A Study On The Relationship Between Wang Yangming And Emperor Jiajing

Emperor Jiajing and Wang Yangming are crucial figures ,who respectively led to changes in the academic and the national political in the middle of Ming dynasty. Therefore, to clarify the basic relationship between Emperor Jiajing and Wang Yangming, find out the specific reasons which impacted their relationship in various periods , and search for the political and cultural meaning behind it, we can grasp the subtle relationships between political reform and academic changes.Their communication is divided into two stages. Jiajing six years ago, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming University and Wang Yangming including Wang Yangming's academic and Wang Yangming's disciples were overlap and convergence, but more with distinction, particularly Emperor Jiajing and Wang Yangming were in two different paths on their own. On the one hand, in the "Ritual" process, with a series of personnel changes and political reform measures having started, a special occasion of the political situation that Zhengde formed changed at that time, and the central power structure and its mode of operation produced a sustained effect later. Cabinet power which had been enlarged in special historical conditions in the Period of late Zhengde and early Jiajing Reigns fell in confrontation with the imperial system. Cabinet power's independence was canceled, and attached to imperial power again. Emperor Jiajing completed the reconstruction of the imperial authority. On the other hand, Yangming's "Conscience Theory" had been widely recognized by the group of scholars in the society and academia, and promoted the changes in social thought. In Jiajing's sixth year, Wang Yangming was appointed. Emperor Jiajing and Wang Yangming in a short period normal interaction, because of various factors, their relationship finally broke up.Three issues are discussed in conclusion: how Wangxue was treated by the scholars; the relationship between reconstruction imperial authority and development on Wangxue in traditional political ecological perspective; Confucian academic legitimacy rebuilding under the influence of political reforms and academic changes. Trends in social thought were contrary to its stability that State political power had been authorised.This conflict reflected the distinctions between state and society, politics and academics.