Study On Clan Education In Late Qing Dynasty

As a special group in the Qing Dynasty,the reasons of kinship make it closely attached to the ruler around.The sons of the royal clan are regarded as the pillars of the country and have high hopes are placed on them.In the early and middle period of the Qing Dynasty,all the emperors are attached great importance to the education of their sons,grandsons and their clans,and their royal families,cultivated a large number of clan talents.As time went on to the late Qing Dynasty,the prosperity of the country declined,the traditional clan education failed miserably.At the same time,under the influence of westernization education and reform education,people put forward the idea of reforming clan education successively.In order to adapt to the development of The Times and revive the style of the Qing Dynasty,the Qing government carried out the new policy.The reform involved many fields,and the education was also one of its important contents,it was urgent to build a school and store up for talents,new educational phenomena such as abolishing imperial examinations,running schools,sending study tour,etc.gradually.As the successor of the Qing dynasty,the imperial family took on the important task of running the country and saving the country from danger,and their educational reform measures have also attracted much attention.Clan education and the national education reform synchronously,the establishment of a relatively perfect clan education system.The Qing government built a large number of new style clan schools,focusing on the development of military and political education,and innovated the development of study tour education.In the process of carrying out implementation,the clan education combines the actual needs with future development,showing the characteristics of service,privilege,flexibility,transplantation and duality in terms of curriculum settings,teaching environment,education mode,and management system.As the education reform of the imperial clan was completed under the leadership of the Qing government from beginning to end,the educational clan was bound to maintain its own rule.Through this educational transformation,it really showed the determination of the Qing government to reform education,and also changed the ideas and behaviors of the clan children.Of course,the shortcomings are also clearly visible,the imperial education reform in the late Qing Dynasty was carried out under the Qing government’s compulsion,and the mark of The Times still exists.Feudalism was still infused into teaching,which made it difficult to break out of traditional education rut,Therefore,the whole clan education system was equipped with the utilitarian educational values that served the ruling clique and maintained the imperial power carefully.As the same time,the clan children themselves enjoyed many privileges,and their superior social status intensified their aristocratic psychology,showing a lack of enthusiasm in learning,disinterested in learning and so on,resulting in little effect,let alone hard to understand the good intentions of the Qing court.This article takes the late imperial Qing Dynasty clan education as the research object,puts it in the difficult time situation to carry on the inspection,trying to sort out the main content of the clan education reform in this period of the late Qing Dynasty,then analyzes the characteristics of the clan education reform in the late Qing Dynasty on this basis,and finally make an objective evaluation on it.