The Investigation Of The Psychosocial Attitudes Of The Rich Country Families In The Song Dynasty

Since the Song Dynasty, along with the development of the economy and the implementation of various new policies, various forces had been dividing and combining, which had provided all kinds of conditions for the growth of the country rich families. The land annexation was widely accepted, the population had been increasing and the business was flourishing, which were three basic trends of the economic development in the Song Dynasty, which had made the country wealth concentrated increasingly, so the gap between the rich and the poor had been further enlarged. Under such the background, the development of the rich country families presented many new characteristics, especially in the variety of psychosocial attitudes. The consciousness of their pursuing benefit and trying to be noble, the individual ideals strengthened gradually, which had made them from the closed mind to the open mind and from the emotion to the reasonableness. According to the above, this thesis consists of two parts.Part one: Define the rich country families of the Song Dynasty, the rich country families were different from the powerful persons, the rich country families mainly depended on diligence, who were different from the rich people, the rich country families belonged to the first and second grade doors of all the country doors. The rich country families belonged to people's doors in the identity, who annexed a great deal of land and made a living by managing land, etc.Part two: Emphasize the psychosocial attitudes of the rich country families in the Song Dynasty. They had all kinds of psychosocial attitudes such as begging benefit in spite of justice, pursuing to be noble and taking active part in the social activities etc., which had the characters of the antinomy and the region. This aggressive psychosocial attitude made the rich country families undertake bigger responsibility on the economy and have an important function in participating the contribution and keeping the village economy stable. Moreover, the psychosocial differences between the south and the north had influenced not only the social development then but also the economic development and people's social minds in the future.The psychosocial attitudes of the rich country families in the Song Dynasty weren't existent singly, but various psychosocial attitudes were coexistent. With the darkly match and the conflict of various psychosocial attitudes, the rich country families' function was gradually outstanding in the society.