Research on Confucian Instructors in Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty established a government -run education system with a relatively complete institution and overall coverage. The main implementers of the imperial examination education were the Confucian instructors who served as teaching posts in schools at all levels in the Ming Dynasty. In the context of the politicization of imperial examination education, the Confucian instructors in the Ming Dynasty were incorporated into the bureaucratic system for management where they had the dual identities of being an official and a teacher. Different from the government officials serving as teachers in the Qin Dynasty, the Confucian Instructors System was committed to entail "Confucian scholars as government officials". It was an institutionalization of the highly concentrated monarchy in the Ming Dynasty for Confucianism as the foundation of the country, the unity of politics and education, officials and teachers. The status, development, and treatment of the Confucian instructors in the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a state of existence under the autocratic monarchy of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty.