| dc.description.abstract | Braudel of the Annales School stressed the influence of long periods of time to history, and proposed the concepts of long term “structures,” mid-term “trends,” and short term “events” in the exploration of historical development. This paper uses “structures” and “trends” as the basis to discuss the developmental history of the Fengshan River Region, and further summarizes the four developmental periods of “watershed opening period,” “port opening and commercial period,” “north-south railway period,” and “light rail period.”
The natural landscape has existed for a long time, and for people to survive in nature, they must face the various limitations caused by the landscape. In the view of Braudel of the Annales School, this is the long term “structure.” The “trend” character of the times is in the transportation conditions of the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese Occupation Period. The river character of Fengshan River and the landscape appearances of the region produced structural limitations on river-crossing, ports, ancient paths, official roads, as well as the light rail and automobile routes under Japanese ruling. Transportation not only is developed according to structure, but also has the function of “breaking through structural limitations,” allowing a transportation network to form both inside and outside the Fengshan River Region.
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