The Study Of16Countries And Northern Dynasties’ Public Opinions Control

Following the riot of Yong Jia chaos, Jinshi collapse and central plainsdisturbance. As well as the mass Han Chinese migrated from north to south, Five Husconquered the Central Plain one by one, and then they established several FiveHus-based ethnic minorities regime, which are known as Five Hus and Sixteen States.After the Feishui Battle, North Tuoba were gradually getting stronger and stronger andbuilt Northern Wei government. However, these regimes have one thing incommon,that is they were all established in areas which were resided by Han Chineseoriginally. At the moment, the awareness of Self-rule of Han Chinese was underconstant onslaught of Hu-Han contradiction, which also influenced politic views ofHus’ northern regimes. As a rusult, in order to maintain the rules, the Sixteen Statesand Northern Hu governments settled a series of measures to strengthen the rule overcommon people, especially aimed at han Chinese people. Specifically， militarycontrol, economic control, cultural control and public opinion control were involved.In general, these measures are more or less the same as other dynasties，but they aredistinctly different from other dynasties in specific aspects.Because of the unique characteristics of Hu of all regimes in this period,the public opinion control was distinguishing different from other dynasties. First,before and after the establishment of Hu regime,there was always propaganda of publicopinions, which shows legality and orthodoxy of the control in this period. Second,when the regimes were mature and stable, governors would implemented some meansto court Han and intelligentsia. Third, during the operation of the entire regime, therulers would deliberately cover some early histories of the nation, which were a secretto their people, especially to Han Chinese. All of these resulted in many typical“History the prison” events, which caused stagnation of this period. Fourth, there camethe alternate appearances of “Han” and “Hu” over the standard of law.The governorsalso took religions as a tool to control people, causing " Buddhist dispute ". The largescale of public opinion control made people over the country, from noble class down tocommon people, under the pressure of public supervision and management. This paperfocus on sorting out all of control measures which these dedicated to clear out the rules during operation of the regime of Sixteen States. From these measures, the paper willexplore the characteristics of “Hu” regime and the influence of these control measuresmade on the development of whole country. At last, the paper try to make clear theimpacts of the public opinion control on Chinese national policy and public opinionmanagements during Sui and Tang Dynasties.