The Family Discipline Clan Regulations Of Zhangzhou During The Ming And Qing Dynasty

The Ming and Qing dynasties is the last period of the imperial society of ancient China. Its economic,political and cultural heritage on the basis of the precious generation and reached a peak in the history. But it’s short. This is mainly reflected by the decline of the regal power and the further development of democratic.However, the clan system as a tradition ethics system which follows several thousand years wasn’t fall along with it. It keeps pace with the times and adapt to social development through reform and innovation in different times. And then it becomes a positive factor in the development of society. It is inseparable with the family rules which is known as the three pillars of the patriarchal clan.Influenced by natural and geographical environment, the develoment of Zhangzhou is late and slow. The small-scale peasant economy occupies the absolute position, which makes the development of Zhangzhou is limited. It is conducive to the continuation and development of the traditional clan system.Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yuegang became an important port of foreign trade. The Economic form of Zhangzhou was impacted, and promoted the change of clan system.In the process of innovation, it involves a wide range of content, including Clan origin, children’s education and female problems can be known.Clan origin means the ancestor worship and clan origin traceability in the clan organization. Its specific performance is ancestor worship and record the descendants who move to another place. These are favorable to the unity and cohesion in clan.The education of children is of great significance to the clan organization. It not only conducive to the development of clan solidarity, also helpful to improve the influence of families at the local.It even change the clan through the imperial examination system of fate. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhangzhou clan organization focused more on the cultivation of the moral qualities of children, whether official or business that require them to set strict demands on themselves by moral standards. Woman is a complicated problem In traditional Chinese society, the main source is the low status of women. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhangzhou clan organization has loaded the women in genealogy, it means the status of women has been improved, people began to pay more attention to the role of women in society, which has certain progressive significance.The status of the family rules for the clan as the law for the country. But along with the social changed, the clan organization was died out, and the impact on society of clan was disappeared increasingly However the norms of the family rules are still important for today’s society.It has a positive effect for the development of today’s society, and it has an important significance for the Chinese dream that awaken the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It makes us keep and mission sense for the research on the family rules.