Why is it called a government official instead of a government official? How big is the official position of a government official?

There are many official positions in history, and we don't understand them very well now. After all, our living environment is very different from that time, and all kinds of idioms are different. For example, there was an "official" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the word "official" made many people feel a little strange. When this word appears, it generally refers to some "small officials", and here it is "officials". How big can it be? Why don't government officials call them government officials?

Government officials, that is, government ministers, have always been called "big officials", which is too vulgar. Officials here refer to local officials, not officials or officials without rank. Those who are collectors govern the people. -"Shuowen" officials therefore govern the people. -"Han Hui Diji" collectors, people's lives are also hanging. -"Guan Zi Peng Fa", government officials are local officials, and central officials are not called officials.

Officials generally refer to people who handle specific affairs in government departments, generally scholars who have not passed the imperial examination, and generally look down on those who have passed the imperial examination. From Sui and Tang Dynasties to Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the status of Confucian scholars declined gradually, and the knife and pen officials were gradually reused, and the boundary between them became increasingly blurred. After all, government officials are also the great stewards of the local affairs of the emperor, and their status is not as high as before. The official theory was mainly put forward in the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, officials were all slaves, so the use of officials can reflect the imperial power's psychology of reusing but despising these people.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the centralized monarchy was further strengthened, and the governance system of the whole state institution was greatly developed compared with the previous generation. On the basis of inheriting the cultural connotation of the previous generation and combining the characteristics of the current dynasty, the management system in line with the characteristics of the times has been formulated. In general film and television dramas or novels, we often hear the word "government officials", which often makes countless officials wave after wave.

The word "Fengjiang" originated from the "enfeoffment system" of the Zhou Dynasty. The original intention was that Wang divided the local area into several administrative regions and even autonomous regions, such as vassal States. We often say "feudalism" is to turn the country into a country, that is to say, in the early Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the emperor gave great power to his vassals, that is, the rulers of various vassal States had great power. However, the meaning of the term "government official" is quite different. To put it bluntly, the word focuses on "official", which is a life of working for the emperor. Although guarding one side, it is under the jurisdiction and dispatched by the central government. It did not have the power of those vassal States during the feudal system, but it assumed greater responsibilities and obligations. I have to say that it is a leap in the management system.

So how mysterious the so-called "government officials" are, which has aroused the curiosity and yearning of countless people. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the officials of our time had the power to take charge of local affairs and even dominate the party, which was highly consistent with what we called "big officials". The "frontier officials" we often talk about should be in the Ming and Qing Dynasties for the first time, because the local management characteristics in this period are more detailed than those of the previous generation of local officials.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, judges, ministers, prefects, governors and governors were often called "Xinjiang ministers" and "Xinjiang officials". These positions were basically appointed by the emperor himself, taking over the military and political power of one or several provinces and becoming important officials of the town governor. These officials are somewhat similar to the governor of a province or the military commander of a certain area. Under the social conditions at that time, these officials could dominate the world and have absolute control over their own ruling areas. Of course, the "government officials" in this period still had certain limitations and did not reach the level mentioned by our later generations. A typical representative of the Ming Dynasty was Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhili, who was in charge of one party's military and political affairs. He is a typical representative of Ming officials.

The real government official in the Qing Dynasty should start with Zeng Guofan, who was the first governor of the two rivers of the Han people. He had a "Xiang army" created by himself, which was enough to fight against the imperial court and was regarded as an "official" who really mastered the "military and political power". That is to say, in the late Qing Dynasty, there were many familiar government officials, such as Li Hongzhang, Lin Zexu and Zuo, who were typical representatives of local forces in this period. These officials can be said to have a very important decisive force on the strength of the whole country, especially the governors in Zhili, Zhejiang and Liangjiang areas, which have a certain influence on the fate of the whole country. Therefore, these "government officials" are the top priority of the whole country. The people sitting in this position must be the people that the emperor absolutely trusts, and of course they also have their own outstanding abilities.

These "border officials" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties played a decisive role in the development of this country. In the turbulent social background of Ming and Qing dynasties, these officials have their own set of notification means to stabilize the politics and power of one side. Of course, these government officials often have the titles of six ministers, that is to say, every government official guarding one side is a real first-class official or second-class official, which is particularly prominent in the case of difficult promotion in ancient times.