JINGBIAO System In Ming Dynasty

The conferring honor system is one of the important tools tomaintain in socialmoralization, a kind of measures to be taken to maintain the dominant position, and itis also a way to promote kindheartedness, justice, loyalty, filial piety, festival,low-cost and other traditional moral social return mechanism. The conferring honorsystem is one of the feudal education system and it reflects the basic moral spirit ofancient China. The conferring honor system is also an effective way to study thesocial moral orientation of ancient China.The conferring honor system originated from the pre Ch’in Period, forming in theHan Dynasty, perfecting in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, epitomizing in the two SongDynasty, reaching its peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The cause of this systemis the inevitable requirement of the development of the autocratic monarchy. Theprocess of the conferring honor system grows up with autocratic monarchycentralization production, development, perfection and eventually lead to rigid.The conferring honor system in Ming Dynasty is on the bearing in the SongDynasty, with the development of Neo-confucianism of Cheng Zhu.The rulersstrengthen the ideological control of subjects in order to consolidate the rule, which istherefore, the commendation system in Ming Dynasty has been given unknownattention, more perfection, and once has been developed to the peak.Its commendationobject scope to expand, a founding father of a country,Loyal liegemen,dutiful sons,the imperial examination system, down to the ordinary people, filial children, womenof moral integrity, Yi Fu Yi Min, cohabiting, longevity and so on.All of them aresubject to imperial commendation. Other way it is also varied.There are materialrewards, such as a reward of gold and silver, real.There are also spiritual rewards,such as the rise in the official world, give posthumous title, set up signs.The Ming Dynasty honor system is a multi-level system of rewards, which isthrough all the dynasty. The commendation that spirit incentive mechanism, the Mingrulers can effectively implement the etiquette education, so that people can accept the values advocated by the rulers and the moral system more easily, and becomesself-conscious behavior. So, it can play an important role in stabilizing the socialorder, safeguarding social fashion and the feudal rule etc.