Emperors of the Song,the Yuan,the Ming and the Qing Dynasty and Growth of Classics Academies

A number of the emperors in the Song,the Yuan, the Ming,and the Qing Dynasty tried every means to emphasize and support the attempt of running classics academies and played a great role in the growth of academies.These emperors were motivated mainly in the following three ways: 1) compensating for the shortage within national education system to meet with needs for training of professional workers;2) expressing their worship for Confucianism and acceptance of the ethic and moral principles and conceptions of government introduced by Confucian followers;3) influencing the developing orientation and even the guideline of academies so as to lead them to the network of official ideology by financing academies and interfering with their inner affairs.