Study On The Early Stage Of Shan And Shan’s Peasant Uprising In The Late Ming Dynasty(1627-1636)

At the end of Ming dynasty,because of the frequent occurrence of natural disasters and corruption of the ruling circles,the broad masses of people were very hard to survive,which made the class contradictions extremely acute.Additionally,ther e were increasing wars in the late Ming Dynasty,and the governor could not resolve the internal contradictions in time.At last,the great famous peasant uprising in the lat e Ming Dynasty broke out.Shanxi had a large population and a variety of taxes.In c onsequence,it became the birthplace of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty.On one hand,at the beginning of the peasant uprising,the attitude of the governo r to the rebel army changed from caress to suppression.The squires’ attitude towards the i nsurgents was different in different places.On the other hand,the team’s composition of was complex on the early stage and the peasant uprising had many leaders,repres ented by Wang Jiayin.Although their activities were limited to a few provinces,they la id a popular foundation for the development of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty and provided the combat experience,which had a significant impact.The pe asant uprising of the late Ming dynasty had its own unique characteristics.First of all,the team’s composition of the early stage of peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynas ty was complicated,include hungry soldiers,hungry people,citizens,and students and so on.Second,the early development of peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty was not i ntegrated with religion.Third,most of the rebel leaders have given themselves false na mes rather than their own names.Fourth,some members of the rebel army’s ideologic al consciousness were generally low.They were easy to accept caressing policy,even betrayed their team.Fifth,some of the insurgents were very violent on the early stage of peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.Sixth,natural factors had a great influenc e on the early stage of peasant uprising in the late Ming dynasty.Besides,the tablet Huan Yu’s self-Recording During Troubled Times enriched the details of the peasant upring tr oops’ specific activities in southeast Shanxi in the early stage of the peasant uprising in late Ming Dynasty.It also described the pervasive attitudes of local officials,squireand ordinary people in the face of peasant uprising troops’ attack.