The Study On Official Banquet In Tang Dynasty

In the official vision of the Tang Dynasty,official banquet was a form of official gathering,not an ordinary official gathering with entertainment.Before Tang Dynasty,there was such a similar form of official gathering,but it did not form a complete system.It was until the period of Tang,that it had its initial form,and it generally spread and developed in the category of officials,so that a relatively complete system was formed.On time,the official banquet shows the characteristics from lack to perfection,it has a certain connection with the overall development characteristics of the Tang Dynasty.This was caused by many reasons such as political stability and economic development in the early Tang Dynasty.There are strict restrictions on the level of officials in official banquet.From top to bottom,they are mainly divided into prime ministers,officials who attend the imperial court session and other internal and external court ordinary officials.Depending on the level of officials,there are many differences in time,characters,and locations.The fund of the official banquet had been provided by the court for long time.However,the internal and external court had been treated very different.In the later period,this phenomenon is especially obvious,which is closely related to the loss of the authority of the central government.The central government’s finance was constricted by the policy of Two Taxes and Three Parts Method,therefore,the central government was unable to take into account the official catering.At the beginning,the purpose of official catering is to improve the efficiency of officials.Because of its connection with politics,it gained more significance in the development process.Officials pay more and more attention to the setting of official banquet.In this kind of informal political place,this kind of banquet has become another stage of political competition.There is no doubt that the establishment of the fund for the banquet had increased the economic treatment of officials,which is positive on the basis of the original setting.However,with the development of the catering system,it became a huge economic burden for the court in the later period,and there was also a situation of "insufficient use,official business is abandoned",which obviously violated the original intention of the establishment.There are different characteristics in the development of oficial banquet in the Tang Dynasty,which experienced the process from initial development to decline,and then to develop.As a newly established system in Zhenguan period,the court paid more attention to it in Kaiyuan period.After that,the catering system stagnated for a long time in the chaos of Anshi.Until the reconstruction of Emperor Taizong period,the catering system had another style,showing more refined characteristics than that in the earlier period.As a topic of system history,it can be seen that the development of Finance and economy in the whole Tang Dynasty.Because it is connected with political affairs,so that the study of the official banquet in Tang,it can also be seen that the political changes of the Tang Dynasty.The Tang Dynasty was an era of succession in the history of our country,and the official banquet system that was founded in the Tang Dynasty can be said to be a political extension.In the late Tang Dynasty,the court and officials paid more attention to the official banquet to increase its significance.The eclipse system can finally be inherited by the later dynasties,not only because it brought an institutional basis to the latter,but also because of all its positive features.