A Study Of The Regulation Of Granting Holidays To Government Officials During The Ming Dynasty

The so-called research of the Regulation of Granting Holidays to GovernmentOfficials, mainly observated from double angle of government and the officials, andanalysed the conducted activities of the Ming Dynasty officials about three types ofunconventional matters of mothering, DingYou and sick leaving. Different from thepast simple same research on taking the system text as the breakthrough point, thisarticle will focus on the “production concept of the system” and “the actual operationof the system”. In order to glimpse of the full view of the Regulation of GrantingHolidays to Government Officials and a corner of the political life, they will researchthe “production concept�'system text�'actual operation�'system text”.The first chapter “the officials visiting parents system in the Ming Dynasty”,mainly discusses the historical evolvement and the specific performance of the system.The production concept of the system is the reason why allowing officials to leave.The actual operation of the visiting parents system in Ming Dynasty derived fourcases: the tricking visiting parents which is due to the selfishness, the forbiddenvisiting parents which is due to the public, the convenient visiting parents which isdue to both one and the obeying visiting parents which is for interest.The second chapter “DingYou to leave system in Ming Dynasty”, mainly discussesthe historical evolvement and the specific performance in Ming Dynasty of the system.Including the person to leave, applicable object, time limit, the procedure and theforbidden behavior and the punishment and so on. It analyses the production conceptof the system, and considers of the human and political requirements. The actualoperation of the DingYou leave system in Ming Dynasty derived three cases: obey thesystem; unseen in order to avoid DingYou and froud loss to DingYou; governmentforbids obeying the system.The third chaper “the officials sick to leave system in Ming Dynasty”, mainlydiscusses the historical evolvement and the specific performance of the system inMing Dynasty. Compareing with the past time, the concept of the system presentssome characteristics of detailed classifying, cumbersome procedures, tightly prevent.The actual operation in the Ming Dynasty derived the phenomenons of “officials askfor personal benefits through making use of illness methord”.The conclusion partly indicates, through combing the rules of the system, we canclearly see that the constantly adjust to the system is the direct response of theproblems in the practical operation. Taking this opportunity, the system will graduallybecome perfect. However, due to the existance of the affair, the violation and covertuse of the system has never disappeared.