A Study Of The Warring States Officials In Ancient Chinese Characters

"Since the decline of the Zhou Dynasty, the officials system deviate d from the normal and fell into disorder, and with the warfare arising, the officials system changed dramatically. " Officials Introduction Chapter, Hi story of the Han Dynasty In the Warring States Period, all the states confl icted with each other, and it was hard to create the books of Rites of Zhou and Six Kinds of Han Officials System and Rites, etc. Although some Qin of ficials were remained in Officials Introduction Chapter, History of the Han Dynasty, the officials in the other four systems were scattered in the han ded-down documents. Until Ming Dynasty, Dong Shuo wrote the Seven States Re search, and picked up the samples relating to the officials in the handed-d own documents. Thereafter, on the basis of Seven States Research, many scho lars made a further research to that subject with handed-down documents and unearthed character data. In recent several decades, there were many unear thed or published Qin system and Chu system data in the Warring States Peri od, so the research about five-system officials in the Warring States Perio d were concentrated on the Qin system and Chu system. This paper discussed the relevant subjects by taking abundant ancient data and synthesizing the existed statement to comprehensively make the five-system officials in the Warring States Period clear.This paper divided the states in the Warring States Period into five systems like the Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan and Jin through referring to the existed Warring State Period character region system in academic circles. The first chapter was Qin system officials, and the second chapter was Qi system officials, the third was Chu system officials, the fourth was Yan system officials and the fifth was Jin system officials. From the first chapter to the fifth chapter, this paper concluded the available materials about the officials in the Warring States Period writing according to the administrator, military official, judiciary, handicraft official, court affairs official, historical official, horse official, field official and ancestral temple etiquette, priesthood and musician official, etc. On the basis of that, this paper discussed the relevant subjects through synthesizing existed statement.The conclusion summarized the officials according to the five systems and cleared up as well as compared the five-system officials in the Warring States Period. In Section 11 "Others", the paper also discussed the "Du "and "She official" local administration unit and temporary officials. In Section 12 "Remain to be verified", this paper discussed the "Po" and "Zuo Tu" in Qi, Chu and Yan systems.