明代长城是当时阶级矛盾与民族矛盾复杂斗争的产物,是农业民族用以防范游牧民族南下,保护定居生活的巨大工程。以长城东段为例,因大量驻军的存在,在长城内侧沿线形成了许多军事据点。至清代,这些军事据点伴随中国新的大一统局面的形成和民族间经济文化矛盾冲突的缓解,其中的大部分演变为一般居 The Great Wall of Ming Dynasty was a product of the complicated struggles of class conflicts and ethnic conflicts of the time, and a great project for agricultural nations to prevent nomadic peoples from going south and to protect their settlement life. Taking the eastern section of the Great Wall as an example, many military bases have been formed along the Great Wall on account of the presence of a large number of troops. By the Qing Dynasty, these military strongholds were accompanied by the formation of a new unified state of China and the alleviation of the contradictions and conflicts in the economic and cultural inter-ethnic groups, most of which evolved into general residential