The Study Of Official Ding You System In The Song Dynasty

In ancient China, people encounter lineal ascendant death, need at home mourning, andto comply with the mourning ritual, no marriage, no attend the banquet, no take theexam.When officials met their loved ones died, need to go back home mourning， thecondition is called Ding You. Ding You have two cases: In case of death of his mother calledDing Nei Jian; In case of death of his father called Ding Wai Jian. The Book of Ritesrecords：The attitude of parents death the same as lifetime is the highest state of filial piety.A person must not only be filial to their parents alive to serve their parents, more important isfor parents to be parents mourning after the death. Of mourning filial behavior is increasinglyvalued by the ancient Chinese society. Officials existence as a social elite, see themselves asor be deemed to people’s exemplary should pay more attention to filial piety. Thus, theancient Chinese society should pay more attention to the behavior of the bureaucracy ofmourning.Therefore, created a Ding You system.Continuous improvement of this system, theSong reached a new height.Song by filial to govern the country, focus on training officials and scholars ethos ofZhong Xiao. Ding You system has been continuously development and improvement. Striveto make officials mourning’s Norm ethics and reality political needs reunification.Implementation of Ding You system is to ensure and maintain the legitimacy of an importantmeans of political control.So, it be incorporated into the scope of etiquette,ordinance and thelaw. For official mourning approval process, do not follow the prescribed of mourning,treatment and behavioral norms have made clear rules.The purpose of doing is to fullcontrolled of mourning by imperial court.Song by Ding You system control officialsmourning, and as an important means to control and contain the officials. But for practicalneeds(In particular, the need for military attache in wartime), and the impact of powerfulpeople and partisan struggles. In the actual implementation process has a certain flexibility inthe Song of Ding You system. This is mainly for the Ding You officials Dou Qing. There arealso individual officials sake of power and position, salary adventure hiding mourning andseeking Qi Fu. However, with the continuous development of Zhong Xiao Ethics’s strengthenand continuous development of Ding You system, officials "hiding mourning", even DouQing behavior will be attacked by Scholar-officials. And sometimes lead to politicalstruggle.