The Ming Dynasty's Fidelity Culture

The Ming dynasty was a period during which Chinese feudal autocratic monarchy was unprecedented consolidated. In this period, the ruling class intensified their ruling to the people not only in politics and law, but especially in ideology and culture. Thus the ruling class of successive Ming Dynasties advocated and paid more attention to the theory of Confucianist"filial piety"this phenomena caused that the theory of Confucianist"filial piety"was related to every field of society, such as politics, law and morality. In this paper, proceeding from"The biography of filialness in Ming Dynasty"with other historical events, the writer illustrates the development of"filial piety"in Ming Dynasty with the method of the union of the historical events and discussion.My introduction is divided into two parts. At first filialness and piety have had more plentiful and perfect meaning until Ming Dynasty with the development of history. So it is necessary to briefly elaborate this problem. Through the analysis, we find that filialness and piety have obvious overlap and coincidence between them. So we can regard filialness and piety as one word to discuss. After giving the definition of"filial piety", the writer has introduced the present situation of"filial piety"culture in Ming Dynasty in this paper, but nobody had ever made an overall and thorough research in the academic circles. So we only can find a little clue from the present research situation.In the first chapter, the writer has introduced the main form of expression of the"filial piety"culture in Ming Dynasty. We can find out the main five forms of expression of the"filial piety"culture in Ming Dynasty from"The biography of filialness in Ming Dynasty".They are as following: firstly, filial obedience is the greatest virtue. Secondly, living together with the elder generations. Thirdly, the ceremony of the kinsfolk's death. Fourthly, to search the kinsfolk and die for the parents. Lastly, to take out money to help the poor. Though the forms of expression of"filial piety"are different, they all adere to the traditional idea of filial obedience of the theory of Confucianist. We have found the clue that the ruling class highly advocated to the filial obedience in Ming Dynasty through our analysis of the forms of expression of"filial piety"In the second chapter, the writer recounts and analyses the promotion and protection to"filial piety"of Ming Dynasty in detail. The ruling class in Ming Dynasty enhanced to advocate the"filial piety"mainly in politics, education and old—age care. In order to put the"filial piety"into effect better, the ruling class in Ming Dynasty reinforced the conformity to the people in law and ethics.In politics,"filial piety"is closely related to the selection of officials. The ruling class in Ming Dynasty regarded"filial piety"as the standard and basis of judging and choosing officials and brought it into the personnel system, Which is an very important expression of"filial piety"in politics advocated by Ming Dynasty. The customs and morality of respecting and fostering the elders lay solid foundations for the generation, development and continuance of Chinese traditional"filial piety"With the of Leading of ZhuYuanzhang, The customs of respecting and fostering the elders were increased day by day. They not only held the ceremony of drinking, but bulit the two pavilions named sheng ming pavilion and shi shan pavilion to continuously raise the elder's position. From the point of fostering the elders, the government bestowed the goods to the elders and reduced the taxes and bulit the help organization for them to guarantee the rights and interests of the elders. In education,"filial piety"was laid very important place in Ming Dynasty. All the people emphasized the content of"filial piety", not only in school education, but in the family education, from the common people to the emperor. Under the advocation of Ming Dynasty, the custom of"filial piety"was flourished in the whole society.In order to ensure the successful performance of"filial piety", the ruling calss of Ming Dynasty had strengthened to control people in law and ethics. In"Law of Ming Dynasty", the people who are not in accordance with filial were regared the one who commit one of the ten crimes. The people who are not in accordance with filial would be punished seriously. In this way, the elders'position was guaranteed in law and a lot of contents were added in judicial action. The regulation of women's keeping vigil beside the coffin was emphasized. In one sense, as a social ethics, morals was performed by the aids of the guidance and encouragement of social public opinion. The activity of the discussion of"filial piety"had a better social effect to the spread of the culture of"filial piety".In the third chapter, the writer mainly introduced the main characters of the culture of"filial piety"in Ming Dynasty. From the points of the expressions and performance of"filial piety", the culture of"filial piety"appears to be more popular, exceeding and fatuous in Ming Dynasty. Through the highly advocation and protection, the culture of"filial piety"became more popular and easy to understand in common people in Ming Dynasty. But at the same time, the extremely fatuous filialness was formed in some local places.The fourth chapter main introduction is the fidelity culture the concrete influence which produces to the Ming Dynasty society. The fidelity implementation not only has stabilized the Ming Dynasty's social order, moreover has enriched the Ming Dynasty society culture content. Forms takes in the family the fidelity education fine tradition, simultaneously to the literary arts, the social populace lives all has the positive influence. Certainly, the folk while imitates the loyal son filial woman line "the filial piety lifts", also not good produces to compete the wind. Causes for a long time to bury thick mourning, to become common practice, when some dig the stock shears the liver phenomenon also occurs, has also had the very bad influence to then society.At the end of this essay, it concluded the Ming Dynasty fidelity culture initiative implementation situation, more emphasized how we should treat the traditional culture. Takes its essence, abandons its dregs. Can cause it to be better serves for us.