Research On The Prime Minister' Posthumous Titles In Song Dynasty

Officials' posthumous title,was the title given by the government after the death of the official who had qualified posthumous.In the pre-Qin period,the posthumous law of officials was applied to confer posthumous according to the title.From the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties,the posthumous law was developed to confer posthumous according to the grade of officials,and the posthumous procedure was further standardized.After the Song Dynasty official gave the standard of sputum to the two developments of Jingde and Yuanfeng,it basically became a custom,and it was the standard to send the official ranks and the military ranks to the positive three products or to the positive three products.It was conducted conferring posthumously the procedures of requesting the posthumous title,discussing the posthumous title,determining the posthumous title,reward the posthumous title.And there were cases of conferring posthumously the posthumous title,changing the posthumous title,depriving the posthumous title.In the Song Dynasty,the prime minister' posthumous titles was the same as to posthumous title before the buried and conferring posthumously the posthumous title,changing the posthumous title,depriving the posthumous title.The number of the Northern Song Dynasty given prime minister'posthumous titles before the buried was significant higher than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.The prime minister' posthumous titles which given before the buried were less influenced by political.More realistically reflects the personal image of the prime minister.Recovering the posthumous title,changing the posthumous title,depriving the posthumous title were more vulnerable to political influence.The Northern Song Dynasty recovering the posthumous title reasons were diverse.The Southern Song Dynasty was more about preparing for war.In Song Dynasty,there were still a lot of the prime minister hadn't posthumous titles.most of the reasons were related to politics.In the words of the prime minister'posthumous titles.The most used posthumous the word was “Wen”.were most frequently used.“Zhong” was heavily used in the Southern Song Dynasty.Between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty,There was a big difference in the number of "Yi" and "Min".At the same time,the posthumous titles used in the two Song dynasties also have similarities.The words "Jian" and "Su" have no significant difference in the use of the Southern and Northern Song dynasties.In Song Dynasty,the prime minister' posthumous titles used were more dispersed that showed the diversity.“WenDing” was the most used prime minister' posthumous title,showing the government's demand for civil servants.The posthumous titles of Wang Anshi,Chen Zhizhong?YueFei and QinHui respectively show the meaning of posthumous words,the process of posthumous discussion and the influence of political can change the prime minister' posthumous title.In the Song Dynasty,two-words posthumous title was in the vast majority.Posthumous title used word "wen" more "wu" less and obtained easy to be affected.The prime minister' posthumous titles were objective but beautiful posthumous titles were too much.prime ministerhad s lot of rights and their posthumous titles can be used to educate officials.Therefore,in addition to the prime minister's own “travel”,the prime minister's posthumous title is also inseparable from national politics.The posthumous title is deeply influenced by the imperial political situation and reflects the changes of the imperial political situation.