A Study Of Confucianism In The Ming And Qing Dynasties

Jitian is a sort of property peculiar to china, which is one of clan field and becomes the economic basic for preserving patriarchal system. The affairs of state are only war and Worship ceremony. The purpose is to set Jitian to protect family worship ceremony normally. Worship ceremony needs sacrifice and implements and ritual. Places of Worship ceremony shrine needs to be founded. Genealogy needs to be modified. Above of those need a lot of fund, and source of fund relies on land rent income of family Jitian. There are three main sources of Confucian Jitian.Firstly, the land was granted by the emperor. Especially, Zhu Yuanzhang had given the field “two thousand hectares "for the most. The land was mainly divided into “five villages four chang eighteen guanzhuang. Secondly, investment and donations offered sacrifices field. Finally, land reclamation. The heyday of Confucian had Jitian, study field and private field, which were ten thousand ares. They were located in over 30 counties within Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei etc. Confucian set up hook hall for effective management to the field. Its main responsibility were Tax levy, Tenant household register management, Land disputes. Confucian had different management measures on the land. However, peasant uprising and war, natural disasters and managers stolen and sold Jitian, which caused the loss of land.Confucian had taken a series of measures to prevent the field of the lost. For example, Lu yuanzhuang set a stone tablet in order to a division of land boundary article.Due to the particularity of Confucian historical position, the Jitian was the material basis of Confucian, and it was Confucian daily life consumption the economic source. So, the change of the field inevitably had the influence of Confucian sacrifice as well as the cost of living. This paper use research methods such as the history and sociology and combination of Confucian and shandong local history data, which is based on Confucian Jitian as the breakthrough point. From Confucian the field source, distribution, management and influence on Confucian and other aspects, strive to give everyone present full complete research.