A Study About The Actively Change Heir Apparent In The Tang Dynasty

The throne inheritance system is an important part of the emperor system,and the heir to the throne is sure the top priority of the inheritance issue.The emperor system is always in the core of the political system since The Chin and Han Empires,and the stability of succession to the throne is the foundation of a long dynasty.The Entropy primogeniture still has a strong influence after entering the centralized autocratic society,and allegiance inheritance are still quite common in Chin,Han,Wei and Jin Empires.Countless chaos and cruelty on the succession to the throne has great damage to the majesty of the imperial power in The Northern and Southern Empires,civilization and barbarism coexist,the throne inheritance system suffered a major crisis.The Sui and Tang as to reconstruct a powerful empire of the unified calling the stability of the the throne,but this become a subsequent imperial political wisdom after the downfall of the Sui and The Hsuan-Wu Gate Incident in the early Tang. The Entropy primogeniture and The actively change heir apparent become a best choice to maintain the stability of the succession to the throne in the Tang dynasty.The first I discuss the T’ai-tsung deposed Li Ch’eng-ch’ien and selected Li Chih as the heir apparent in the late Chen-kuan.Through textual research I think that T’ai-tsung is to continue to maintain control of Guan-long Group’s right to inherit the throne, deliberately support the heir apparent Ch’eng-ch’ien and Prince Wei competition,two abandoned and chose youngest son.which greatly weakened the outside ministers toward the election of the heir to the throne.The second Ⅰ discuss the Empress Wu deposed Jui-tsung and selected Chung-tsung as the heir apparent in the late Empress Wu.Through textual research I think that Empress Wu in order to maintain the right of succession under the control by the royal house,deposed Li Dan and selected Li Xian as the heir apparent. The main conspirators,Chang Chien-chih,Ts’ui Hsuan-wei,Ching Hui,Huan Yen-fan,and Yuan Shu-chi take a military coup.The Empress Wu returned to bed,but the arrangement she set up has achieved.The third I discuss the Hsuan-tsung deposed Li Ying and selected Prince Chung as the heir apparent in the late Kai-yuan.Through textual research I think that Hsuan-tsung buried the struggle between the literary elite recruited through the examination and the older aristocratic elements and technical specialists in the Abstract Ⅲ bureaucracy by himself,and then tried to get rid of Wu interests for the throne inheritance candidate influence.He determined the inheritance principle of the Primogeniture,this is fundamental of the throne inheritance in the late Tang dynasty.The last I discuss the formation.the cause and the historical position of the strategy under the actively change heir apparent.After the first three chapters of the textual research,the formation of the strategy under the actively change heir apparent in the early Tang has profound underlying reasons:the historical reflection of the throne monopoly under LI Tang royal house,the lesson of The Hsuan-Wu Gate Incident and the realistic concern of the throne stable inheritance.However,this strategy brought the collapse of the balance between the forces of party struggles,the military factors of the throne inheritance crescendo,the confrontation between the South and North government had become,the heir apparent and the prince faded behind bars.The strategy as a historical stage ended the chaos and the cruelties of the throne inheritance since The South and North Empires,opened the way of the primogeniture in the late Tang.and this was the harbinger of the system of secretly designating a crown prince in the Qing dynasty.