Land use in the Yangtze River middle and lower reaches Area during the Ming and Qing Dynasties

It is considered that land use in the Yangtze River middle and lower reaches Area during the Ming and Qing Dynasties was the result of the increasingly acute tension between the people and land in the Han and the Tang dynasties. On the basis of analyzing the land use patterns in that period, the article further discussed the causes for the development of intensive land farming and gained an enlightenment from analyzing the land utilization in the Ming and Qing period: the exploitation and utilization of the land resources in China must follow a sustainable development.