Research On Huizhou Social Customs And Governance During The Ming And Qing Dynasties

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the active of commodity economy, the social population flow speed, with the political corruption and runaway social norms, there appear a lot of domestic abuse in social transformation period of huizhou. Bankrupt businessman, because of the heavy taxes and corvee, landless farmers become the main force of unemployed, lazy, idle,’re incapable is their typical characteristics. Their work honestly, specializing in some trafficking, gambling, stealing others’ property, disturb the normal social order, corrupt social conduct, interfere with the normal people live. Lured by geomantic superstition say, some people in order to seek high ground in order to save the later riches and honour peace, often several years or decades and stop coffin was buried, exposed to them, the ethics in Confucianism, family, parents, feng shui and so on are not; In addition also appeared in the process of the funeral as a buddhist, the music, drinking carnivorous violations phenomenon, and practice, held to meet god games such as superstitious activities; On the idea of money influence and social luxuries wind, under the stimulus of some deals with matter of the worm, been caned, there are the rulers of the people with the help of a special identity yourselves fat to accumulate, fish people; Still others covet enjoyment, spend a lot of money to introduce a whore, corrupt customs. The emergence of various kinds of unhealthy practices in huizhou this formal simplicity of the township, demon childhood make-up the flow of flood, turbidity of weathering. Is hit by neo-confucianism on the basis of traditional ethical code of ethics, and challenges the long-term constraints of people’s legal system, promoted the political corruption, hindered the judicial justice. The domestic abuse as opposed to a past that period to show some new characteristics, such as complex, with the help of government forces to do the wrong things. Wide range, combined with people daily entertainment activities; Damage deep involves many fields, etc. In the face of many domestic abuse, huizhou local government or the huizhou clan have taken various measures to governance, in order to rectify the social order, to purify the social atmosphere of mesh. In Ming and qing government enacted the law of gambling, theft, stop coffin, buried been caned, corruption and other domestic abuse has special provisions, the violators to give severe punishment; Huizhou government comply with national law, combining the reality of huizhou, more in the form of a notice, ban on gambling and other custom management; Huizhou clan is more is to rely on ZuGui French to exhort, constraints of families’ children, to educate and clan punishment custom combination of governance, hope to be able to achieve transform social traditions, restore ancient chun wind, TaoCheng very kind kindness of common purpose. But in the end the effect is not very ideal, all kinds of custom in the late qing dynasty, there are still appear until the period of the republic of China. Because social gap between rich and poor is increasingly widening, lead to free from the "four people" unemployed more into the custom of the participants and organizers, the prohibition makes domestic abuse. Among them, the centralized rule weakened Ming and qing dynasties, political corruption, the problem of the official incompetence, moral decay, the reason of Confucian ethics is out of control, also has the controller itself is weak and the cause of governance measures to weaken.