Ming Chuan Foothill Governance Issues Research

Ming dynasty is an important period in the development of our united multi-ethnic country. Under the pressure of development of the different ethnic groups, Ming government had to face the ethnic problems. To deal with the relationships with ethnic groups, stabilize the ruling of the frontier region, Ming ruler formulated the various ethnic policies. But with the obstructions of the changes of national power, the characters of the emperors and the political fighting, Ming ethnic policy experienced serious complicated changes, which seriously influenced the national power of Ming dynasty. So, the rise and fall of Ming dynasty is closely related with the ethnics and the success and failure of the ethnic policies.The doctoral dissertation is based on the previous research, according to the abundant and detailed histories and chronicles, using the methods of ethnology and history, combined with the related subjects and theories, studies the process of the management of Ming’s Lu Chuan Si Shi regime, and investigates the ruling of frontier ethnics and the gains and loses of dealing with ethnic groups to reveal the importance of correctly handling the ethnic issues.The main contents as follows,Introduction:strongly emphasizes the essay’s research value, research survey related domestic and internal academe, basic research, research methods. etc.Chapter one:Dai regime in the early Lu Chuan area. According to the description of the history of Lu Chuan area, sorting out the development, looking back the political life of the Dai people in this area, we could clearly understand the Dai ethnic group not only has the sincere religion, beautiful homeland, the special Dai bamboo house, graceful dancing, but also the splendid culture and long history. The history development of Dai group is one part of the indispensable part of the whole Chinese national history. The political life of Dai people is one part of the indispensable part of multi-ethnic development of the whole country.In the west Dai ethnic area with Lu Chuan area as the center, the splendid Da Guan kingdom, Meng Mao Guo Zhan Bi kingdom were ever built, forming the unified regime of the history in west Dai ethnic. The formalization and existence of the regime not only shows the political level of the west Dai ethnic group, but also indicates the development of the economy and culture of west Dai people.Chapter two:The political background of the management of Lu Chuan by Ming Dynasty. In this chapter, it introduces that the Ming Dynasty set the related agencies in the central and local area to deal with the frontier ethnic issues, to strengthen the management of the minorities. Furthermore, the essay also recalls the history of Lu Chuan, summarizes the developing process of central government and Lu Chuan area. By describing the political situation of Lu Chuan at that time, thoroughly understand the basic situation of the management of Lu Chuan area by Ming Dynasty.Chapter three:Lu Chuan Si Shi regime in Ming Dynasty. This chapter summarized the uniqueness of the Lu Chuan ethnic policy. The emphasis of its policy varied under different rulers in different periods. From the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuan Zhang to the Zheng Tong emperor, the numbers of the Dai toast had increased because of the development of the politics, economy and culture. The Ming dynasty operated some policies in Lu Chuan area changed this region’s situation and the Ming Dynasty had to adjust their policies. So the early term and the mid term policy are very different. The innovation of this doctoral dissertation is the combination of people, events and policies by specific historical figures and events. The Ming rulers such as Zhu Yuan Zhang, Zhu Di and the events "the collapse of Lu Chuan territory" and "the three expeditions to Lu Chuan" show Lu Chuan Si Shi regime ethnic policy in Ming Dynasty, reflecting the impact of people and events on the policies. Then it revealed the limitations of all the major historical events chosen by the rule of man under the feudal autocratic centralized system.Chapter four:annihilation of Lu Chuan Si Shi regime through the history event of "the three expeditions to Lu Chuan" in Ming dynasty. In the course of contacts with the central government, the victory or failure of Lu Chuan regime, the expedition or pacification of the central government, were the ways of their communication. They contacted and understood with each other, which also was the integration process between the frontier and the central government. We should correctly view the pros and cons of Lu Chuan ethnic policy in Ming Dynasty from a historical dimension. Because on the one hand, it had positive and negative impacts on both Ming Dynasty and the Lu Chuan, on the other, it also gradually increased the centripetal force of the Lu Chuan Dai area towards the central government, which enhanced the cohesion of the Chinese nation.Conclusion:There are four viewpoints as follows,First, Lu Chuan’s geographic advantage is an important reason for the establishment of early western Yunnan Dai regime. Second, the policy of "the collapse of Lu Chuan territory" embodies the divide and rule in ethnic areas. Third, the course of practicing the policy of "the three expeditions to Lu Chuan" is from placating to killing, from weak to strong. Forth, Lu Chuan ethnic policy in Ming Dynasty is the epitome of dealing with ethnic relationships in south china.