The Politic Choice Between1644and1645

The era of the Ming dynasty replaced by the Qing dynasty isunusually intricate. In the condition of regime change and the ethnicconflicts, the personal activities seemed to be trivial but containedprofound meaning. Lingjiong became the Scholars in the final imperialexam of Chongzhen. And he was appointed as the Supervisor of the armyfrom Beijing to Shanxi Province. When the Capital of Ming Dynasty wasstormed by the army of LiZhicheng, he wasn’t martyred or fled to thesouth. He selected to wait and see in Shandong Province where betweenthe north and south. To a certain extent, he fell into the political andethical dilemmas. After he couldn’t keep a foothold in the northern areaof Yellow River, he went to Nanjing to pay his respect to Emperor ofHongguang and received the appointment as the Provincial InvestigatingCensor of Henan. Finally, he was unyielding martyrdom in March of1645when the army of Qing captured Guide. He switched the role thatever cooperated with Qing Dynasty to the martyr of Ming Dynasty. Thechoice of Lingjiong between1644and1645can be regard as a complete overture of the magnificent activities what South Ming resisted the Qing.Among the characters that forced to make all sorts of reactions, his deedshighly concentrated current situation of chaos and struggling of humanityat that time. And this process was completed before the Qing troops wentsouth to offensive Yangzhou.With the help of analyzing Lingjiong’s deeds in detailed textualresearch, this article tries to reappear the scholars how to make politicalchoice and face the brutal political misfortune and ethnic tensions in theera of Qing replaced Ming. And I hope it may provide a footnote tounderstand the big collapse and crack of that time profoundly.