明代不仅重视荒政建设,更注重赈灾救灾。明代的湖南随着“湖广熟,天下足”的出现,其自然灾害也朝着趋频趋烈的方向发展,这引起了朝廷的高度关注,并采取了相应的赈济之策。综观明代朝廷对湖南的赈灾,具有如下之特点:朝赈有严格的程序且渐趋制度化、法制化;“轻征薄敛”是明代湖南朝赈最引人注目的特点;卫所屯军也是朝赈的对象;朝赈的次数与灾害的强度及频度成正比,也会因地区重要性的不同而显示出差别。 Ming Dynasty not only attaches importance to the construction of famine relief, pay more attention to disaster relief. With the advent of the “Huguang ripening, enough world footing” in Hunan in the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters have also developed in the direction of increasing frequency, which has aroused the great concern of the court and adopted corresponding relief measures. Looking at the disaster relief of the court in Hunan in the Ming Dynasty, it has the following characteristics: a strict process towards relief and gradually becoming institutionalized and legalized; the “light levitation and thinning” are the most striking characteristics of Hunan’s relief work in the Ming Dynasty; It is also the object of relief work. The frequency of relief work is directly proportional to the intensity and frequency of disasters and also shows a difference due to the importance of different regions.