Qing Dynasty Changzhou The Chongs Family Home Study

The Changzhou Wujin Zhuang clan family is the distinguished family which emerged in the late Qing Dynasty. Since ZhuangXiujiu married into Jiang clan family, Zhuang clan family had lived in Changzhou. Most clansmen in the early are farmers. When the branch transmitted to the fourth, the office position had become an important goal for the clansman. Among the posterity, Members of the family are gifted. Family members that have official position are too numerous to mention individually.The Zhuang clan family had large numbers of people. When Zhuang Qiyuan and Zhuang Tingchen had been respectively moved to the Changzhou Simon spinning loom and the East Gate Mashanbu, and then there had the title that named"West Zhuang"and"East Zhuang". Zhuang clan family had many branches, many people are very talented. For family members, participating in examination and obtaining official positions were the main channel and the record were impressive. Even if the career path was not smooth, family members opened apprentices, or wrote books, they all obtained underestimated Academic achievement. Almost every family member had their own book. Because of the number of voluminous and the many family members, therefore, scholars that record these books have inevitable omissions. Therefore, this phenomenon should be textual criticism clearly, and should be add slightly.The rise of the New Text Confucianism in Qing Dynasty, started with man Zhuang Cunyu, then Liu Fenglu carried forward. The rise of the New Text Confucianism is the characteristic of Zhuang clan family. As a representative, he created a new culture of research, opened a new research direction in the prosperous period of the Qing Dynasty. Because of his official history; the people do not know his work and ideas. Later, his book by his grandson Zhuang Shoujia published, people were able to know the Zhuang clan home school. Zhuang Shuzu studied"spring and autumn", and created a new method. Liu Fenglu and Song Xiangfeng also learned this method.Except the New Text Confucianism, in the literature, medicine, and other fields of epigraphy, family members all had research results. Can not be ignored is that the female members of Zhuang clan family, also have many poems in the world forever. A distinguished family, Marriage and Friendship is a major way. From one based on marriage to the marriage of interests, the object of marriage had been changed. In this way, the relationship that between Zhuang clan family and Distinguished Families had been set up and become a bridge between the developments of both families. In addition, family members were good at making friends with local academics and foreign scholars, such as Zhang Huiyan, Sun Xingyan, Wang Niansun, and Wang Yinzhi.As the distinguished family in the late of Qing Dynasty, the Zhuang clan family had a profound impact in the New Text Confucianism. The later scholars, such as Shao Jinhan, Kong Guangsen, are all the Zhuang clan family disciples. To the Opium period, the increasing of the reform of the society had become more and more popular. To Kang Liang-time, the New Text Confucianism had become the theoretical source of political reform.