"Guard Selected Book" Organize And Research

The JinYiwei guard of Ming dynasty is an important, complex and controversial organization, it has always been researched by many scholars, but their research objects were most limited to traditional historical materials. In this paper, on the basis of previous studies, we want to use the book of<JinYiwei xuanbu>,which preserve in the first historical archives and few people have used,for the purpose of revise this book, at the same time, analysis the group of JinYiwei military officer carefully.finally, strive to have a new understanding of the organization of JinYiwei and its military officers under the background of Ming dynasty. This article is divided into five chapters.The first chapter of the paper mainly introduce previous study of Wu Zhi xuanbu, and about the present researches and achievements of JinYiwei. Moreover, clarity the significance of the research about<JinYiwei xuanbu>, research perspective and method in this paper.The second chapter discusses on the collation of<JinYiwei xuanbu>. The existing <JinYiwei xuanbu> mainly including three parts:one for the frontispiece<兵部为清查功次选簿以裨军政事>,one for directory,and one for main body. Among the three part, main body is the focus, mainly account each generation name, native place, age, military attache years, position, history of joined the army, the offensive place,the number of killed, award, office position, defend guard and criminal record of military officers. For text proofreading, we divided into two part. First, compare other historical materials with xuanbu, find the mistake and correct them, then presented all of this in the form of tables. Second, select the place of unclear, brief and hard to understanding, then in combination with other historical materials, for further explanation.The third chapter mainly discusses the function of JinYiwei. First of all, we make a brief introduction about the establishment and evolution of JinYiwei. Secondly, based on the selected book content, we conclude that JinYiwei in Ming dynasty has the following functions:ceremonial enemies, military army, wasteland filling rates, judicial, supervision and the installing of grand, diplomacy. And then classify them, combined with the related historical materials, analysis of these functions. From this paper, we can easy to find that JinYiwei, as public general recognition, is only a special agent, but, in fact, the emperor army has multiple functions. On the one hand, it is like the general garrison who take part in military action, on the other hand, it is also the emperor’s confidant, often carry out special tasks.The fourth chapter discusses the source of military officers in JinYiwei.<JinYiwei xuanbu> recorded the history of667military officer families, in this paper, we will list those which can determine the source. It divided into go out to battle, responsive, fallen hair, crib set, organization to charge, rich surrender, gaiseki, near-royalty, wangfu change, the artisan or other professional staff, overseas Chinese and foreigners. In addition, make a detailed explanation for a variety of sources. Thus, the source of military officers in JinYiwei is very broad. Of course, this also further proves that the particularity of military officers in JinYiwei.The fifth chapter discusses the Chinesization of prominent officials and the descend of military officers’ social status. Prominent officials are one of the important sources of military officers in JinYiwei, they live in Han residence for a long time, and then Chinesization gradually. The Chinesization process also promoted the national integration. At the beginning of the Ming dynasty, military officers were valued, but then their status declined because of some reasons, such as general mood of gong ming. Those military officers in JinYiwei is also facing the same situation, some of them would rather take a risk to go to the imperial examination, not to follow their military officers. This also proves the present situation of the society at that time.