明清时期生员赈济原因之探析

在明清荒政文献中,官方对生员这一特殊群体之赈济颇为常见.究其原因除灾荒因素外,更多与生员在传统社会中所处的地位和作用;生员生存的经济基础发生动摇与危机;生员出现相对贫困化且不断加剧的趋势以及生员出现社会流动引发对传统社会之冲击等因素不无关系.以灾荒为切入点对其考述,不仅能展示此时期生员群体人格特点变化之侧面,更能管窥明清社会萌发的诸多新动向.

Analysis of the reasons for the relief to official students in Ming and Qing Dynasties

In famine relief measures literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,it was frequent that the government relieved official students.The reason for the relief is closely related to such factors as famine,social status and role of official students,the economic status of the students,relative poverty and continuous aggravation of the poverty in the students,social flow to impact traditional society and so on.This paper examines the relief based on famine,which not only reveals the side of personality change of...