Study On The Geography Of Guangdong’s Political District In Sui Dynasty

Through military conquest and cooperation with the indigenous tribes,the Sui dynasty achieved its rule over Guangdong Province.Starting from the ninth year of Emperor Kaihuang(开皇),the Sui Dynasty reformed the administrative districts of Guangdong,and realized its initial rule over Guangdong through the unification of most county administrative districts in southwest Guangdong in the early Sui Dynasty.During the reign of Daye(大业),the Sui Dynasty continued to integrate and reform the administrative regions.At first,it continued to cut down a large number of provinces and counties in the southwest of Guangdong,and then implemented the measures of abolishing the states into counties,implementing the two-level system of counties,and finally realized the reconstruction of the administrative regions in Guangdong.This series of transformation is reflected in the reduction of the number of administrative posts and the gradual pivotal and militarization of the positioning of administrative posts.Due to the decrease of the number of administrative posts,the remaining administrative posts are mostly located at traffic nodes and important military strongholds,and the control over the whole administrative region is realized through the Chinese network(华夏网络)formed by administrative posts.Sui dynasty guangdong although on the surface of administrative zones are all directly under the jurisdiction of the central region,but from its seat position,state,county sheriff’s identity and appointment form,under rule groups or states of grass-roots management point of view,they’re actually between the states of jimi(羁縻)and the form of administrative zones among system states,the so-called the formal states of jimi.The distribution of the formal states of jimi has a lot of coincidence with the road system and vassal state system since Qin and Han Dynasties,the county system which mannage indigenous,the system of jimi,tusi system,the practice of regional ethnic autonomy system,is ethnic area management system an important part in the process of evolution,only military and political means of the implementation of the sui dynasty through strong made of two levels of the administrative system,to implement on the surface of the rule,its core is in line with the management system of ethnic areas since the Qin and Han dynasties,and has profoundly influenced the jimi system in the Tang and Song dynasties.The sui Dynasty exercised formal administrative region rule over the present Guangdong region,which was influenced by the strong ethnic forces in the South of the Five Ridges(岭南).Second,the Sui Dynasty did not plunder the South of the Five Ridges resources like the Southern Dynasty,but needed to implement the overall rule through actual control,which made the Sui Dynasty’s attitude towards the indigenous people in the south the same as other regions,so there was no need to show the difference of the indirect administrative system;Third,the development trend of the political districts in the ethnic autonomous areas is the gradual prefecturization in politics and military.The formal states of jimi in the Sui Dynasty is the inevitable link of this development trend.On the one hand,the weakening and oppression of the local powerful tribes in The Sui Dynasty formed the formal unification,on the other hand,it also made the local powerful tribes strongly rebounded in the struggles in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties,and finally formed the situation of many counties in jimi prefecture in the South of the Five Ridges in the Tang and Song dynasties,with frequent rebellions.