| Based on numerable and valuable historical documents,spatial and temporal characteristics of land reclamation in Huo PanDi at the outside of the Great Wall in the North of Shaanxi in the Qing Dynasty were analyzed in this paper.The results are as following:① four stages of the land reclamation in HuoPanDi at the outside of the Great Wall in the north of Shaanxi in the Qing Dynasty were identified,i.e.,the stage of desolation in the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty,the stage of recultivation from the 36th year of Kangxi Emperor to the 6th year of Qianlong Emperor,the stage of expanding reclamation from the 7th year of Qianlong Emperor to the 28th of Guangxu Emperor,and the stage of desolation from the 28th year of Guangxu Emperor to the end of Xuantong Emperor.The arable lands were reclaimed up and more and more people beginned to live by the later stage of Kangxi emperor.The interdiction during the time of the next emperors(Qianlong,Jiaqing,Daoguang,Xianfeng,Tongzhi and Guangxu) kept on enlarging the farmland and brought it to the "peak" level in the reign of Daoguang and Guangxu emperors.② The land reclamation is spatially imbalanced due to environmental differences.In the early stage,the recultivation concentrated in the meadow areas.In the mid-stage,the reclamation expanded in meadow and tibba areas.In later stage,the reclamation activities moved back to tibba.As the spatial characteristics,the meadow areas with better natural conditions had a low ratio of desolation,a high ratio of recultivation and a quick process of recultivation.The tibba areas had a high ratio of desolation and the intensity of reclamation there was much high. |