A Study On The Education

Researches on the development of Mosque Education in Cangzhou and its regional characteristics are of great academic significance, which contributs to deepening the study of Islam in China. Mosque education is the traditional religious education mode of Islam in China. Since the late Qing Dynasty and Republic of China, Cangzhou, of Hebei Province had been become the traditional Islamic Mosque Education Center in the Northern and the Northeastern China. Mosque Education in Cangzhou formed distinct regional features in the historical development:the existence and development of mosque education is deeply influenced by the Confucian culture; the tradition of the ’Loyalty to the monarch and the religion’in history has become the national spirit of the love for the state and the religion in the modern times. The teaching content and the curriculum system of the Mosque Education is relatively stable. And far from theconflicts between sects. Mosque Education in Cangzhou has trained a large number of scholars, who wrote books and propounded ideas, translate the classics to Chinese, featuring the thirteen Chinese translation versions of the Quran in full length.Based on the analysis of the literature about Chinese Islamic Mosque Education especially in the Northern China. This study went deep in the fields. I visited 35 mosques in and around Cangzhou City, and interviewed former and current Imams as well as Khalifahs. Researchers also collected the data on the plaques, couplets and inscriptions from mosques, as well as family trees of the Hui,etc. History and current situation of the mosque education in Cangzhou are analyzed on the basis of literature review and field investigations. The paper, discussed the regional characteristics and predicted the future development trend.This paper has four parts. The first part summarizes the humanistic traditions of Cangzhou, as well as the origin, historical background, migration characteristics of Hui ethnic group in Cangzhou. The second part introduces the history of the Mosque Education in Cangzhou, including the rise, development, prosperity of the historical process and the characteristics of different stages. What’s more, researchers analyzed the changes about the teaching aims, teaching mode and teaching contents. The third part discusseed the regional characteristics of Mosque Education in Cangzhou, investigated its interaction between the Confucian culture and the Hui elites, and introduces the region’s traditions in the fields of teaching contents, teaching system and Chinese translation.The last part explored the current status and the trend of the Mosque Education in Cangzhou, and investigates the practical difficulties and possible solutions.The Mosque Education in Cangzhou rised simultaneously with the mosque education of Shandong School. Cangzhou became the center of Shandong School in the Northern China in the Emperor Kangxi’s reign. After one hundred years of steady development, the imams, such as Li Zhengguang, Hai Situ, recovered the Chinese style of study in the modern times, and trained the Three Outstanding Islamic Scholars in the Northern China and Imam Wang Jingzhai and other talents, which surpassed Shandong in terms of the personnel training and the Chinese translation at that time, and became the center for the later stage of Shandong School. The mosque Education influenced the territory of the Northern and Northeastern China, centered in Cangzhou and covering Tianjin and some Northern counties of Shandong Province. The mosque education in Cangzhou was demolished in the period of the Religious Reform and the Cultural Revolution, but it was recovered and achieved a certain development in the 1980s. Since the twenty-first Century, under the impact of secularization, there appear the phenomena of decrease of students, waste in teaching resources and the decline of the mousques, and some Imams and believers are struggling to explore a way to the revival of the Mosque Education.