Study On The Petty Officials' Of The Tang Dynasty By Epitaph

As an important part of the official system of the Tang Dynasty,petty officials are important carriers of officials and people's association.By studying the pedigree,official career and marriage of the petty officials can deepen our understanding of the system and the official system of the Tang dynasty.Petty officials regardless of family background,marital status or official is not very good,the specific internal and obvious differentiation.Zhai Lang are superior to the petty official of the central and local government in all aspects.Specifically,petty officials Living area are significantly South less than North.We think this is a constant feature of the Tang Dynasty official selection.petty official of the central and local government.In the Official career,there are fourteen cases of the special period in high positions,but not the transfer of the norm on the whole.The central and local petty officials worse than Zhai Lang.Most of Zhai Lang are in the government.Besides,the Tang government often restricted the official career of petty officials,the system works well.Through the retrieval of the epitaph data,we found that the Tang Dynasty for officials do not always cover up,do not want to mention,many cases of epitaphs clearly documented the tomb served as the official position.marriage and children worked,two differentiation still continues to exist,Zhai Lang on the number or written text than the central and local pretty officials.Therefore,when we use epitaph data to analyze lower class groups,we should not only pay attention to the epitaph explicit records,but also think about the hidden information behind those explicit records.Maybe some obscure information can get closer to the reality of history.With the Tang Dynasty official boundaries become increasingly clear,on the historical evaluation gradually one-sided point to the nature of the evil,we traced the history of writing " the evil " and discusses the origin of the Tang Dynasty political influence,that was the existence of beetle rape petty officials,however,will the evil completely blame the petty officials evil and do not discuss the political situation at that time itself is not responsible.