Fanzheng Separation In Hebei In Late Tang Dynasty

The Hebei region of northern China found itself in a rather peculiar situation in the late Tang Dynasty. As a result of the"fanzhen"system of military government, the area was under de facto control of insubordinate military regimes while remaining submissive to the central government in name only. Looking closely at a wide range of primary sources, such as the lives and works of Tang poets either born in the region or having resided there, as well as poems related to the"fanzhen"system of Hebei, this dissertation attempts to make a general review of the Tang poems generated in the Hebei district in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Also, by reconstructing the poetic history of the time and place, the author offers his unique judgments on the significance of those poems.There are those main arguments in this thesis:There were so many Hebei poets in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, although the achievment and importance of them is inferior to the early Tang Dynasty and the flourishing time of Tang Dynasty, the important contribution of them is still shouldn't be underrated.In the control of insubordinate military regimes, some valuable legacy in Hebei poems is the embody of the humanism in Tang Dynasy, such as the defending to the unitary of the Dynasty, the maitaining of the traditiona of Konfucianism, the fellow feeling to the common pepole, the strong sence of responsibility.The desending of the Hebei poets'chievment and prestige in the middle and late Tang Dynasty has typically reflected the general desending tendency of the Hebei regional culture.By the Hebei poems in in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, we can see the Hebei teginal culture has been considerably retrogress and desolated, but it has absolutely not been totally assimilated by the"hu"ethnic groups. The main of Hebei culture in that time was still the Han culture, and further more, in the interchanging and merging each other, the original culture in Hebei region was gradually assimilating the invaded culture of the nomadic tribes.