Research On Several Issues Of Hummer In The Tang Dynasty

On the stage of history in the Tang Dynasty,the emperor's son-in-low were closely linked with the Tang Dynasty politics.With the change of the political situation in the Tang Dynasty and the political needs of Emperor Tang,there were different standards in the selection of the emperor's son-in-low in the early,middle and late period of the Tang Dynasty.In the early time,emperor's son-in-low mostly proceeded from hero family,which mainly referred to the hero or the son of hero.In the middle period,a lot of selection of emperor's son-in-low turned to the children of emperor relatives,moreover,the proportion of the children who came from military governors and the scholars began to rise in the late period.The change of the selection of emperor's son-in-low in the Tang Dynasty,not only reflected the political changes in the Tang Dynasty,but also indirectly showed the changes in the social atmosphere.When the emperor's son-in-low was selected,he would be awarded the office position called commandant-escort,which indicated respect for his status.Moreover,The emperor's son-in-low got quick promotion and entered the ranks of senior officials.In the early Tang Dynasty,for the emperor's son-in-low,it was very convenient to participate in politics,and controlled great administrative and military power.In the middle,they participated in a series of rebellious events and court coup.Emperor Ruizong began to weaken the military power of the emperor's son-in-low.Emperor Xuanzong began to weaken the executive power of the emperor's son-in-low,and limited the social interaction of emperor's son-in-low.Therefore,the power of the emperor's son-in-low was greatly weakened in the middle Tang Dynasty.Later,the An-Shi Rebellion broke out,which due to the local place abounds with military governors.Additionally,the centralization of Tang government was weakened.Therefore,the children who came from military governors became the emperor's son-in-low,which were out of Tang Emperor 's helplessness.However,with the development of the imperial examination system and the improvement of the personal ability of the emperor's son-in-low,some of the emperor's son-in-low were talented and knowledgeable,and also they performed well in politics.So their executive power began to turning up compared with the middle period.But for the military power of the emperor's son-in-low,since the Emperor Ruizong who began to weaken the military power of the emperor's son-in-low,the emperors of the Tang Dynasty also showed a cautious attitude towards the power of the emperor's son-in-low.It means that,in the late Tang Dynasty,the military power of the emperor's son-in-low didn't substantially improve compared with the middle period.In short,the administrative and military power of the emperor's son-in-low in the Tang Dynasty experienced a stage change,which described in strong-weak-slightly stronger.The crime of the emperor's son-in-low is also a valuable question to study.There were various forms of crime that committed by the emperor's son-in-low,and Tang emperors punished the emperor's son-in-low who committed crimes,which had particular features.If the emperor's son-in-low damaged nation and government dignity,they would be punished relentlessly.For the collective punishment,the emperor's son-in-low would be punished more seriously because of his family crime than princess in the same situation.In the late Tang Dynasty,emperors would punish the emperor's son-in-low,even in small things.The purpose was to strengthen the control to the emperor's son-in-low.In the late Tang Dynasty,the crime of the emperor's son-in-low was much lower than the previous middle period.On the one hand,due to the emperor's son-in-low was severely bound.On the other hand,because personal quality of the emperor's son-in-low was improved.There were many cases about crime committed by the emperor's son-in-low in Tang Dynasty,which inevitably affected the benign development of the politics in Tang Dynasty.We should not only understand that the emperor's son-in-low had negative influence in social stability in the Tang Dynasty,but also realized that they played positive role in Tang politics.A lot of the emperor's son-in-low governed well in Tang Dynasty,some had numerous battle achievements,especially in early Tang Dynasty,also some owned higher cultural accomplishment and loved to make friends with scribes.Meanwhile,as for traditional culture,for instance traditional filial spirit,They were consciously to inheritance.In this way,to some extent,the emperor's son-in-low had positive contribution to the development of cultural prosperity in Tang Dynasty.In this paper,based on the traditional historical materials,as well as modern and even recently unearthed epitaph material,putting the emperor's son-in-low into the history of the Tang Dynasty.From four aspects,that is,the selection of emperor's son-in-low and the political changes in the Tang Dynasty,official position of the emperor's son-in-low after married with the princess and the change of administrative and military power of the emperor's son-in-low,to reflect the political performance of the emperor's son-in-low in Tang Dynasty.So that we could have a more comprehensive understanding of the emperor's son-in-low in Tang Dynasty.