Confucianism In The Qing Dynasty

Though it may be obvious, or at least presumably, the subject of history is an exceptionally difficult subject for both the historians that research it and the students that learn it. History is but a subject that owes its entire existence to humanity, a continuous process that has no know beginning and, hopefully, has no known end. The process to understand history is a complicated mess, where recollections of the past can never truly be presented in an accurate manner. History can only be created in the past. All we can do in the present is view periods and events, such as the role of Confucianism within the Qing Dynasty, through different approaches of writing and thinking about history. In the modern period, there has been an ever-growing
Resources are generally anything that could be used as power in social relations. Resources generally fall under human, such as physical strength and emotional commitments, and non-human, which are natural or manufactured animate or inmate objects. As a source of power of social relations, resources are not equally distributed among the agents within a group. Some agents may perhaps be wealthy will other are poor. Yet under some measure, all agents within the structure control some measure of human and non-human resources. Yet rules and resources individually are not capable of constructing structures. For the structure to capable of reproduction, both rules and resources must be used in tangent with one another. Blankets by themselves represent nothing more than a means of warmth in cold weather but within the rules of the Hudson Bay Potlach, the giving of blankets as resources demonstrates the chief’s agency in asserting his social prestige to acquire marriage proposal or to negotiate potential
By this period, consent was the more dominate driver in maintaining the hegemony of Confucianism. The key to Confucianism was to establish a proper and orderly society. For this to become a reality, there were several methods that needed to be met. For one, people needed to pursue propriety to become vistous individuals. They needed to discard their own internal negative traits such as the pursuit of glory or gluttony. To obtain propriety, the Confucian must also practice filial piety, that is the respect and devotion to one’s own parents and rulers . The society under Confucianism there were to be an establishment of social classes, such as the gentry, peasants, artisans, and merchants, whose importance was ranked by their contributions to society. The gentry were considered the top for their wealth and the merchants were at the bottom because they did not make things. Additionally, Confucianism established the proper etiquette that the social classes needed to abide by. The gentry needed to be charitable and tolerant of mistakes. The agriculturalists (peasants) should not harm animals and not intrude on their neighbor’s fields. The hegemony even went as far as to influence law during the Qing Dynasty, identifying the shie (ten abominations) as the most serious of offensives, such as plotting to murder a family