The Simple Research Of The Nongovernmental Warlock In Ming Dynasty

Nongovernmental warlock is a group who make a living to maintain specific skills such as doctors,diviners,wizards and so on.The nongovernmental warlocks of Ming Dynasty were active in each societal class,and they influenced the Ming Dynasty's political life and the social culture.From the political aspect, they had a close relation with the royalty.The Ming Dynasty emperors had blind faith in alchemies,favored warlocks so deeply that the warlocks intervened the state affairs.Moreover, the warlocks played an influential role in the Ming Dynasty all previous peasant wars.From the social cultural aspect,the warlocks' affected the whole culture of social life,and the ruling class had a strong interest in alchemies.Although the nongovernmental warlocks had the obvious fraudulence and the mendacious ingredient,its contents covered the fields of astronomy,calendar,geography,chemistry,health and many categories of natural science.It had the positive perception for the nature and had partly scientific elements.The nongovernmental warlocks were in the process of walking the all corners of the country with a combination of all levels of society to create a "the nongovernmental culture" relative to the mainstream culture in the upper class.The nongovernmental culture had the mobility, fraudulence,secrecy,and certain anti-social nature.Both the nongovernmental culture and confucianism as the center of mainstream culture were social phenomena of refraction in the field of culture,both of which constituted the bright Chinese traditional culture together. Therefore,taking the nongovernmental warlocks and nongovernmental culture as the object of study,it had the important academic and practical significance.Firstly,it broadens the research field of the history and social history.For a long time,the focus of historical research was in the political history,economic history and cultural history,but the nongovernmental warlocks and nongovernmental culture rooted in the lower classes,also was important areas of society research.Secondly,it strengthens the study of traditional Chinese culture.The nongovernmental culture reflected the life of the runagate class in the lower class.Researching the nongovernmental culture will help us better understand and study the traditional Chinese culture. Thirdly,it can provide each other's experience for the people nowadays.Some nongovernmental alchemy which the nongovernmental warlocks are engaged in is still affecting our lives.So,to learn and study the nongovernmental culture can help us better distinguish affairs between right and wrong.