A Study On "Han Official Six"

With the same strain, the unified dynasty of Eastern Han Dynasty followed the Western Han Dynasty. Learning the lessons of the demise of Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty strengthened central control. However, in addition to a few people, the early Eastern Han Dynasty rulers are all children. They are clamped by wife's family or the eunuchs, often leading to the situation of sub-weak mother strong, the collapse of court etiquette system and the situation of beyond control of the emperor. In order to change the situation, the Eastern Han Dynasty rulers followed the example of Shu Suntong's drafting the "Chinese ritual system" and made a series of requirements such as daily life of the emperor, edict and the officials level, to maintain strict feudal hierarchy. " Han Official Six "emerged in this context and throughout the whole Eastern Han dynasty. The so-called" Han Official six " which have emerged during the Eastern Han on Bureaucracy, etiquette books, is a Han Dynasty official system of classification and more detailed summary. As the author of six books, or living in the Eastern Han or Three Kingdoms period, when the complexity of personal understanding of the social situation, so we can say "Han Officials Six" is the most primitive and the most detailed information to research the bureaucracy of the Han Dynasty. This article based on "Han Official Six" proofread by Zhou Tianyou, the continuous emergence of "Han Official Six" as a clue, to analyze the reasons and the contrast of the maintenance of imperial with the real situation of social control. Also to probe the example role of "Han Official Six" in the system, finally to prove the importance of "Han Official Six" in China History.