A Research On The Jinshi Of Shaanxi Province In Ming Dynasty

As the most important officials and personnel selection methods in ancient China, the imperial examination system has already formed a perfect one in Ming Dynasty. Scholars selected by the imperial examination naturally become the key direction of historiography research. This paper will focus on Jinshi Group in Shaanxi considering the statistics.The geographical environment of Shaanxi in the early Ming Dynasty is bad as well as Mongolia the frontiers of the regime, the threat of war and the volatile social environment. All of these make the examination official the best way to survive and change their destiny.The first chapter mainly focuses on the research of Shaanxi Jinshi of89 families of the Ming Dynasty according to various basic historical materials and textual. The results showed that Jinshi passing civil examinations of Shaanxi in Ming Dynasty become the third place.The second chapter pays attention to the general situation and characteristics of the temporal and spatial distribution of Shaanxi scholars in Ming Dynasty. Scholars of Shaanxi in Ming dynasties accounted for the national proportion is few. Great changes had been happened in each period with the cut-off points Erik and Longqing. is not more than ten before Chenghua, while it has added to more than 13 after that. Becauseof the decline of Ming,it develops irregularly. About spatial distribution,most of the scholars comes from Xi’an and Fengxiang house the politics,economic and cultural centers.Due to the social environment and slow economic development scholars in other peripheral areas are few.The third chapter introduces the origin of scholars in Shaanxi and officials. At that time the scholars mostly come from the army and the civil registry, the official. However they come from the army and the official from the set-up of Ming to chenghua. After that, the development of origin of scholars shows diversity. Most scholars were in their twenties and thirties. The young and the old were few. In Ming dynasty, the ancestors of scholars were officials. This plays a very important role.Three stages on career: first, the small number of Shaanxi scholars were officials. Second, the number of Shaanxi scholars becoming officials was rising from Chenghua to Zhengde years. Third, high officials from Shaanxi scholars were few from Jiajing to the late Ming. Generally speaking, Shaanxi scholars’ position was law, few people came into the core area.The last chapter focuses on the irreplaceable role of scholars.especially on promoting political, social stability and the happiness of people. The achievements made by scholars on social governance will exist forever.