The Imperial Examination System And The Transition From Aristocratic Politics To Bureaucratic Politics In The Early Tang Dynasty

Since the Wei and Jin dynasties,the tyranny of aristocrats,and the rigidity of the official-selecting system,which lead to the right of officials manipulated by aristocrats,even above the imperial power,seriously threatening the normal operation of the bureaucratic mode.Finality during the development process of the bureaucratic,it occurred reversion,forming the operation model of imperial power-aristocratic political.Imperial politics was extremely weak.With the emergence of the united empire of the Sui and Tang Dynasties,the age of the aristocrat politics was over,but the influence of the old literati,represented by the Shandong literati,was still strong and became the political object which was hit by Sui and Tang dynasties.And the"Guan Long Group",as the main body of the bureaucratic group In the Sui and the early Tang Dynasty,its win alone situation led to the aristocratic trend of the bureaucratic group more and more obvious,so that the politics of the Sui and early Tang Dynasty manifested more obviously the characteristics of aristocratic politics.After the implementation of the imperial examination system as the new election official system,the Sui and Tang dynasties rulers succeeded in retaking the right of election official from the hands of the noble family,the imperial power had been strengthened,at the same time,the establishment and improvement of the three provinces and six Ministries system,which further strengthened the imperial power politics.The rise of the emerging aristocrat forces in the imperial examination system became the backbone to revive the imperial power politics.The influence of the old literati and the Guan Long Group had been disintegrated in the political struggle in the early period of the Tang Dynasty.With the expansion of the imperial examinations and the increase in the number of members,the composition of the bureaucratic group undergo changes,this change in the prime minister from the Tang Dynasty to Emperor Xuanzong Era is particularly evident.In the early Tang Dynasty,the combination of the imperial examination system and the imperial power politics,and the gradual perfection of the official system,finally resulted in the successful completion of the transformation from aristocratic politic to bureaucratic politic,and the reconstruction of the imperial power-bureaucratic political operation model since the Wei and Jin dynasties.