“重陆轻海”与“通洋裕国”之海洋观刍议

明清两朝正处于世界性海洋历史发展的千古变局时代,但统治者沿袭传统模式,在立国思想上重农抑商、重陆轻海,在国防战略上以禁海代替海防,禁海迁界、守土防御,反映其海洋观念的淡薄;而东南沿海地方官员,尤其郑成功通洋裕国思想的提出和实践,显露出以商立国,向海洋空间发展的意涵;传统时代重陆轻海与通洋裕国所反映的海洋观念,对国家民族发展的影响在某种程度上可以忽略不计,但大航海时代,海洋作为人类的第二生存空间影响到世界历史走向和发展格局时,重陆轻海观念所带来的深层影响会因此而改变国家和民族的命运。

My Reflections upon the Different Views on Oceans of Laying Stress on the Land but Underestimating the Sea and of Enriching the Country by Opening up Sea Routes

The Ming and Qing Dynasties were just in an important period once in a thousand years of international sea development history,but the rulers thereof,due to their copying the traditional patterns of thought,stressed agriculture while restraining commerce and laid stress on the land but underestimated the sea in terms of ideology of building its nation while in the strategy of national defense,they practiced sea blockading in stead of coastal defense and safeguarded the land for its defense,which reflected t...