The Local Societies Of Jiangnan And Its Order Change In The End Of Ming Dynastic

Late Ming Dynasty until the Ming-Qing dynastic alternation, the social order is in big changes, especially in the Jiangnan Area. This change of social order involves many social relationships’reverses, they include the Pecking relationship, the Equal relationship, the young and old relationship, the upper and lower relationship, the rich and poor relationship and so on. The most obvious manifestations are Scholar’s Change, mass uprising, Tenants’Change, Slaves’Change, etc. This change relates to the complex class, besides, it has various pattern of manifestations, in addition, its diversified characteristic determine the research contents possess the features of selectivity, locality and microscopic to a certain extent. In late Ming Dynasty, Qi Biaojia held the post of censor and procurator in Jiangnan region successively, moreover, he left the relevant records are truly reflecting the grass-roots’condition of Jiangnan region at that time. Whether the mining of value or the angle of innovation, it makes the sense of researching that studing the order status of Jiangnan region and dynamic history in late Ming Dynasty by regarding his records as the center. The paper takes time as the main clue, the main content is divided into three part:The first part outlines the social changes of late Ming Dynasty. Such as the ever-growing striking of the gap between the rich and poor in Jiangnan region, the gentry separation, rogue group activities, the changes of custom, etc, these situations lead to the social order relaxation and become the major background of the social order’s severe changes.The second part discusses the major condition of folks in Jiangnan region at late Ming Dynasty, such as the heavy taxes and corvee, frequent disasters, the fierce people, and so on. Meanwhile, from the microscopic seizing the activities of Civil Commotion, Scholar’s Change, Tenants’Change, the robbing and grabbing, the resistance to tent, etc, and taking Yixing Uprising for a typical case to probe into some relevant situation of collective action in specifically, such as background, psychology of the populace, the official attitude, characteristics of representation, etc. All the signs indicate that the society in late Ming Dynasty has presented the social disorder, which status concludes the younger generation insulting the elders, the lower insulting the upper, the lacking of rank, and the lacking of difference in pecking relationship.The third part investigates the period of Ming-Qing dynastic alternation, during the period, the regimes were so ambiguously and unsteadily, and in Jiangnan region, other than the turbulence of society, the society was in a state of disorder. For example, after the fall of the North, servants and sergeants took the opportunity to launch the Civil Commotion and crusade the surrendering officials, etc. At Hongguang period in Southern Ming Dynasty, the relationship was so tense between officials, commoners, soldiers. Moreover, when the army of Qing Dynasty entered into Jiangnan area, the force structure had changed and the populace had no trust for them.