Research On The "Imperial Ancestors’ Ideas And Instructions" From The Perspective Of Constitution

"Practicing the instructions of the ancestors" and "Following the system of the ancestors" are a distinctive feature of imperial China.However,the connotation and nature of the "Imperial Ancestors’ ideas and instructions" is not clear,and its names are not the same.The "Imperial Ancestors’ ideas and instructions" of Song Dynasty included the concept,spirit,principle and strategy of self-cultivation,establishment and consolidation of political order that the founding emperor of Song Dynasty gradually formed and explained under the background of his era.In the process of the Song Dynasty,its core content was integrated into the construction of the fundamental system of the Song Dynasty,which ran through the whole process of the Song Dynasty’s governance.This article starts from the "Imperial Ancestors’ ideas and instructions" to discuss the constitutional issue,and re-understands the "Imperial Ancestors’ ideas and instructions"from the perspective of the constitutional system."Imperial Ancestors’ ideas and instructions" is the political contract between royal family and the scholar-official group,as well as the political contract between the royal family itself,can be regarded as the meta constitution,which guides the construction of the constitutional system.The ancestors’stories emphasized by the emperors of the Song dynasty are just statements or practices aimed at specific issues.Some appear in the form of ancestral instructions or holy government,and some will be transformed into dynastic systems and laws,all of which reflect the spirit of "Imperial Ancestors’ idea and instructions".The emperor,the chief minister and the Taijian carried out dynastic governance and power interaction around the "Imperial Ancestors’ idea and instructions".The content of Wang Anshi’s reform itself did not violate the "Imperial Ancestors’ ideas and instructions",but Wang Anshi changed the central operation mode by relying on the imperial power,and only appointed officials who supported the reform,touching the sensitive part of the "Imperial Ancestors’ ideas and instructions",which actually caused the imperial power to be too inflated and decision-making.Lack of dissent.The"three deficiencies" made it impossible for the scholar-official group to maintain the balance formed in the early stage with the imperial power.From this perspective,the reform has constitutional significance,and the primary function of the "Imperial Ancestors’ ideas and instructions" is to maintain and regulate the imperial power.So the problem about system reform transformed into Whether to adhere to the "Imperial Ancestors’ ideas and instructions".