Research On Family Precept Of Official Career Thought Of Ming Dynasty

Family Chinese traditional family admonish is the sermon handed down by ancestors and existing by the form of words, which mostly based on the Confucian ethicthought---kernel thought of chinese traditional family admonish. It combined different periods and diffrent backgrounds and experiences of it's creators, recording the ideological trend and character change in every era with a unique perspective. The author researched family admonish of official class in Ming dynasty based on Confucian ethicthought, guided by independent volume of official class's family admonish, combining literature of genealogy and family rules and scattered poetry,article and letters which were passed down. By analyzing five aspects of official class's family admonish in Ming dynasty---developing the individual nature, making family harmony, engaging in scholarship, striving for the livelihood and governing the country as official and comparing with family admonish of other times and classes longitudinally and transversely, the author clearde up the essential feature, detail content and development of Ming dynasty official class group's family admonish.Except some gains and losses changes because of time variation, Ming dynasty official class group's family admonish basically inherited the thought essence of predecessors. For excemple, the respect of developing the individual nature consistently inherit this thought. At the same, content of health care increased significantly, especially looking for the traditional Chinese medicine, controlling desire and protecting vital essence. And such as at the aspect of managing family's economy, by the reason of the prosperity of urban economy and hardship of exams for official career, official class group changed the tradition that is shaming on material needs actively or passively and relax the limitation of career choices, which leaded to a diversified choice trend----"All the jobs can be found".Due to the special social background and official class group of Ming dynasty, it formed the culture of Ming dynasty official class group's family admonish, and the culture promoted good family tradition's formation in turn. As two important aspects for human civilization progress, material and spirit, none can be omitted. Spiritual demands will become urgent when material civilization reached a a certain level. Today, to be the bridge of classic culture and common customs, amily admonish has unique vitality and no matter for the personal accomplishment or social progress, it has important function to inspire life and educate quality.