Western Hills Of Beijing Jian Rui Camp: Historical Memory And Cultural Identity

Storm Troops was a special force in the Qing Dynasty army, and also a social group in the West Mountain region of Beijing. Although disappeared 100 years ago, it left abundant anthropology materials in Western Mountain region of Beijing, such as relics of the building, legends of placename, tablet document, personage's story, etc. What is its historical appearance? What logic relations are there between Storm Troops culture and Chinese traditional culture? This is the focal point in this research.First of all , through comprehensive document and field survey materials, this dissertation make a integrated description of Storm Troops in Qing Dynasty, including its historical background, historical general such as life states, geographical position, to present abundant Storm Troops's picture.Secondly, this dissertation analyses the historical memory and cultural impact of Storm Troops. It narrates the ethnic origin, copies and deeply analyses its historical structure relations and cultural identify characteristics. It indicated that due to its multi-origin characteristic, Storm Troops cultural identify was of multi-folded, Banner Person's identity admits was its top layer. In producing and living activities, Storm Troops took flexible tactics to seek continuable development of their life style.Third, this dissertation considered concrete historical linguistic context and historical memory of Qing Dynasty . To building Storm Troops was a remedy measure that Qing Dynasty rulers adopted to maintain their governance strengthen the Eight Banners and green camp's fighting capacity. Its encouragement exemplary role was far greater than its actual fighting capacity. It was rather a symbol that the Qing Dynasty rulers built with social identity and deep culture identify . The memory of Storm Troops was a process of production, consumption and production, reflecting the continuation of social culture, memory producers' dynamic role and memory audiences' variety.This research strive to sketch and reflect cultural ideas in tactics that Qing Dynasty adopted to deal with ethnicity problems, and to present the interdynamic between the social-historical structure and culture identify subjects, and to draw some enlightenment to distribute to constructing a harmonious society on the basis of plural ethnic culture for nowadays China and to ensuring various members to develop themselves as behavior subjects and to reproduce their cultural memory.