Abstract

As the inhabitant that predominate the environment's change in a certain area, the relevant ethnic groups inevitably have the direct impact on the environment change during their own production activities; and, in turn the geographic environment also leaves its trace on the formation and development of that ethnic, so that each ethnic comes with a deep natural mark of the geographic environment. Relationship among the ethnic groups is apparently affected primarily by the factors like their development level, linguistic, tradition, culture and policy, etc. , however, as a matter of fact, they are all related to the geographic elements; thus, when we propose the ethnic policy and study the management of ethnic problem in practice, it is necessary to take into account not only the impact of“human”, but also the function of“geography”. Only when both“human”and“geography”could react reciprocally, the mutual benefits and harmonious development in the ethnic area can be achieved.

Chuang is the largest populated minority ethnic in China at the present stage and is comparatively highly assimilated with the Chinese culture. Previously, the research of Chuang ethnic group mainly concerns on the aspects of Chuang's history, culture, tradition, linguistic, art and religion, etc. while extensive and intensive research on its relationship with geographic environment like the way to adapt to the environment, outcome and solution is inadequate, especially in the process of human-geography relationship in the Chuang area；However, in the study of ethnic issues, ignorance over the geographic factors especially the human-geography ones will not only bring problems on the illustration of the ethnic evolution and development process clearly, make it impractical to effectively handle the relationship among ethnic groups in the area, but also make it difficult to achieve the strategic goal of promoting the harmonious and steady development in the ethnic area. Since it is indispensable to the recognition, adaptation and reformation of the human-geography relations in the practice in regard to ethnic groups'evolution or the management of ethnic relations, as well as the social-economic development in the ethnic area, it is necessary and significant to deepen the study on the adaptation of ethnic relations and human-geography relations at this stage.

Specifically, the impact of human-geography relations over the ethnic relations mainly embody in the following perspectives: firstly, the condition of human-geography relations is one of the major factor that affects the ethnic population migration and change of ethnic relations. Secondly, the human-geography relations and the load of environment capacity can also determine the ethnic developing direction, social status and the number of population. Next, the condition of human-geography can directly or indirectly give impact to the regional ethnic image and individual psychological characteristics. The last, the human-geography relations is one of the critical roots that cause ethnic contradiction or conflict. Nonetheless, the impact of human-geography is only an external factor over the evolution and development process of the ethnic relations; historically, the real movement and evolution tendency of the ethnic relations are in fact the outcome of the combination of multiple factors;particularly, the ethnic history, policy, organization, structure, religion, culture, psychology, image and tradition all bring their own impact and function over the ethnic relation's development and change.

The impact of human-geography relations is so extensive and penetrated during the process of the ethnic development and its group relations evolution;and among these, there is not only the passive adaptation of the ethnic relations change and evolution against human-geography relations situation, but also the active reflection of the human-geography relations and the regional environment characteristics change; Certainly, no matter what it is, the ethnic process is propelled smoothly. It's not exceptional to the Chuang ethnic group. In general view, during the adaptation and reformation of the human-geography relations, the identity of ethnic group of Chuang and its relations with other ethnics are being formed gradually, and the ethnic process of Chuang ethnic was actualized finally in the history. Historically, subject to the constraint and impact from the geographic factor, Chuang ethnic group had undergone complicated change in the region distribution in term of the spatial patten. Furthermore, in different space-time scope, Chuang ethnic has correspondently adopted different adaption measures in the fields of farming, livestock, hunting and culture etc. due to the change of natural and social environment. These adaptation measures interact with the environment and formed a relatively complicated inter-relationship between the ethnic change and human-geography relations in Chuang ethnic history.

Although the adaptation of ethnic relations and human-geography relations is widely involved, a thorough understanding to the points below should be valued: firstly, as most of the absorption and usage of advanced production technology and production mode can efficiently release the intensifying human-geography relations to a relative extend, thus it's significant to absorb and use advanced production technology and production mode in the adjustment toward the ethnic relations and human-geography relations. Secondly, it will be helpful to inherit and develop national culture by“developing and abandoning”some factors according to the ethnic group's own conditions while introducing and learning other ethnic advanced technology and culture. Next, the adaptation and adjustment of ethnic relations and human-geography relations should be achieved as much as possible to embody the self completeness, efficiency and harmoniousness; therefore, in practice, on one hand it is required to timely construct a scientific and reasonable human activity value system and a social organization structure to handle the natural environment, and to seriously regulate the human and ethnic behavior mode system that directly connect with the nature; on the other hand we should break through the barrier of human-geography and to create a new ethnic relations and human-geography mechanism by exploring the resource, potential and creativity of human's integrated system. At last, as the over-exploitation to the natural resources like land and minerals may also evoke new intense situation on the relationship between human and geography and among ethnic groups, therefore, taking practical and effective policies and measures to control it in practice has great significance on the ethnic relations' coordination and human-geography relations.

Keywords: National Relationship; Human-geography Relationship; Ethnic Process; Environment Impact; Sustainable Development