Plague Of Locusts In The Ming Dynasty And Social Response

The Ming Dynasty is that high frequency, great grade, wide rage of the disaster among the Chinese history of locust plague, which gravely affected economical political and the folk custom. As for the control of locust plague, the people of The Ming Dynasty held the precaution measures like dynasties and perfected, for example the relieving measures, the method of exempting form tax payment, the way of mobilizing maize, the lending facility, the method of catching kill locust and so on. In particular, the content of the method of exempting form tax payment become richer, and more scientific and reasonable the method of catching kill locust became. Besides, the method of averting disasters was adopted to deal with the plague of locust, such as self-condemnation, benevolent projects, quitting to tide over a crop failure, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods and so on. Among these several ways, that self-condemnation, benevolent projects, quitting were widely adopted and applied by the emperor and government officials, but within Main Street, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods has been existent, of course the approach is non-minority in Government officials.With the prevalence of ethos of exterminating the disaster, the faith of gods about locusts also is gradually becoming various. Species of the god of locusts, which The Ming dynasty people worshipped, is also increasing, such as the god of Ba Zha、the god of the brave general Liu、 the shoots god、the Emperor Taizong、PeiJin male、Boji etc. The faith of gods about locusts later evolved into customs, and to make up the Region Culture Characteristic. For instance "Insect lady day" on June6th, and " the shoots society " of Jiangnan Region. The faith or the ethos gradually became part of Chinese culture relieving policies as time goes on.This paper mainly studied from five parts. It includes the introduction、the first chapter、the second chapter、the three chapter and The conclusion part. The introduction summarizes previous research results, this paper simply pointed out the reason of choose the theme, the thinking of this paper, and proved the significance of choosing this topic and the innovation of the article. The first chapter comprehensively and systematically tell the truth about The Ming Dynasty’s locust plague, the reason of appear, and harm. The second chapter mainly discusses the Ming Dynasty’s government adopted the treatment before and after the locust plague happened. The third chapter mainly elaborates the method of averting disasters, among the latter of them, discusses and analyzes the condition of Rang disaster about The Ming Dynasty People from all walks of life and problem wit the faith of gods about locusts. The conclusion part proclaims that The Ming Dynasty is the important of Chinese history of locust plague and the eliminating of locusts and the hallmark of Dynasty by himself.