A Study On The Crime Of Chenghua Time In Ming Dyansty

Content: Cheng-Hua-Period is a transition time in the Ming Dynasty, having the vital significance to understood the Ming Dynasty history. The crime is the social reality product, also the social phenomenon which displayed by the individual concrete criminality. Therefore, the crime phenomenon is one of the best perspective about social reality and social development.Therefore, this article take the Cheng-Hua-Period's crime as the research object, analyze these period's characteristic from the crime angle. According to "the Ming Dynasty Law" and the historical data analysis, this article divided the Cheng-Hua-Period's crime plots into the seven kind of types: such as the rebellion crime, the thought word decides on the nature of the guilt, the infringing property crime, the economic crime, the encroaching the person and the correlation right crime, the duty crime, the destructing family ethics crime and so on. In all types of the crime, the property crime and the economic crime appear outstandingly. This point and the massive ordinary populace participating in the crime as well as the crime having not the controllability are the Cheng-Hua-Period crime's three major characteristics. The social background of the Cheng-Hua-Period's criminal characteristic mainly to manifest in five aspects: The commodity economy developments, the political regulation declines, the authority loses, the social convention actives and the famines take place frequently. The Cheng-Hua-Period's crime although has the general crime destruction of social order, causes the society to move towards disorder and so on the negative effect. It causes the society to lift a ban, to urge the social laws and regulations, the system to consummate, promote the overseas trade and so on the positive role to be also not allow to be neglected. We can know by analyzing the Cheng-Hua-Period's crime, the Cheng-Hua-Period's society all have the liberation in various aspects, assume the development trend. But this kind of developments aren't the results of the ruler's rationality pondering and manages diligently, and it going forward by inherent inertia. Therefore the society also fell into the chaos during the development. The main reason of these chaos is the political inactivity. Politics not or cannot make the positive reflection of the social change by the economical development. It is doomed that this period can't bring the Chinese in modern society. We can also reconsider the social reforming question of the latter Ming dynasty from it. The latter Ming dynasty although have many characteristics of the modern reforming in the economy, in politics is not far to the modern reforming sign. Politics still along the traditional path advance. Because of this, the Qing Dynasty is founded, then very easily reverse the latter Ming dynasty that kind of atmosphere, establish an orthodox traditional dynasty.