An Initial Discussion On The Scribe Of Local Government In The Qing Dynasty

Scribe is one of China’s feudal society,a very important group, who are thebridge between the government and the people, vital to the ruling group. They havedespised as well as praised aspect. In this thesis, the Qing dynasty state scribe as theinvestigation object, study its source, election, daily activities, supervision andmanagement, and explore this special group of social activity and its historical statusand role.The article related to scribe, tone is almost the same, people often describedthem as the marauding crafty stick, often under the cloth of official power, satisfingthemselves; dressed in the coat of feudal laws, such as “wolves Leopard Tiger”suppression of the people; such as worms corrosion of the government, beetlepolitical harm people.However, the academic standpoint is not the same, it was alsodisagree that although the identity of the humble clerks,it is the most effectivegovernment agency minions, for the firm, maintaining social stability regime plays anindelible role, in the community background, which show a “evil”,“the flood beast”,the government emphasizes the scribe’s one side, can not respect of all the scribe. Itcan be seen as scribe under the feudal rule of law here will appear in group, how dowe think about the scribe who carries on distinct social image? I believe that,thescribe, of course has its hateful place, but it is not useless, they are familiar with thebusiness, specializes in the case, understand the country and the people, is the bridgebetween officials and the people, in many ways still reflects the positive significance.If its image was positioned in the “corrupt”,“wolves leopard tiger”, I do not agree,such evaluation would be unfair. Scribe are not “ascourge” under the officialdiscourse, oppressed people, the majority of scribe are still loyal to the facts and thelaw,protecting the people.At present people to the delineation of evaluation can not contain delineationgroup all image.This article with scribe in Qing county as the research object, on thebasis of chorography, ancient books and other historical material, in a static official,archives, local history and other information for the study, on the other hand, throughthe adoption of specific examples to demonstrate in the judicial practice reflecting thedelineation of the function and regulation of scribe and other issues, in order to re-sortthe image of petty officials to make a fair and proper evaluation. This paper includesthe following several parts: at the first part is introduction: The author reviews theorigin and significance of the topic, the current status of academic research as well asscribe and other research methods. The second part is summary of delineation: the description of delineation is mainly from the following aspects: definition of theconcept, the type and its history.The third chapter is the selection and appointment:This section describes the selection of scribe, the main sources and other ways; andthe admission of scribe.The next is the heavy part of the article, discussing the imagesof the Qing county scribe: people often say:“officials clear watery, scribe smooth asoil,”although many scribe indeed manifested in many aspects too mercenary, evil,poisonous, but it does not conclude all images, a large number of the scribe alwaysmake every effort to help in handling matters, the image of the scribe defined as evilas ghost, may be unfair. Fifth, supervision and management of the scribe: scribe areprofessional law in the judicial practice, actually manipulate the judicial and politicalin the Qing Dynasty, therefore, the scribe was thought a powerful organization. Sothe local government took various a lot of measures. Including the legal aspects ofsupervision, judicial supervision. The last part of the article is about the evaluation ofscribe, including ancient people, modern people, and giving own my own views. Howto view their role accurately, is the highlight of the whole paper. Although scribe offeudal rule has certain hazards, as well as positive aspect, they are the official tie withthe people, who can control the government power.In the thesis, we grasp the qing dynasty states delineation of real life situation,and make it more easier to understand our legal culture in today’s society. Inaddition,the scribe of the qing dynasty states in the advantages and disadvantages ofsome phenomenon in the analysis of our current society also has realistic meaning.