Naturalization And Confused: Study On "Tangled" Historians Group During The Early Qing Period

There had been great changes in society when the dynasty alternated from Ming to Qing. It was at this time, scholars divided into different groups according to their different political positions. As an important part of the scholars class, the historians also divided into three groups.The "tangled" historians group is a special section of three historian groups because of their contradictory and painful mood.In combination with historians’political positions and cultural positions, and dividing the limit between "tangled" historians and adherents historians and collaborative historians, the author defines the concept of "tangled" historians. On the basis of the concept, the author adds up the number of "tangled" historians and determines the range of "tangled" historian group. On the whole, "tangled" historians vacillated between The Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty and both held posts in the Qing dynasty, but they acquitted like adherents on the cultural position, missed the Ming dynasty and regretted for being an official in the Qing dynasty. When "tangled" historians lived in the Qing dynasty, in order to obtain forgiveness and a place for living, they focused on the history and wrote numerous history books about the Ming dynasty, in this way, they saved the history of the Ming dynasty and expressed their nostalgic mood. However, oppressed by the Qing dynasty, "tangled" historians can only hidden their real emotion when writing books, and had to avoid some sensitive content concerning the Qing dynasty, just like their actual life in the Qing dynasty, they were in strife-torn embarrassment. On the one hand, although "tangled" historians were eager to be understood and full of remorse, they can’t tell the truth of the suffering; on the other hand, they also bore the Qing dynasty’s suspicion and public opinion’s censure. To some extent, their historical content was similar to their destiny, emerged a deep feeling of contradiction,opposition,pain and sadness.By writing, "tangled" historian group took part in constructing a new cultural order in the Qing dynasty, compared with the other two historian groups, their expression of how to rebuild cultural order was indefinite, due to their group’s smaller scale, they were marginalized. But "tangled" historian group was still a special section because of their contribution and characteristic in the area of history.