Research On The Mulan Hunting In The Autumn In The Qing Dynasty

Mulan Hunting is one of the politics with great historic significance inQing dynasty. It helped to maintain the system of the “Eight Banners”(military organization in Qing Dynasty) and its fighting capacity. It alsostrengthened the government of Qing’s north borders with Mongolia andother minorities. What’s more, it exerted considerable influence on thehistorical developing trend of Qing dynasty. It was Mulan Paddock thatenabled the Mulan Hunting to be effectively carried out. It was practicallynecessary for Qing dynasty to build the Mulan paddock to adapt for theinternal and external tense situations at that time. The emperor Kangxi, a manwith great awareness of unexpected development, founded the Mulanpaddock. The original reasons of founding the paddock and the main purposesof continuing the Mulan hunting were to keep the Manchu’s existing customsand the “Eight Banners’”fighting capacity, to mediate the disputes betweenthe tribes of Mongolia, to drive out the Russian invaders and stabilize thenorthern borders. The Mulan Paddock, located between Mongolia and Chengteh,100kilometers away from the location of Chengteh government,was controlled by Zhili province. It was a place with beautiful scenery and afavorite site for the emperors, accompanied by the “Eight Banners” soldiers,to go hunting and drill troops. A series of supporting facilities was built uparound the paddock, including barracks, xanadus and temples. The MulanHunting activity, during the course of its implement, gradually became regularand got continuously improved. At last it developed into a system that mustbe complied by the chiarnlurng and the Jiaqing dynasties. Theinstitutionalized Mulan Hunting, with the help of a series of activities withstrong political complexion, such as encircling to hunter, deer hunting, thefour entertainments performed during the feast and cajoling the Mongoliannobility, fulfilled its function to control the different Mongolian tribes.Meanwhile, the scheduling program regularly carried out by emperors and thesevere disciplines made it effective to improve the whole quality of the “EightBanners” soldiers. At the end of the feudal society, the control of Qingdynasty came to become weaker and weaker and various socialcontradictories came to emerge one after another. The once flourishing agesof Kangxi and Chiarnlurng dynasties went with the wind. Therefore, the Mulan Hunting gradually ceased to be binding. For example, a large numberof vagrants flooded into the Mulan paddock and hunted stealthily and cut offthe woods and stole the firewood, which caused great damage to the ecologythere. Owing to the watchers’ misconduct, the Mulan Hunting system, withover100years’ history, was badly undermined and finally came to its end.The Mulan Hunting, to a certain extent, achieved its goal to control theMongolia and govern the borderland and tighten up the rule of the Qingdynasty. Meanwhile, the rulers’ conservative policies played an important rolein the communication and combination between different nations. It alsocontributed a lot to build up the cohesion of Chinese people and acceleratedthe unity of different nations in China, which offers a super experience for usto build a harmonious society in today’s China.