Abstract:
In the long course of historical development, “the nine border towns” of the Ming Dynasty shaped a paramilitary society centred with the guarding localities. This paramilitary society, besides all levels of officials, military officers, solders and their families, consists of a certain number of civil people of governed states and counties and escrow people.“The border towns” witnessed a relatively universal belief in and practice of “feudal moral code” and “chastity”. However, the “chaste women” mostly came from bureaucratic, military officer and scholastic families or women of such family background while those who were born into families of common soldiers and civil people took only a limited proportion. After the reconstruction of military town society, women of the minorities in border town were little influenced by the cultural ideology of “feudal moral code”. As a result, the Ming Dynasty failed to see a real fusion in the sense of “feudal moral code” between the Han nationality and other national minorities.
