Abstract:
The academic characteristics in the Ming and Qing dynasties are quite different, from several main aspects of the traditional philology. The sovereign rulers in the Ming Dynasty were the Han ethnic from the central plains, while their counterparts in the Qing Dynasty were the ethnic minority in the frontiers. According to Chinese history, generally speaking, the Han culture is superior to that of the ethic minority; so after entering the central plains to establish their regime, the ethic minority tended to accepting and eventually being assimilated into the Han culture. Therefore, the difference between the Ming and Qing dynasties is especially worth exploring. The causes of such differences includes not only the academic evolution studied by the previous researchers but also the effects of the Yuan Dynasty governed by Mongolians as well as the factor of the Ming people imitating the Hu (Northern minorities). In addition, the different imperial court education of the two dynasties and the resulting imperial cultivation difference also played an important role. Hence, The new understanding might be inspired and increased when the academic history and the historical development in a certain period of time are examined from the perspective of philology.
