A Study On The Group Of The Southern Scholars In The Early Northern Song Dynasty

After the Northern Song Dynasty unified the South,with the expansion of its territory,it faced the problem of serious local absenteeism,and the need for the policy of mollification.The Northern Song Dynasty court absorbed a large number of southern scholars.However,due to geopolitical factors,the southern scholars in the early Northern Song Dynasty experienced a political process from being suppressed to rising.This article is divided into four parts to interpret the southern scholar groups in the early Northern Song Dynasty.The first part focuses on the analysis of the composition of the Southern Scholar Group in the early Northern Song Dynasty,including not only the subjugated ministers who entered the Song Dynasty from various separatist regimes or forces in the south,but also the new bureaucrats who entered the Song Dynasty from the southern regions.The second part analy Mes the way in which the southern literati groups entered official positions and their development and evolution in the early Northern Song Dynasty.Generally speaking,the ways of entering official positions of southern scholars are relatively complex,but for the ministers who entered official positions from southern regions in the Northern Song Dynasty,they mainly entered official positions by directly granting official positions after returning to the dynasty;For emerging bureaucrats,they mainly enter official positions through imperial examinations.In the Tai Mu Dynasty,southern scholars mainly entered the official ranks by directly granting officials after returning to the dynasty.In the Tai Mong and Mhen Mong dynasties,with the unification of the south and the increase in the number of imperial examinations,southern scholars mainly entered the official ranks through the imperial examinations.The third part examines the political situation of southern scholars from three periods: Tai Mu,Tai Mong,and Mhen Mong.During the Tai Mu Dynasty,a large number of southern ministers entered the court,undoubtedly facing political distrust.The Tai Mong Dynasty continued the policies of the Tai Mu Dynasty,but by participating in imperial examinations and book repairs,the status of scholars in the south began to rise in the court,and as a result,they were ostraci Med by scholars in the north.Emperor Mhen Mong no longer had the concept of dividing the north from the south in terms of attitude.After the development of the previous two dynasties,southern scholars had an increasingly important position in the imperial court.With the launching of the eastern enfeoffment and western worship activities,Wang Qinruo broke the ancestral law of "never having a southern ruler" and successfully worshipped,laying a foundation for later southern scholars to worship.The fourth part focuses on the investigation of the rise in the power of scholars in the south,and the scholars in the north and south competed around the position of prime minister and the rules of the imperial examination.The essence of the struggle was to safeguard the political interests of their own party.