The Research Of The Gansu Gentry Of Qing Dynasty

The gentry were China society's outstanding person social strata in the ancient times. They not only had the high social position and the prestige, moreover in many social affairs, especially in the local areas social affairs, they were playing the vital roles . It is so-called"the officials could not leave the gentry to get potential achievement".The Gansu gentry of Qing Dynasty were part of important components of ancient times numerous gentry social stratum. they not only had the general character of this first-order level, but also had characteristic of the northwest areas. The backward economy and the education level of Gansu caused the quantity of the gentry social stratum less than the rich areas such as the Jiangsu and the Zhejiang .But Gansu nationality ingredient's multiplicity also causes the gentry community the nationality present multiple characteristics.On the gentry status's acquisition, the imperial civil service examination test still was main way of the Gansu scholars gain the gentry status. But through the military exploit prize to obtain the gentry status and the qualifications of to be officials was another important way .It was also a characteristic. The gentry not only concerned about the country and people , and the tradition called them paied attention on social affair, moreover,they were playing the actual leading role in many local business. For the Gansu gentry, they are not exceptional, they made the positive contributions in such as the place public affairs.For example, the place education, the path bridge ,social enlightenment, place public security ,they were acting the initiation and the actual manager's role for the Qing Dynasty Gansu society's development.For the Gansu gentry,in these all local business, the Hui erupts of Tonzhi dynasty is the matter which was worth paying attentions.Because not only many people was involved in the chaos, the chaos caused some of people were promoted, or pushed them in to the gentry social stratum ranks.Something more importantly, many gentry sacrificed in the chaos ,that precisely manifested was the gentry's the noble quality"prefering honor to life","concerning about country and people". The gentry's most important status, also the most direct symbol, is they masterd the knowledge, therefore the ancient Gansu society's bright culture could not leave the Gansu gentry the significant contributions of Qing Dynasty.