The Imperial Family And The Local Society Of Gansu Province In The Qing Dynasty

The imperial family refers to that people, which lived in a race for a long time inthe Qing Dynasty, most of them were concerned with imperial competitionexamination and successful candidates in the imperial examinations at the provinciallevel at least, had an important influence in the national or local. In library collectionof Gansu province, we can find the imperial family in Gansu province, which mainlycontains xiucai, juren, jinshi three levels, the family of each level is comprised withpeople without fame and official position, people having fame and having no officialpositions, people having both them. In Gansu province, most of the imperial familieswere low-level fame and low-level office, analyzing the situation about their differentofficials and moving is a help to its research.The reasons why the imperial family aroused and developed are policydebugging and political situation in Gansu province, which also depended on a lot ofsupport of the academy and the family. The family's support is a major cause of theimperial family formation, family of many more after gaining fame, will pay moreattention to education for children and set a family children lesson even personally, tomake the poor people of the family not worry about food and clothing, try their best tosupport children of the family to take part in the imperial examinations, in order toobtain fame for themselves and their families.The members of the imperial family passed examination in earning fame or afterofficials, up to the jinshi officials, down to clansman, are actively engaged in the localeducation. A lot of people became local officials in the imperial family, they use theirpower, try their best to develop local culture and education, such as rehabilitation andreconstruction of the academy, hire famous Confucian scholar for leader, they usesocial prestige, to help the local officials enthusiastically donate academy, set aboutschool, to develop local education. If someone failed to low-level by official, heplayed an important role in the local affairs, he worked on disaster relief hunger,infensify water-contral project, disaster relief and comfort of dispute everyday, playedan important role in public affairs.