The Analysis Of Rural Society In Late Ming Dynasty Novels

Content：In the early Ming dynasty,rulers adopted a series of measures to stabilizerural society,control of the landlord and the gap between rich and poor.Under the controlof rulers,the early Ming dynasty formed the frugal social trend.However, in the mid andlate Ming dynasty,the bud of Commodity economy show up. Commodity economyimpact of peasants’ lives from urban to rural areas.The old order in the countryside isbroken and the stable economic structure that male plow and female weave ischanged.Then,the power of rural management and values of villagers is changed.Ruralsocial customs also changes accordingly.Late Ming novels vividly reflect the change ofrural image and fully Show the country social life in the late Ming dynasty.This providesvaluable information for us and help us to know the country of late Ming dynasty.The paper is divided into introduction and the three chapters of main text. The firstquarter of introduction narrates the selected topic origin,the range of novel and theversion of novel.The second section provides an overview of the present situation oftopic research and the research methods.Chapter one mainly discusses the rural society which natural economy hit fromcommodity economy. The original economic structure that male plow and female weaveis broken.This caused the change of villagers class, so they had to convert their identity.Chapter two first shows the basic information of early rural social managementsystem, then analyses the reason of this system collapse and the emergence of the newrural society management during the period of late Ming dynasty and its influence to therural social management.Chapter three discusses rural economic, political, environment that influence onpeople material pursuit and value orientation, analyzes the changes of the rural socialcustoms with the psychological and behavior of villagers.