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Basic meaning of region

Usually refers to a certain geographical space, also known as the region. Its connotation includes: ① the region has certain boundaries; ② There are obvious similarities and continuity within regions, but there are obvious differences among regions; ③ The area has certain advantages, characteristics and functions; (4) Regions are interrelated, and changes in one region will affect the surrounding areas.

Usually refers to a certain geographical space, also known as the region. Its connotation mainly includes: ① the region has certain boundaries;

② There are obvious similarities and continuity within regions, but there are obvious differences among regions;

③ The area has certain advantages, characteristics and functions;

(4) Regions are interrelated, and changes in one region will affect the surrounding areas.

Generally speaking, region is a concept that reflects the characteristics of time, space, economy, society and culture. It is a core concept often used in economic geography and cultural geography. Because a meaningful regional concept must be the organic integration of natural elements and humanistic elements. Therefore, in this sense, the essence of regional concept in people's minds should be a functional definition. Based on this view, people usually refer to the third meaning mentioned above. Because the region is a comprehensive understanding of time and space, human activities, natural conditions and human conditions, the characteristics expressed by its region are obvious:

regional

Regionality is the main basis for people to define a place. Every geographical event, every geographical event, happened in a specific time and space and was witnessed by a specific person. Therefore, regionality has become the symbolic feature of regional characteristics. For example, the rise and spread of Changyang Bashan Dance has obvious regional characteristics.

humanitarianism

When people study the regional characteristics of a place, the first thing they value is humanity. Humanity has become an important attraction for people to study a place. It can be said that human consciousness predicts one or more possible humanism to some extent as long as it is related to the real material existence. Regional cultural characteristics are mainly based on natural conditions to profoundly grasp the outstanding connotation of humanistic elements. Therefore, another outstanding feature of this region is its unique humanity. Otherwise, all regional activities that human beings are engaged in are meaningless. Just like natural unconscious objects were born in the world for some reason. Therefore, from this perspective, the humanity of the region is a more scientific and conscious behavior embodied by human beings. It includes material or immaterial behavior.

comprehensiveness

The things or relationships reflected by the region (or system) are often complex synthesis of relationships or entities. A single geographical situation or event cannot form a regional space. For example, when people talk about Egypt, they not only relate to its geographical location, natural factors, population, resources and other factors, but also include its historical factors such as its rise and development, as well as many civilizations it has created. Therefore, when people study a regional space, they often need to look at the analysis from a comprehensive perspective in order to grasp its various elements comprehensively, scientifically and vividly.

Of course, the region will have other characteristics, such as historicity, differences and so on. Understanding these characteristics will help people to better understand a regional space and engage in various regional activities. Regional economic system refers to a multi-level organic combination with different functions and structural characteristics formed by the interaction of various human economic activities in different geographical areas. Also known as regional economic system or spatial economic system. The geographical scope can be as large as a vast country or a group composed of several countries, as small as a region, city or county below a province. The conditions of economic development, natural conditions and social and historical conditions vary greatly from place to place, so the level and combination of various economic activities in different regions are also different.

The components of regional economic system generally include the main departments related to the whole economic field-production, circulation, distribution and consumption. The departments that constitute the regional economic system can also form their own systems and become subsystems of the regional economic system. Economic systems in different regions have different structures and functions because of their different main components and different degrees of connection. There are also great differences in completeness and development level.

Any regional economic system is dynamic and develops and changes with the passage of time. Changes in the structure, function, connection and development level of the economic system will also cause changes in regional scope and inter-regional relations. To infer or predict the future development trend, we must understand the historical development process of regional economic system.

Combining with the specific conditions of different regions, it is of great significance to deeply analyze and study the composition, structure, function, internal and external relations and development process of the regional economic system for developing the economy according to local conditions and making a reasonable layout of the national economy. Regional economic system is the key research object of economic geography. China has 34 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions (including Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province), 845 municipal districts, 374 county-level cities, 1470 counties, 1 7 autonomous counties, 49 flags, 3 autonomous flags and 2 special zones,1. By the end of 2005, the number of nature reserves in China has reached 2,349 (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), with a total area of149,949,000 hm2, accounting for about 14.99% of China's land area. Among the existing nature reserves, there are 243 national nature reserves, accounting for 10.34% of the total number of nature reserves, 773 provincial nature reserves at local level, 42 1 reserve at prefecture level and 91reserve at county level, initially forming a relatively complete type, reasonable layout and sound function.

China's nature reserve system is characterized by small area and many protected areas, with less than 50 protected areas exceeding 654.38+ 10,000 hectares; Diversified management of protected areas; The management level of most protected areas is low, with the number of protected areas at county and municipal levels accounting for 46% and the area accounting for 50.3%. In China, many regional cultures are related to the north and south regions, such as: south opposition, south fighting, south going north, south going north and so on. China is bounded by the Qinling Mountains and Huaihe River, and there are obvious differences in many aspects. The differences between North and South are mainly manifested in nature, physique, language, personality, literature and art, diet, politics, culture and society. Natural difference: the climate in the north is not as hot as that in the south. Fat in the north and short in the south. Character, the north is rough and straightforward, and the south is delicate and soft. Generally speaking, this difference is mainly the result of long-term natural conditions and human factors.

