Research On The Historian Group Who Are Officials In Early Qing Dynasty

Accompanied by the ruin of Ming Dynasty and the establishment of Qing Dynasty, due to the different political and cultural value orientation, the historian group appeared differentiation. Some historians regardless of the hua-yi distinction, but to chose as officials of the Qing dynasty resolutely, so a special historian group who are officials of the Qing dynasty was born. They are living in an age of the Qing dynasty from disordered to stable, witnessed the turmoil in the late Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty gradually stable, their social psychology and behavior orientation has certain representativeness, so they are important for us to understand that era. In the past,the research always focus on the adherents of the Ming Dynasty and the renegade officials, the study of historians who are officials of the Qing dynasty also presented in the form of cases, so taking the historians who are officials of the Qing dynasty as a group to research appears very necessary.This article will adopt the method of overall research, starting from the commonality of the historian group who are officials of the Qing dynasty, and analyze their distribution in the early Qing dynasty, and the dynamic changes of the group. As time goes on, historians who are adherents of Ming Dynasty gradually die, cooperating with the authorities is a very natural thing, therefore the historian group who are officials of the Qing dynasty is constantly growing. This article tries to treat the historians as full people, in addition to the analysis of their historical writing, but also through their political, social and cultural activities in the early Qing dynasty, I try to be fully present their living condition. In the process of the construction of cultural order at the beginning of the Qing dynasty, on the one hand, they resistanted the cultural demands of adherents of Ming dynasty together with the Qing court, attempting to construct the social discourse of Qing dynasty’s unify. On the other hand, due to their identity of the han nationality scholars, they promoted Qing dynasty to accept and learn huaxi culture and the formulation of cultural policies at the beginning of Qing dynasty. Because of the official status, they also became the bridge in the communication of the official and folk culture. In the society of early Qing dynasty, the historian group who are officials of the Qing dynasty played an indispensable role, so it is worthy of more academic attention and study.