Study On The Social Relief Ideas Of Scholar Reformers During Jia-Dao Period Of Qing Dynasty

Because the changes of politics, economy and culture at home and abroad during Jiaqing and Daoguang Period of Qing Dynasty, some wise Chinese advocated the Statecraft Ideological thought .They relieved famines and reform disadvantages. They recovered the statecraft ideological thought of the Chinese Intellectuals that had been in Chinese Traditional Thoughts. The Statecraft Ideological thought include many sides. But in past research, most study on Canal Transport\ Salt Policy\ River Engineering, only a few thesis talk about the Social Relief ideas of the scholar reformers. In this thesis, centering on the most important persons of the scholar reformers, such as Tao Shu , Lin Zexu, He Changling , Wei Yuan , Bao Shichen and so on, talk about their thought on the Social Relief ideas.During Jia-Dao Period of Qing Dynasty, there are too many natural disasters and famines. Many peasants lived poor life .Witness the serious disadvantages and increasing famines ,the scholar reformers summarized and developed the Policies of Famine-relief of China in long time practice. Besides the relief work after the natural disasters, the scholar reformers also pay much attention to daily relief and prevention work.The text mainly includes six parts, the first chapter is the Sources of the Social relief ideas of scholar reformers .Their thought originated from the attention about the serious crisis ,Chinese traditional Famine-relief thought and the practice of relieving famine.The Second chapter talk about the famine relief policies in"Huang-chao Jing-shi Wen-bian".This book is the the flag of scholar reformers, abstracting many statecraft ideological articles. For five volumes are about the policy of Famine-relief, and many other articles about developing agriculture and building Water Conservancy. The third and the four chapters are the main core of this thesis, talking about the social relief ideas of scholar reformers. On one hand, scholar reformers take positive relieved work when disaster have occurred,on the other hand, scholar reformers pay much attention to Vulnerable groups.The fifth chapter is about prevention thought before famine. They developed agriculture and built water conservancy, and emphasized granary construction and grain storage.The last part is about characteristics of the social relief ideas of scholar reformers, and influence of them. Their ideas reflect humanity and people-centrism of Confucianism. They also represent the governmental relief works. Besides, scholar reformers encouraged and aroused private people helping others. They influence many people in late Qing dynasty.We study history for today practice, and aborb experience. Recently our country attach much importance to the people's livelihood, and establish Chinese rural social security system. Maybe we can absorb some experience form the social relief ideas of scholar reformers .