Optimal power

China ancient Wushu, known as Nanquan and Beitui, has different styles and distinctive features. The sun rises from the top of Mount Tai, and in the empty space, it opens wide, leaps forward and stretches generously, which are the characteristics of northern Wushu. The moon hangs on a small bridge in the bamboo forest. The small bridge is full of strength, wide and heavy, fast and compact, which is the characteristic of southern Wushu. Let's be clear here, that is, the martial arts mentioned in this article mainly refers to fist and fist kung fu.

The differences of ancient martial arts styles in China can be distinguished by regions, but the key to this difference lies in the physical differences, that is, the differences of martial arts styles between North and South schools.

Compared with southerners, northerners have long legs, strong physique and outstanding strength, and their martial arts also highlight these characteristics. Boxing, for example, is often smashed, collapsed and rushed, and it also emphasizes throwing, rushing and bumping. These skills are based on strength advantage. As for the application and skills of leg technique, the Southern School is far behind.

Although southern Wushu can make use of the characteristics of flexibility and quickness, it can only offset the gap in attack scope and cannot make up for the absolute gap in strength. If we emphasize strength training, it will inevitably affect the flexibility of the body, so that the defects in the attack range will be exposed. It can be said that the core of the whole development of Nanpai Wushu is to increase the attack intensity on the premise of keeping the body flexible, and when this is realized, it is the time when Nanpai Wushu catches up with Beipai Wushu.

Nanchuan of Ma Bei

The formation of the pattern of "south ships and north horses" is related to the geographical and natural conditions in China. In ancient China, boats were the main modes of transportation in the south and horses in the north. The reason is that the climate in the south is humid, the precipitation is abundant, and the rivers and lakes on the surface are densely covered, so the ship transportation adapted to the "water town" came into being. In the north, however, the climate is arid and semi-arid, grasslands are widely distributed and animal husbandry is developed. In addition to providing milk and meat products, horses have been domesticated as vehicles by the people in the north and become vehicles on the land in the north because of their good endurance and high speed. Due to the different combinations of natural and human conditions around the world, the regional characteristics of many places are very distinct.

Characteristics of earthquake-resistant buildings in Japan

Japan is a country with frequent earthquakes, and about 20% of the global earthquakes of magnitude 6 and above occurred in Japan. Earthquakes of magnitude 2 or 3 occur in Japan almost every month. In the face of harsh environment, Japan constantly strives to improve the overall ability of earthquake prevention and disaster relief, which is fully reflected in its architectural characteristics. Japanese laws have very strict requirements on the safety of buildings such as earthquake resistance and fire prevention. The Building Standards Law stipulates that new buildings must achieve the seismic strength that will not collapse in the once-in-a-century earthquake and will not be damaged in the once-in-a-decade earthquake. If the seismic index is unqualified, it can be demolished and rebuilt. Most of the "walls" of Japanese civil buildings are "integral structures", that is, a large and integral "wall". Inside these wall structures are fillers like asbestos. Cities are also making a big fuss about "earthquake-resistant buildings". In some cities, hard rubber and steel plates are added to buildings, which makes the structures of buildings flexible and can resist earthquakes of magnitude 7 or so.

Swiss skiing

The Alps make Switzerland a ski paradise. Verbier Ski Resort, praised by skiers as one of the top ten ski resorts in the world, is a first-class ski resort in Switzerland, located between Zermatt and Mont Blanc, and belongs to the upper-middle level ski resort. Unlike ski resorts in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Swiss ski resorts have few forests and many natural slides, which are very suitable for skiers to challenge.

Verbier is the largest ski resort in Switzerland, with a total length of 400 kilometers. It is a ski resort for European skiers. Just like Whistler, the largest Canadian ski resort in North America, Weibull is also a merger of several ski resorts. Most ski trails in the whole area can be connected by cable cars, and the slides are spacious. Unlike the narrow slides of Asian ski resorts, there is no space pressure for skiing. Even the' black line slide' that is difficult to mark is not as difficult as expected, and it has made rapid progress.

Skiing, the most enjoyable thing is to slide on the snow without slides. Because there are few trees and many rocks above 1000 meters, when the snow is deep and the rocks are buried under the snowdrift, it becomes a natural ski slope, which also gives the ski resort an excellent view and a wide slide.

Obviously, Switzerland has become a world-famous ski center, first of all, good natural conditions work, and then people's development and utilization generate value. Moreover, this combination is rare in the world and has a strong regional character, which is irreplaceable by anyone.