A Study On The Construction Of The Legitimacy Of The Tang Empire

Legitimacy is an evaluation of the relationship between the ruler and the ruler.It is the political power and its followers to prove their legitimacy process,it is the recognition of the ruling power.This recognition is based on a range of conditions.In this paper,the timeline as the main line,trying to clarify the Tang empire for the legitimacy of its regime to build the situation.The legitimacy of the regime of the empire is divided into two levels:one:the legitimacy of the imperial regime itself;Empire during the blame to solve the legitimacy of its regime,this task is mainly completed by Tang Gaozu Li Yuan.Through the use of the prophets such as "Li Xing Xing",he built the political image of inheriting the Sui Dynasty and the Tang empire as the successor of the Yang Sui regime.To solve the dynasty is the source of the problem.Making the Tang empire has a legitimate legal basis.When the second generation of monarch Li Shimin after the throne,the political legitimacy of the empire has been completed by Li Yuan,and Li Shimin’s own succession procedure is not legal,so he strengthened the emperor’s personal success to the construction.Li Shimin through the history books of its "founding" political image of the hype,the mysterious door of the incident in line with their own status of writing,the image of the heroic heroes of the construction of the inscription,the solemn criticism of the Emperor and discredit The subjects of the Tang empire accepted Li Shimin as the ruler of the imperial legitimacy.While the rulers of the empire built their own legitimacy,the power of opposition had been endless.This paper chooses some of the more representative challenges to the political legitimacy of the empire.From the perspective of the fate of the challenge of"Lee when the" prophecy of the "Liu when the king" prophecy,Wu Zetian through the establishment of the new regime,which have impacted the political legitimacy of the Tang regime.After the reign of Emperor Xuanzong,it is necessary to reshape the orthodox authority of Li Tang royal family and need to establish their own political legitimacy.The construction of political legitimacy of Xuanzong dynasty mainly revolves around these two aspects.Through the Taoist respect and use of "filial piety to govern the country"concept,held a feudal ceremony in order to achieve the twists and turns since the revolution and the political and ideological order of the double crisis,re-established Li Tang dynasty in the political and ideological areas of legitimacy,With the sacred,heavy tree Li Tang Guowei.Xuanzong has also changed the "two Wang Sanke" political initiatives,trying to change since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty Longuan group of the same strain of the system,so that Tang Zhengqi out of the North Dynasty inheritance system,their own into the orthodox Chinese history context.He also set up a set of national history of the emperor worship sequence,the Tang Dynasty as Wei Jin four hundred years since the troubled times the Terminator and the Great Unique dynasty pioneer.Deeper level that the Tang dynasty is the summing up of Chinese history,it is one of the great successor of the dynasty dynasty successor.Tang Xuanzong Li Tang regime legitimacy of the remodeling is undoubtedly very successful,to maintain the rule of Li Tang,the people will gather together,and create a peak of prosperity.