Abstract:In famine relief measures literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was frequent that the government relieved official students. The reason for the relief is closely related to such factors as famine, social status and role of official students, the economic status of the students, relative poverty and continuous aggravation of the poverty in the students, social flow to impact traditional society and so on. This paper examines the relief based on famine, which not only reveals the side of personality change of the official students in this period but also demonstrates the new trends of the social development of Ming and Qing Dynasties.