the government measured off a strip of land along the sidewall of Jin-Shan, which was more than 200 li from the east to the west and 50 li from the south to the north, and addressed it 搕he forbidden reservation field?, where the farming and grazing were disallowed. Until the middle period of Kangxi reign, 搕he forbidden reservation field?was reclaimed and planted, which caused a series of so-cial effects consequently.