The Relationship Betweem Wei-suo System?Household Registration And Clan In South Fujian From 14 To 18 Century

Wei-so system and the household registration system were two interactions of the Ming empire to achieve local control,which took a profound impact on the historical process of regional society and grassroots people's life.From the perspectives of "bottom-up" and "up and down",this paper examines the practice and influence of Wei-so system and household registration system in the local society of southern Fujian from the 14 th to 18 th centuries,and analyzes how the dynasty system makes the regional social structure and daily life happen.This paper try to break the boundary of system study of history and social studies of region,and combine the dynasty system with daily life,so as to outline the living situation of ordinary people."To guard the country with military forces,to rule the country by civil administration" which profoundly reflects the relationship of the Wei-so system and administrative system.In the early Ming Dynasty,the Wei-so in Fujian were established to play a role in anti-Japanese and the local anti-chaos.From the Wei-so's space layout,the Ming empire have set up a series of Wei-so around mountains in central Fujian,to defend against bandits.These Wei-so were often equipped with the characteristics of the real type of administration,which took place of administrative officials to manage the local people and to exercise the judicial power and so on.The military-type Wei-so also brought the abuse of power,contributed to the military-style Wei-so to change the county.The military domicile system was the basis of the military system.The collapse of it which weakened the military function of the Wei-so system and led to the military system transformation of the Ming Dynasty to the recruitment system.Tuntian was an important component of the Wei-so military system.its evolution was also closely integrated with the local community.Wei-so's self-sufficiency in logistics decreased,which led to Wei-so's military function weakened,so the original meaning of Tuntian.From the perspective of regional research,obstruction form vested interest group in military officers is an important factor to fail the political reform in the late Ming Dynasty.The military domicile system promoted the family organization and strengthens the family cohesion.By taking advantage of loopholes of military domicile system and householdsystem to achieve arbitrage,so that military families went beyond the country system barriers.Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty,the military officers class began to establish schools actively.After the establishment of the schools,civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats began to intervene in Wei-so education,and master the initiative.Thus,they gradually built a set of Confucianism and symbolism system.The scholarly class constructed the clan organization with the patriarchal ideology of Neo-Confucianism,so that the family of this period completes the change from the customary family organization to the scholar-bureaucrat transformation of the organizationWei-so the household registration system were also the cultural sense of the crowd classification.Due to the distinction between household registration and organization,self-identity of the military families and ordinary people took shape gradually.Their living space were intertwined with each other,which making both of them conflict and integration in the process of regional history.Finally,Wei castle changed from a simple military fortress into a common social living space of them.