| It's an important and complex field to introduce the cultural education of inland to ethnic areas. From the perspectives of history , this paper dwells on the political acts of the Ming Dynasty in development on Confucian -learning- education in ethnic areas. This subject has great value on the development of education and the further study of education history in the distant ethnic area.Under the instrument of Marxism and Historical Materialism, this essay, based on the principle of historical literature study , studied systematically the political measures of Ming Dynasty on the development of Confucian- learning -education in ethnic areas, drawing lessons from the methods and theories of Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology and history ,etc.There are four parts in this paper: 1. Forewords. It includes the meaning of this essay, literature review and design of this study; 2.the background and base of Ming Dynasty in developing Confucian- learning education in the ethnic areas, which includes the development of Confucian- learning education, the national policies that Ming had implemented on enhancing education, the general situation of social culture of this area, the basic strategies and main measures that the Ming Dynasty had taken in governing the ethnic areas 3. the policy measures that the Ming Dynasty in developing Confucian- learning education, which includes initiating Confucian learning, selecting officers of Confucian learning, encouraging the children of the managers to learn, starting imperial exams ,etc.4.the achievements and problems that Ming Dynasty had in developing Confucian- learning -education in ethnic areas in the southeast, which, on one hand discussed the achievements that it had acquired ,such as the development of different schools , the improvement of culture and education and the renovation of the custom, etc. On the other hand, this essay analyzed the unsteady development of Confucian- learning -education in areas, culture, etc.The following are the main contribution of this paper :Firstly, deeply studying the development of Confucian- learning education in the ethnic area and enriched the study of Chinese education history.Secondly, deepening the study of educational history in ethnic areas by using the holistic research strategy and the theory of cultural change of ethnology.Thirdly, combining the study of educational history in ethnic areas with the need of educational development in the areas and demonstrated the important significance of the study on the history of ethnic education. |