The Research Of Official’s Charity Ideology And Practice In Westernization Movement Period

The first Opium War broke out when years of closed-door policy in China was broken, which was the greatest change in thousands of years. In order to revitalize this nation, the government of Qing dynasty carried out series of movement for rich and powerful.In the meantime, by the changing of the Open Police of China, charitable ideology of western flowed into china and gradually influent modern philanthropic ideas and career, which also created a new development of modern China Charities. What’s the more, this progress opened an unprecedented prospects in the promotion of modern social development.This paper is divided into four parts for researching the Zeng Guoquan, Zhang Zhidong, and Sheng Xuanhuai in the westernization period of Qing dynasty.There are six parts in the full text which includes foreword, the first chapter、the second、the third、the fourth chapter and ending.The first part summarizes the historical background of China during the Westernization Movement. The Frequent wars, political corruption and natural disasters result in the internal and external negative situation of China. Under the influence and impact of various factors, the Westernization officials of Qing dynasty such as Zhang Zhidong, Zuo zongtang proposed the concept of charity in face of social crises. They tried their efforts to the relief for the common people as their responsibility and play their own official role in solving the people’s livelihood. On this basis, the officials engaging in traditional charity career had extended to the social conditions of modern charitable career. The second part describes three kinds of ideology, the Chinese traditional charity thought origin and heritage, focusing on Confucianism, Buddhism, trace back to its thought origin. As well as the incoming Chinese western charity and social welfare thought, Zuo Zongtang and other four charity idea generation and inheritance. The Confucianist civilian this thought, the thought of great harmony is the main theoretical foundation charity thought of Taoist thought, good to the charity thought moral foundation, the help world relief, goodness of popular religious mission to become later development charity starting point. Western public thought incoming to modern Chinese ideas of charity and social relief brought new content, to a certain extent to the Chinese charity relief and welfare thoughts produced influence character by environment effects.The third part is in example of Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guoquan, Zhang Zhidong and Sheng Xuanhuai, describe the charity and commonweal of the official between the westernization drive. In the period of Chinese society as the breakthrough point, analysis of Zuo Zongtang was charity and public welfare. This chapter is divided into two parts, the first part is the four of them in disaster relief activities, from negative the traditional relief progress to actively prevent the transformation of ideas. The second part mainly described in the public domain, they carried out by the charity. Among them, re-education, welfare-to-work thought they engaged in charity and public welfare undertakings in the basic guiding ideology.The fourth part analyzes the charity welfare characteristics of the Westernization Movement period officials and the impact on modern society in example of Zuo Zongtang and so on. They are mainly represented by the national government as the main body of relief, but at the same time, they also actively participate in and encourage charitable relief, and its benefit the livelihood of the public welfare undertakings. They carried out by the charity and public welfare practice on the modern society is relatively stable and the protection of social productive forces play a positive role.Conclusion it with a correct understanding and an objective evaluation of the official in westernization, and evaluate they progressive and limitations.