Early Qing Henan Social Reconstruction

The social reconstruction in early Qing refers to the Qing ruler reconstructed overall society of China on the basis of military conquest after the social disintegration in late Ming. After the Qing Dynasty occupied the Central Plains, its primary task was to restore social order. The center of social order construction was the restoration and perfection of political and moral order in early Qing. China has gone through a social reconstruction from chaos and rule, from disorder to order the dynamic development process in early Qing.Compared with the South, the Northern regions in late Ming, especially Henan Province had the very important strategic location, its society was serious broken, and social order was also very confusing. Qing finished the military occupation of Henan, reconstructed the political order of establishment of the system of local administration and military. The Qing governments strengthen social control and social security, then recreated the grass-roots society in Henan. Governance through the adoption of policies and measures promoted economic recovery in Henan. Henan Neo-Confucianism group rose in early Qing. The academic activity and social practice of Confucians had a significant impact on the ideological and cultural construction of Henan. From the facts, social reconstruction of Henan was significantly and effectiveness, gained wide recognition from the public, and the overall process was relatively quick and successful. The Social reconstruction of Henan Province in the early Qing was a success story.As an extremely complex and difficult systems engineering, the dynasty of the change of social reconstruction was a new regime of social political, economic, ideological and cultural elements re-integration, directly determine the country's prosperity and the rise and fall with the historical trend. The Qing rulers in order to legitimize the objective of political reconstruction as the guide, based on ideological and cultural reconstruction, economic recovery and development for the protection, after more than fifty years, smooth transition to the Flourishing Age of Kang-Qian, gone through a successful road of social reconstruction.