Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)

Crops in the Americas and Planting Regulations in the Southern Shaanxi Mountains

Authors
Xingying Wang, Teng Ma, Jian Zhang
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Xingying Wang
Available Online July 2018.
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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.355How to use a DOI?
Keywords
tourist environment history; southern Shaanxi; Qing dynasty; American high-yield crops
Abstract

Based on the Chinese local chronicles, this article adopts a literature analysis method. From the perspective of environmental history, it discusses corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes at different times and was introduced for the purpose of economic development and the solution of famine, because of population increase, social governance and economy changes, in the way of development led to the destruction of the natural environment in southern Shaanxi. The study found that local elite groups have taken a series of measures to protect the environment: (1) Combining with the people's religious beliefs and prohibiting cultivation; (2) The government persuaded the use of widely-planted trees; (3) The official government erected a steel to ban mountainous areas; (4) The local gentleman and the merchant planted the trees spontaneously.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-528-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.355How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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