The Research On The Luxury Style Of Jiangsu And Zhejiang Provinces In The Ming Dynasty

The critical standard ofevaluating the extravagance and thrift in the Ming Dynasty's was not the level of the social economic development taht under the social conditions at that time,but the traditional values of Confucianism.The people's living standard was limited to the simple level of a rough food,it was regarded as extravagance when transcended this standard.The early Ming Dynasty,due to the socio-economic depression,the harsh law network and the frugal life style of the emperor ZhuYuan zhang,so the general mood of society is thrifty and simple in the early Ming Dynasty.When it comes to the period of Chenghua and Hongzhi,the situation has changed.The transformation of the general mood of society from thrift into extravagancenwas the result of the combination of various forces.The development of the commodity economy and the improvement of the people's material living standard were the decisive forces to promote the change of the general mood of society,and the loosening of the government's control to the society played a very important role.From this point of view,the extravagant style in the Ming Dynasty was just a kind of new and common life style that to accommodate the social-economic development and formed gradually.The full text is divided into six parts.The introduction mainly introduces the origin of choosing the topic,the research theory and method and the research significance,the current research and the shortages of the previous research.The second part discusses the modern interpretation and the several definitions in the history of the concept of the extravagance and the frugality.it deems that the definitions in the history regarding the concept of extravagance and thrift are lack of relative and dynamic standards,and the relativity and variability of the assessing standard of the extravagance and the frugality have been resolved until the modern times.The third part discusses the Ming government's management to the folk's social life in the early Ming Dynasty,the general mood of society and its transformation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang before the period of Chenghua and Hongzhi,the reasons for the changes in the period of Chenghua and Hongzhi,and the general situation and characteristics of the extravagant style in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.The fourth part discusses the guidance and responsibility of the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty on the general mood of society and the criticism and attitude of the ancient literati to the extravagant style.The fifth part discusses the relationship between the extravagant style and the commodity economy and tis social function in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang region in the Ming Dynasty,and points out that the development of the commodity economy is the fundamental premise of the prevalence of the extravagant style,and the extravagant style promotes the development of the commodity economy and it is conducive to solve the employment problem of some people.The sixth part is the conclusion,which is the summary and conclusion of the main content all above,and expressing the author's some new ideas in reference to the extravagant atmosphere in Ming Dynasty.