Case Research On Du Family Of Binzhou In Ming And Qing Dynasties Time

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the traditional culture at the Yellow Revier Delta entered the flourishing period. The main characteristic then was the prosperous family culture. And many notable families and great clans occurred . Family Du in Binzhou, was the most famous among them .The former residence of Family Du was at the south of accrossroad in the original country of Binzhou(present North Bin town, Binzhou district) . The ancestors of Family Du came here from Zao Qing, Hebei province since the second yearof Hongwu(1369). It didn't flourish until the fifth generation.Du Qiming,the grandson of the sixth generation, became the provincial certified scholor in 1549, then imperial scholor in 1565 . Du Chengshi, the grangson of the seventh generation, was the winner of imperial scholor in 1601 and later he became the governor of Gansu province . Du Shi, the grandson of the eighth generation also won the imperial scholor in 1598 and then became the official of Jiangxi province.Obviously, Family Du was the first-rate among the notable families of North Shandong in the Ming dynasty .In the Qing dynasty, Du Shuang, Du Shi's grandson, became the imperial scholor in 1647 . He made great achievement in both politics and literature and was a figure in the poetry field of the early Qing dynasty . Du Zi, Du Shuang's grandson won the imperial scholar in 1737 and was a telebrated poet in the middle of Qing dynasty . As an official, he made great achievements . Du E was the winner of the imperial scholar in 1801 . He was selected to be the secretary of the gand secretariat, the assistant minister of personnel and the assistant minister of rites, who was the representative for Shandong literature field, following Wang Yuyang and Zhao Zhixin . He and his brothers nephews formed the writer circles . Therefore in the Qing period, Family Du struck people when they talked about the literary families . Du Shoutian, Du E's son, won the imperial scholar in 1823 and became the chief minister of personnel affairs, the master for Emperor Xian Feng and the minister of rites . Du the, eldest son of Du Shoutian, won the imperial scholar in 1844 and was the grand minister of state . It is said that there seven imperial scholars in Family Du . The flourishing of Family Du was well-known for the people all over the nation.And it was a rare famous family during the 500 years in Ming and Qing dynasters .Family Du pay more attention to cultural construction and the family wrote numerous works, and the region of the family culture is very profound . It's family education is particula, 'Don't be conceited for the big family and numerous members of family, should cultivate oneself indenpendly, engage in own work, father shoud educates son with it, and elderly brother should enlourage your own brother by it. They imitate family Yan's family instructions to warn the later generations .Family Du experienced Ming and Qing these dynasties, and had the prosperous time as long as 500 years , which calls for deep thought, and it has a very important family culture region and cultural foundation, and it is the important and particular part of Yellow river delta culture . After consulting the formal history, informed history, records, collected works, family tree and other original references, the author adops the approach and disappear and it's development, systemically, to study the generation evolution competely, to give an comprehentive count for the distribution of villages, population ang emperial examnation so the author also gives a summary about the deals of this family'srepresentative's life and their main achievements, and study their success of literature, discuss the family's unique educational idea and the enlightment to morden education .The whole paper is devided into Sevan Sections:The first section is the instruction of this paper, and it briefly reviews the historigrophical field's investigation about families, the famous and prosperous families, and states the purpose to take the family Du as a single case to study .The second section focus on the family tree's textural research, which tells us that the ancestors of Family Du moved into ZaoQing Hebei province since Ming dynasty Hong Wu (1369), and formed 3 clans and 12 branches in the fifth generation, they became the first -rate famous and prosperous family of Northen Shandong provinces at that time .The third section gives an overall count about the family Du's distribution of villages, population and imperial examination, which can help the readers to learn about family Du;s distribution and the grand events of imperial examinations .The forth section is the study of the representatives of this family . And it emphasizes on the introduction of Du Qomeng, Du Shi, Du Shuang, Du Zi, Du E, Du Qiao, DuHan, Du Shouliu, Du Tingshen and some other representatives of this family . It gives a specific describtion about their political achievements .The fifth section introduces the liteatural achievements of Family Du .The sixth section deals with the history of Family Du's culture and education's development, the content of education, the origion of education idea and the enlightment to morden education; Summarizes the family's spiri, and sums up the experienced significance for morden times .