Research On The Shouzhao In The North Song Dynasty

Shouzhao, is one of the imperial edicts system. It is based on the name of the emperor or imperial power, writing by the emperor himself or a trusted person.It is a kind of amanuensis which is issued from the central to the beneath of the central. So it is a unique small branch of the imperial edicts system, is also a wide range of edict institutional. Since the first Shouzhao appeared in Han Dynasty, it appeared in every dynasty in China’s history.It is out of the normal system, and is an "illegal" instrument system, but because of its run in the decree played a huge role in the form of supplement to normal imperial edicts system. we need to explore research. fFrom the hand of the day it with the help of the imperial power shelter, get the higher authority, although it is a kind of "illegal" imperial edicts, but after all it changed out from normal legal imperial edicts system, and has the rationality and necessity. It is the performance of imperial consciousness gradually strong, but also to a certain extent represents the development of imperial power. Along with the use of frequent change and institutionalization, it gradually evolved into a document system added in to the normal process, plays a very important role.It takes Shouzhao as object to study In this paper. It discusses the history of Shouzhao edict generation, development and evolution process, and probes into the period of Northern Song Dynasty each dynasty hand the promulgation of the edict, including quantity, content and promulgated process, hand letter writing, and the name of the issued, and the women, rulers who ruled in a special time in the northern song dynasty, trying to draw the outline of the use of Shouzhao in the Northern Song Dynasty.