闽台古市镇的时空分布及形成机制

聚落是文化地理学研究的重要内容,其时空分布与演变蕴含着区域经济发展和文化传播的重要信息.通过提取福建和台湾宋代至清代古市镇的空间数据,利用GIS及其空间分析功能,探讨闽台古市镇的时空分布和空间扩散规律.研究结果表明：闽台古市镇数量随时间推移逐渐增多,并在明清时期经历了高速增长期;在空间分布上经历了由内陆向沿海、山区向盆地谷地,再从东部沿海向西部山区的扩散过程;从闽台古市镇规模和集中时间看,台湾古市镇出现多晚于福建,二者皆在清代达到顶峰,应该是福建人口清代大规模迁移台湾所致,同时也折射出区域经济和社会发展的历史现实.

The Study of Spatial-Temporal Characteristics and Formation Mechanism of Old Towns between Fujian and Taiwan Province

The settlement is the important objective of cultural geography,and the spatial-temporal characteristics and formation show the process of regional economy development and cultural communication.On the basis of extraction the spatial data of old towns from Song Dynasty to Qing Dynasty in Fujian and Taiwan,the space-time distribution and the rules of these towns are studies by means of GIS spatial analysis method.The result shows that the numbers of the towns are generally increased with the passage of time,particularly during Ming and Qing dynasty,it had a high growth.The spatial dispersion of these old towns go through two stages.In the first stage they diffused from mountain district to basin or coastal area,and it is completely contrary in the following stage.And all of these show the development history of economy and society in Fujian and Taiwan.