ABSTRACT
The Ming garrison guard system had relatively independent managerial power. For example, in terms of household registration, the population under its jurisdiction included both the hereditary military households and the custodial civil households, commonly referred to as household registration managed by the garrisons (weiji). It was stipulated in the Ming dynasty that households in different registers had different duties and enjoyed different treatments. There was also the possibility of moving among different household registrations. The emergence of garrison registration had a great impact on population mobility, social change and territorial management in the Ming and the Qing dynasties.
