The rite of maritial:research on the Large-scale military parade of the Ming Dynasty
The Large-scale military parade is a military etiquette for the ancient Chinese emperors to exercise and review the army,occuping an important position in national politics and military life.This article is based on specific temporal and spatial backgrounds,examining the Ming Dynasty's Large-scale military parade and clarifying the Ming People's Understanding of"Large-scale military parade",and based on this,re-examine the evolution of the form,text,and prac-tice of the Ming Dynasty's Large-scale military parade,and the role and historical significance of the large-scale military parade activity in the military and political process of the Ming Dynasty,The text of military parade in the Ming Dynas-ty was lacking for a long time.Until the Longqing period,the ministers of the court reviewed the ancient rituals and formulated them at the right time.In practice,in Hong Yong period,the parade activities were mainly held in the course of the war,and the military nature was prominent,but there was already a sense of"saluting".During the period of Ren Xuan,there was a parade in peacetime,and its function was a kind of deterrence by force;during the period of Zheng-tong,Tianshun,and Chenghua,the military parade in the suburban Xiyuan developed,and the scale and grandness of the parade reduced.The functions are limited;In the three dynasties of Hongzhi,Zhengde and Jiajing,the military parade was stagnant for more than 90 years;during the Long Wan period,the military parade rose to the institutional level and reached its peak.In the Ming Dynasty,the military parade was regarded as a military activity rather than a ceremonial ceremony,but the color of"saluting"continued to increase,and it was closely related to the military and political affairs of the Ming Dynasty.In the ninth year of Wanli(1581),the Ming court held the last military parade.The military pa-rade was no longer held with the termination of the reforms in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
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