Evolution Of The Lingnan Han Chinese Society From The Rise And Fall Of The Fung Family

During the eras of Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties, Feng family in Lingnan area, after married Madame Xian who was a number of the local prominent family, strengthening itself in the Lingnan area prestige and influence. At the same time, by keeping the symbiosis with the central dynasty, it won the central dynasty governor's trust, and then formed a common surname in Lingnan area gradually. Its power maintained for several hundred years in the Lingnan area, had significant and profound influence on the social politics, the economics abiding to standing up to the union of the central dynasty, ensured the social stability of the Lingnan area, and also stood up to the central dynasties sovereignty, made the important contribution for the national unification.At the beginning of Feng family entered into the Lingnan area, it was appointed as prefect, governor of the rank of a central government officials ----that guide the flow of official identity in Lingnan. At that time, the Xian family who had a high prestige and strong forces in the Lingnan area was Lingnan Gentry, belonged to local officials. As the Feng family had been in Lingnan area from the beginning to, it had been accepted the nurture of Lingnan culture and edification, even if they didn't marry Xian family, Feng family, will slowly became aboriginal people of Lingnan. But just the marriage which accelerated the process of indigenous, making the Feng family who was the central government officials finally combined with the Xian family who was the local officials, and finally degenerated into a truly local power. After the indigenous of the Feng family, it gradually began to identify the culture of Lingnan area, and then from the current official status slowly evolved into the local official, and finally developed into a great local force of the Lingnan area. As Tang dynasty had became stronger and more prosperous, it realized the power of Feng family generated becoming the threat of the central unity, it wanted to strengthen the rule of the Lingnan area; and Feng family, whose forces had grew up through a hundred years before and local cultural identity had been gradually strengthened, had degenerated into a thoroughly despotic in Lingnan area, also with the desire to dominate the Lingnan area, of course, unwilling to accept the control of the central dynasty. Thus, the conflict between the requirements of central administrative system integration and local forces independence had been built, that the Feng family had become a hamper of the process of central administrative system integration. At that time, the Tang dynasty had already have the ability to unify the country. So, the Feng family eventually was extincted in the strong central dynasty. Thus, the history of ups and downs about the Feng family, was the conflict and adjustment history between the local cultural identity of Lingnan area and the central cultural identity, and was the social change history of Han migrants in Lingnan area, it also was the history of Lingnan culture to move closer to and, ultimately, integrate into the Central Plains culture, ultimately making the Lingnan area into a unified multi-ethnic state in ancient China as an integral part of the whole.