On The Safeguarding System Of The Imperial Palace In Donghan Dynasty

The safeguarding system of the imperial palace was one of the significant systems that it intensified imperial power and protect the ruling order under the imperial power in ancient China. At the same time it also is indispensable component as studying archaic military system and political system of centralization in China. The safeguarding system of the imperial palace in Donghan Dynasty is a very important part in this task, and therefore it deserves careful study.This thesis is divided into six chapters to discuss the safeguarding system of the imperial palace in Donghan Dynasty. In the first chapter it is discussed to the layout and arrangement of the imperial palace in Donghan Dynasty. It is clear in the layout that the capital of Luoyang is periphery barrier, and the main body of the imperial palace is made up of imperial city, common palaces and nuclear palaces from outer part to inner . And like so, the arrangement of the safeguarding imperial palace is mainly composed of four parts that the periphery of the imperial palace is controlled by Five Xiaowei and Zhijinwu, the imperial city is charged by Weiwei, the common palaces are guarded by Guangluxun and the nuclear palaces are protected by the eunuchs. Being independent each other ,they are made up into the multilayer levels in safeguarding imperial palace of Donghan Dynasty because of their cooperation. The second chapter discusses the official system of safeguarding imperial palace from the aspects of its organizing structure, its selecting standard and its being-an-official approach, through which we try hard to explain its integer character. According to its administrative levels ,the official system was divided into the officials of outer safeguarding imperial palace, safeguarding imperial city, common palaces and nuclear palaces in the arrangement. The officials of outer safeguarding imperial palace included Zhijinwu, Five Xiaowei and Xiaowei taking charge of the city gate, who directly guarded the periphery of the imperial palace. The officials of safeguarding imperial city were consisted of Weiwei and guarder's chiefs of Southern palace and Northern palace. The officials of the common palaces were mainly made up of the generals of Sanshu, Huben and Yulin. The officials of the nuclear palaces, who belonged to Shaofu on the surface, basically were occupied by the powerful eunuchs. The selecting standard of the safeguarding officials, which approximately was in accord with the universal standard of Donghan Dynasty's choosing official such as fealty, probity, braveness, erudition and so on, has some obvious characters on its self. Firstly, it was especially emphasized to the diathesis such as fealty and braveness. Secondly, emperor's kinfolks was a large proportion in the officials of the safeguarding imperial palace. The being-an-official approach of the safeguarding officials, which was similar to other official's, was mainly scrutinizing recommendation, emperor's instatement and appointing kinsfolk. On the whole, the military power of the toppest officials in each level was very restricted, because they were not captain, but supervisor. And, the official's rank was basically uniform in order to retain their balance. These are just the evident exhibition of Donghan's imperial power. The third chapter is about the soldiery system of safeguarding imperial palace in Donghan Dynasty. The soldiers were mostly made up of a part of eunuch belonged to Shaofu, most of the Lang belonged to Guangluxun, guardsmen belonged to Weiwei, Tiji and Chijishi belonged to Zhijinwu, guarders belonged to Five Xiaowei and the gate-soldiers belonged to the City gate –Xiaowei. Seeing about from the military strength, primary source, organizing management of the soldiers, we found that, as the important force of Donghan Dynasty, it was complex for the soldiers to source, strict to manage and rigorous to administer. Approximately calculated, the number of the army, which was less than Xihan Dynasty's, only was about 12600, but because of canc...