| The material supply for court in the period of Kaiyuan and Tianbao of Emperor Xuanzong include taxes property supply, predatory supply, self-sufficient supply, purchasing supply, and so on. The characteristics are diversity, variability, coerciveness, exploitative. It has a sharp sense of politics, distinct regional characteristics, intense color of Huhua and the relatedness of the patterns. There are the corresponding organizations and officials which is managing the ways of the material supply. It has a complex mechanism. Each staff and organization performed their respective duties, jointly maintaining the daily consumption of the palace.The relations between the material supply and the consumption are very complex and close. The court consumption levels are influenced by the adequacy ratio of the material supply and the way of the material allocation. The adequacy ratio of the material supply affect the change of the ruler’s consumption concept, and the change of the ruler’s consumption concept influence the material supply. Xuanzong played a significant oriented and crucial role in the material supply. The material supply for court is influenced largely by the consumption. The consumption affects the types and ways of the material supply. What’s more, the luxurious consumption stimulated the appearance of the ministers who were amassing fortunes, and led to the corruption of the politics and the recession of the Tang Dynasty.The luxurious consumption at court has made the fashion of the consumption goes to extravagance from frugality. Although the huge material supply for court stimulated the development of the production to some extent in the period of Kaitian, it did not lead to a substantial leap in the social economy. The luxurious consumption led to huge material consumption and waste, as well as hindered the economic growth in some degree. Meanwhile, we can’t also ignore the truth that the increscent proportion of the purchasing supply for court in Kaitian has a great influence on the later generations. |
