On The Important Status Of Commercial Society In The Southeast Coastal China During The Modernization Of Ming And Qing

After entering the 21 st century,great achievements have been made in the modernization of our country.Emphasis on institutional self-confidence and cultural self-confidence has increasingly become an important part of China's modernization.The self-confidence of the system and culture must be closely linked with national traditions and collective experience.This requires modernization theory to rethink the relationship between modernity and tradition.Before the last century,all countries were following a series of so-called modern standards.This was actually a kind of "short modernization" thinking,and it was chasing the West with the traditional way of breaking.The success or failure experience of modernization in various regions of the world in the 20 th century tells us that the most important issue for the modernization of any country is the exploration of many factors conducive to modernization in its own historical society,that is,the function adaptation of the traditional in the modernization process.Therefore,from the perspective of the "Long Modernization" theory,this article studies the important position of the Southeast coastal commercial society in the modernization process of China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Through research,we have drawn the conclusions of the modernization process in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: First,in the middle and late Ming Dynasty,the southeast coastal commercial system promoted a large-scale population mobility,which had a major impact on the scale and function of the family.Individuals gradually got rid of the primary groups and moved towards society.An important step towards the modern social structure.Second,a large number of industrial and commercial workers have moved to cities,organized associations and public halls,and in constant adaptation to the new social and economic environment,they have continuously improved the structure and function of social organizations and finally realized rationalization.Third,the interests of industrial and commercial practitioners and derivative groups cannot be recognized in traditional agriculture.Through the organization of secret associations and long-term conflicts with single authorities,it has an unshirkable position in promoting the development of traditional monolithic societies into modern pluralistic authoritative societies.Fourth,the commercialization of the southeastern region of the Ming and Qing dynasties changed the purely administrative nature of Chinese cities for the first time.The economic substitution of politics and the military has become the major impetus for urban progress and promotedthe division of urban society.The increasing number of urban social affairs are also under the leadership of the gentry and managed by the civic self-government organizations,cultivating citizen awareness.Fifth,with the reversal of the status of industry and commerce,agriculture,urban and rural areas in the social economy,and the transformation of social mobility mechanisms,the traditional elite knowledge system centered on the concept of justice and interest began to collapse,and the public discourse knowledge in the form of novels and plays Began to establish its status,part of the "scholarship" has become a landmark turning the labor force into a traditional to modern change of discourse power.Tradition and modernity are not opposite ends.It is impossible to separate them in a realistic historical society at a certain point in time.Tradition and modernity are a process of gradual progress and sublation.All current social structures and systems are rooted in the local historical society.The sense of rupture between tradition and modernity comes from the acceleration of modernization,but the initial slow foundation cannot be ignored.