Abstract:
As a mainstay of productive means in a society, social customs can show the spatial discrepancy and regional complexity in land utility in a place in a way. In the period of the Republic of China, the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi maintained a farminghusbandry productive means owing to a small population. Along the Great Wall, especially in the shadow of Dingbian and Jingbian, people were mainly engaged in husbandry with mutton and fur as their main source of everyday life. However, growing along the banks of the Yellow River were line after line of date trees and field after field of safflowers. Besides, the locality also produced fruit rolls and wild jujubes as local specialties. Because of geographical diversity among the natural regions, the means of land utility of different regions show some degree of complexity.
