Historical Memory And Political Symbol

When Hairui was in power in ChunAn, Xingguo and Yingtian,In view of the maladministration,he widely reformed. In the aspect of management, He punished corruption criminals, prohibited bribery, putting off redundant officials. Economically, The overannexation of land was prohibited, built Wu Song jiang, woosuing river water conservancy projects, etc.A regulatory, selecting competent officials, strict inspection and supervision system, severely punished official offence. Although this is partly for service to the feudal ruling class,some extremists may also exist in the process of the reform, he will be loyal to the monarch and care for the people, to be honest and clean, the spirit of not fearing the power is widely recognized. When Hairui died, wan li emperor thought Hairui’s spirit was conducive to maintaining the feudal rule, in the memory of Hairui, he ordered to hold a grand memorial to him at his hometown.Although. Hairui’s colleagues were not satisfied with Hairui’s some strange behaviors, Hairui fearless, the spirit of honesty, integrity and candor touched them, they were not only involved in the activity in the memory of Hairui, also wrote a lot of things about Hairui,these records of which help future generations know that Hairui’s story, Hairui’s spirit has spread far and wide. Ordinary people are more eager to the officials like Hairui who are not afraid of the emperor, after folk scholars shaping the image of Hairui’s loyal and honest further sublimation, a very wide spread between people. Overall, the ruling class to Hairui’s moral model is established, is used to regulate the behavior of officials.However, due to the social demand, Hairui has become a loyal and honest symbol.In the late Ming and early Qing dynasty, Hairui’s loyalty and integrity of the image was set up.From the Qing dynasty to the period of the republic of China, the image of Hairui’s loyalty and integrity further thorough popular feeling, officials at all levels and plebeian inhabitants to Hairui respect, embodied in all kinds of literary biography and the emergence of the novel.In modern times, although Hairui has experienced a tortuous process of evaluation, but with the passage of time, research on Hairui’s evaluation is becoming more and more objective.