The reasons why scholars in Ming and Qing Dynasties advocated rebuilding the society of four people

There are many reasons why the literati in Ming and Qing Dynasties advocated rebuilding the four people's society. First of all, Wang Yangming's thought that the ancients were in cahoots with the four people, and that they were indistinguishable from the ancients of Shen Yao and the four people of later generations influenced the scholars at that time. These ideas reflect the social phenomenon that the boundary between literati and businessmen is gradually blurred, and also reflect the concept of the new four people theory during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Secondly, the political changes between the Ming and Qing Dynasties are also an important reason for this concept. With the development of society, the population of China increased several times from the early Ming Dynasty to the mid-Kloc-0/9th century, but the number of juren and Jinshi did not increase correspondingly, so the chances of success in the examination naturally became smaller and smaller. At the same time, the success of businessmen in Ming and Qing Dynasties was also a great temptation to scholars, and the donation system in Ming and Qing Dynasties opened the way for businessmen to be officials. These factors * * * contributed to the reasons why the Ming and Qing scholars advocated the reconstruction of the four people's society.