The Study Of The Yang’s Of Jingchuan In Ningbo

At the turn of Ming and Qing dynasties,the development of a new form ofChinese family had occurred,which came into a significant period of the imperialfamily and family culture and family system.Yang Family of Jingchuan,inNingbo,which was a scholarly family for several generations.However,at thebeginning of Ming dynasty,Yang family was hit by the local rich and powerfulfamily so that Yang family had fallen on hard times.Even then,family members stillsticked to the family traditions.Yang Qiwen,Yang Fan and Yang Zicheng werekeeping working hard in order to improve family financial situation.During thisprocess,Yang family gradually became more and more knowledgeable.Started byYang Zicheng,his family had been committed to the imperial examination.AfterYang Shouchen had succeeded in the imperial examination,this family had threeministers in the goverment and ten scholars in five generations.With Yang family’s revitalization,family system and knowledge gradually improved.The Yang’s hadmade a great achievement in philosophy,literature,history,philology and otherareas,especially Yang Shouchen’s achievement.Till the late of Ming dynasty,theedge of the Yang family was gradually cost in the competition of the imperialexamination.Among their offsprings,most of them benefited from their ancestorsthat made them can get into imperial court.Yang’s descendants gradually steeredfrom the imperial examination to literary composition.Yang family was keeping working in scholar field,which impacted greatlyinfluence on the Panentheism(a Confucian school of idealist philosophy of the Songand Ming Dynasties),gradually formed a loyal and resolute family tradition. At theturn of Ming and Qing dynasties,the Yangs chose against the Qing dynasty.This kindof political orientation made the Yangs suffered a major blow.In regard to the rise and fall of the Yang family in Jingchuan,the family cultureand family institution had a close relation.The Yang family’s revitalization causedthe heritage from family culture.As the representative of "Yi"(The Book Of Change)handed down in this family,which improved the competitiveness of the Yangs inimperial examination.From the external factors,it major related to the national policy such as the rules of imperial examination and pursuit and mission ofthemselves and etc..However,the national policies played a significant role in thedecision.Because of the imperial examination policy,the Yang family rose in Mingdynasty.Hence, as the same reason we mentioned above, which directly led to twicedecline of the Yang family at the beginning and the ending in Ming dynasty.Theseexternal important factors are beyond the family role but still emerged from thefamily history.It is an epitome of The Ming and Qing dynasties for those imperialfamilies, like the Yangs.The study of the Yang family helped us realize the formand function of the Ming and Qing ’s families. Meanwhile, the study of the Yangfamily extent the research on the Zhedong eastern cultural studies.