Abstract: The mainstream historical narrative of“the Ming-Qing transition，”which is grounded in the study of Jiangnan and the Confucians who upheld the principle of “Opposing the Barbarians，”always maintained an attitude of hostility toward the nomadic rulers from Northern China． But this attitude cannot provide a convincing explanation for the behavior of Northern China's scholar-bureaucrats in the early Qing dynasty． This article focuses on Sun Qifeng，a Neo-Confucian Scholar active in Henan and Hebei during the Ming- Qing transition． Sun constructed an historical analogy between the early Yuan Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty． In his imagination，Confucian civilization was saved by the Confucian Scholars，such as Xu Heng，Yelu Chucai and Liu Yin，during the early Yuan Dynasty． Accordingly，the early Qing dynasty was regarded as a period of restoration． Furthermore，Sun had a unique behavioral ethic which was based on the balance of the emperor's power and Confucian morality． According to Sun，becoming an official and resignation were the way of practicing Confucian morality．