A Study Of Fujian-oriented Instructors In Ming Dynasty

The instructors of Fujian-oriented was a group of Confucian instructors from Fujian province in Ming Dynasty.It acted important role in the city,prefecture and county Confucian instructors.During the Ming dynasty,there were mountainous Fujian-oriented instructors,the exact number have at least 2186 people.Their background was diverse,respectively by the Juren,Imperial College Students,Confucian scholar,JINSHI.The proportion of people with Juren background reached 78.91%,become the main body of Fujian-oriented instructors,and it’s influenced by the educational atmosphere of the imperial examination in Fujian and the high admission rate of the country-level examination.The Fujian-oriented instructors are widely distributed in the 8Prefectures and 1 State of Fujian,and concentrated in the eastern coastal counties.The direct reason of the phenomenon was related to the difference of imperial examination strength between different regions.In the early Ming Dynasty,Confucian instructor shortage and the defected institution,therefore,Fujian-oriented instructors often selected local.Then,the post location of Fujian-oriented instructors,under the law of the officer who must govern nonlocal area,processed a transition which from worked in remote province to instructed in near province or neighborhoods.It reflects their employment distribution was influenced by the impact of national policy changes in different periods.In addition,based on the identity of their own responsibilities,Fujian-oriented instructors effectively performed their duties in daily teaching.Therefore,some also got the conditions for the provincial examination as high quality.Then,they have obvious scale advantages in the selection and employment of provincial examination in all provinces in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.In addition to teaching,Fujian-oriented instructors also actively participate in various social activities,for example raising fund for education,promoting exist habits and customs and directing local worship activities.Obviously,they got their people wholehearted respect.Moreover,they had made remarkable achievements in compiling local chronicles,writing.They dedicated to the promotion of local social education.