"Cemingweizhi" And Politics Of Eastern Han Dynasty

In Spring and Autumn Period,to established the relationship between rulers and ministers must through certain ceremony,namely "cemingweizhi".This kind of relationship between rulers and ministers by way of "cemingweizhi" had some kind of multeity, materiality and emotionality,instead of unified,institutional and legal principle.However,to the Eastern Han Dynasty,"cemingweizhi" reappears in the gentleman person's political idea. This kind of relationship between rulers and ministers to be accepted,register as personal political dependent relationship among government officials,its model manifestation is "the disciple and former subordinate".To formed "the disciple and former subordinate",besides cultural factor,the system reason is the choosing officer system.The person who determined the gentleman person's enter official career and promotion was their teacher and their senior official.Besides,the choosing officer system in the Eastern Han Dynasty paid attention to public opinion.So,"the disciple and former subordinate" place extra emphasis on their teacher and their senior official was fair and reasonable.The benefit between "the disciple and former subordinate" and their teacher and their senior official was very uniform,it caused the Eastern Han Dynasty society to form different special interest group,above all,the scholar-bureaucrat become the most important political group by use of their political economical influence and culture resources,to utilize "the disciple and former subordinate" as ligament.The universal benefit collectivization in the Eastern Han Dynasty society enables the factional strife to be unavoidable.Therefore being in power already realized "the disciple and former subordinate" had centrifugal force function in various special interest group,particularly to the scholar-bureaucrat group,not to guard against to them strictly was impossible.And in the party member,"the disciple and former subordinate" was the important attribute truly.The disaster of Danggu in fact was an extreme case that the imperial authority attacks the gentleman power,but not the combat between the scholar-bureaucrat and the eunuch merely.