clean-fingered and influential high-ranking officials(bā fǔ xún àn)

clean-fingered and influential high-ranking officials

The official title of bafu xunjiao is the censor of supervision. It is called the censor of xunjiao in different provinces. The quotation of drama and novel is changed into bafu xunjiao, which has great power.

Idiom explanation

The title of bafu xunjin pronunciation B ā f ǔ x ú n à n interpretation of xunjin began in the Ming Dynasty. It was a non fixed official who was temporarily appointed by the imperial court as the censor to inspect the provinces and assess the administration of officials. "Bafu xunjiao" is often seen in operas and novels. Most people regard it as a clean and powerful official.

Idioms and allusions

For example, you are now, and your father is a soap man. I'm afraid that I will insult you. It's all right. When I get back to the yamen, I'll write a note to quit the soap man. (yanzhibaoplea), a famous play by famous dramatists, explains that in fact, bafu xunjiao is only an official post in opera. Under the imperial inspection court of the Ming Dynasty, there are 13 provincial xunjiao, whose full name is xunjiao Yushi. It is recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty: "there are two people in northern Zhili, three in southern Zhili, one in Xuanda, one in Eastern Liaoning, one in Gansu, and one in each of the 13 provinces." According to the records in the draft of the history of the Qing Dynasty, in the early Qing Dynasty, along the Ming Dynasty system, there was a capital inspection court, under which there were 15 supervisory censors. At the beginning of Shunzhi, there was another imperial censor, one in each province. After Shunzhi, it was gradually abolished and changed to thirteen branches. In each province, there was a branch censor, which was commonly known as Daotai and zhengsipin. It was on the magistrate's seat. It was much the same as the Ming Dynasty's censor, but it had more powers.

Discrimination of words

The image of bafu xunping is mostly just, which can be understood as the people's desire for the officials to be fair and honest, and the expectation that honest officials will take charge of their unfair treatment. It is a manifestation of the people's hope for the officials to be clean and honest. The origin of eight prefectures in Ming Dynasty many provinces (under the jurisdiction of the minister) were divided into eight prefectures. Such as: Fujian: Fuzhou, Jianning, Yanping, Shaowu, Xinghua, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Tingzhou eight Fu; Shaanxi: Xi'an, Hanzhong, Fengxiang, Yan'an, Qingyang, Pingliang, gongchang, Lintao eight Fu; Henan: Kaifeng, guide, Henan, Nanyang, runing, Zhangde, Weihui, Huaiqing eight Fu; Guizhou: Chengfan (Guiyang), Duyun, Liping, Zhenyuan, Sizhou, Tongren, Sinan, Shi eight Fu Sichuan: Chengdu, Chongqing, Kuizhou, Baoning, Shunqing, Xuzhou, Mahu, Long'an (Zunyi, etc.) Guangxi: Guilin, Nanning, Liuzhou, Wuzhou, Pingle, Qingyuan, Xunzhou, si'en (Taiping, Siming, etc.) so bafu patrolling is the meaning of a provincial patrolling.

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