Time Changes In The Shanxi Gentry(1891-1937)

In the 1980 s,with the discovery of Tuixiangzhai diary,gentry studies have renewed vitality,the article also take Tuixiangzhai diary as the object of study.A systematic analysis of the rural gentry,self hardship,political choice,life change and emotional emotion recorded in the diary,explored the last generation of gentry in the experience of policical order,ideological orientation,changese in life customs,behavior choices and psychological activities,hope that we can restor the true faces of the everyman in the big and reveal how to adapt dand changes in moder China.In the end of the 19 th century,China experienced “thousands of years without a big turbulent situation”,which changed not only the political system,but also spreads to daily life,and this change was devastating to many gentry.On the one hand,the new world,the west wind blew,they wanted to maintain the social order and accept new life under pressure.So they attended the bus letter,and a series of social reforms,but these chice of gentry after rational thking,and they are the true portraiture of the combination of tradition and Modernity.