On Suzhou’s Local Worthies In Ming Dynasty

Local Worthies was a group located in the regional place, who were recommended in what they had down about immortal religion and article by the government.When they died, the local built ancestral shrine for them. Suzhou’s Local Worthies in the Ming Dynasty had four features:They valued their native place, the population of them was huge, they were in high official positions and the imperial eunuchs shared the proportion. This group could be roughly divided into three parts in accordance with the standards of three factors:the Local Worthies of what they had down in immortal, official performance and literature. They had made outstanding achievements in the three fields, which manifested the prosperity and diversity of Suzhou’s Local Worthies in the Ming dynasty. When they retired and went back to their birthplace, they committed to the village social management. Some of them took participate in public affairs, such as focusing on irrigation project and relief enterprise, brought benefit to the society. Someone promoted the construction of cultural undertakings like compilation of local chronicles and writing biographies,inspired the development of culture.During the mid-late Ming Dynasty,Suzhou’s Local Worthies gradually became abundant,but we should not deny the social education function they brought to descendant.