Dongan Wang Clan Of Luotian And Local Social Changes From The South Song Dynasty To The Early Qing Dynasty

The memories of the Wang family in Dongan, which from Luotian in Hubei, stemmed from the Southern Song Dynasty. As most of families’ stories, the Wang family’s memories had accurate record, until a certain period of time in the Ming and the Qing dynasties. Before that time, it was lack of docunments to textual research that most of the Wang family’s stories. Since their Forefather Youzhi Gong in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Wang family in Dongan first time migrated to here. Until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the family just had reliable and credible documents.The thriving of the Wang family relied on the Ke-tsu system in the Ming hongzhi years. Until the late Ming Dynasty, the performance of the family was prosperity in the examination system.The Wang family was affected by the chaos in the End of Ming Dynasty.On the occasion of the Ming and Qing dynasty change, the family did not timely joins the Qing dynasty, and they even took to the road of anti-Qing. In the Ke-tsu system, the performance of the Wang was worse in Qing dynasty than in the Ming dynasty But its construction of the clan, has made great progress, such as repairing the genealogy, building the ancestral hall, temple and setting up some groups, and so on.According the GengShen Genealogy of the Wang Family in Dongan, as the basic documents, this paper studies the development of the Wang family through the memory of the family.With profound historical literacy and combining the national history and local annals, Wang Baoxin had do a lot of textual research on the Wang family history, and wrote the research content into the genealogy.Through the history of the family, which rooted from the GengShen Genealogy of the Wang Family in Dongan, we can detect the historic change of the local social and cultural in Luotian.This article will be discussed from three parts: the first part is the ancestor of imagination, which tells the "history" of every branchs of the Wang family in Song and Yuan.The second part is about story of the Wang family in Dongan from the Ming to the Qing.From the beginning to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Wang family in Dongan develped from the scholarly family to the official family, and in the late Ming dynasty the road of official was end up. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the family reborn from difficulties.The third part focuses on the construction activities of the Wang family such as the building ancestral hall and temple, taking part in the groups and so on.