Eunuch Han Dynasty Empress System

The Qin and Han dynasties, the central government has four kinds of systems, civilian, palace officials, attache and supervisor. The thesis mainly discuss the palace officials of the Empresses and Imperial Concubines, especially the eunuchs, The eunuchs as the Empresses and Imperial Concubines officers who serve the empresses’ daily life is becoming more and more powerful with the strengthening of imperial power in Han Dynasty.This dissertation to explicate the system contains three chapters.The first chapter discusses the eunuch general situation of the Empresses and Imperial Concubines. The palace officials of the Empresses and Imperial Concubines has three systems, the queen’s palace officer, the queen’s mother palace officer and imperial concubine palace officer. After researching the system of palace officers, we will have a clear understanding of the function and development.The second chapter discusses the management of the palace officer. It contains the management of scholar in the palace, the management of eunucha, the management of maid in palace. Through the section Reveals the nature of the monarchy countries under official and the patrmonialism was the characteristics of Han Dynasty.The third section mainly discusses the reason why eunuchs participate in the power struggle. The eunuch authoritarian in Donghan Dynasty has profound influence, Including politics, economy and general mood of society. But we must notice that the imperial power is still the most important thing in Dan Dynasty.According to the three sections,we will realize that under the patrmonialism, the eunuch authoritarian is only an alienated form of the imperial power. The imperial power in Han Dynasty has paramount importance.