The Politics Of Imperial Power Of The Southern Dynasties And The Wang Family And The Xie Family

The thesis inspects the process of cooperation and conflict between the top families that contain the Wang family of Langya and the Xie family of Chenjun and imperial power, and the adjustments and changes on culture and on internal relation of families that is maked by the two families in the background that the politics of imperial power of the Southern Dynasties replaced the politics of the top families of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.On politics: At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after the northern military bloc gained the power, the Wang-Xie figures delegating the top families gived themselves up to the generals coming from low families of the northern military bloc. Because the historys of the two families in the Eastern Jin Dynasty were different, the way of combining with the northern military bloc were different. And this caused the paths of the two families in the Southern Dynasties were different. The Xie family was active only at the beginning of the Liu-Song Dynasty, and withdrawed from politics after suffering attacks in the period of Liu Yilong. The Wang family was active in the period of the Song and Qi dynasties, it was getting on very well with the earlie imperial power of the Liu-Song Dynasty, and acquired much politicail benefits by helping the imperial power attack meritorious statesmen in the period of Liu Yilong. But after the Xiao Wu emperor assumed power The Wang family began to suffer attacks from the imperial power, and withdrawed finally from politics at the end of the Qi Dynasty.On culture: Along with the imperial power of the Southern Dynasties strengthened and the Confucianism renewed, The Wang family and The Xie family were forced to abandon the metaphysics and empty talk, began to study Confucian classics. When the two families departed from power core, and along with knowledge became decisive factor of personal status, the two families began to depend on the Confucianism that authorities encouraged to consolidate their status, at the same time they had to gain government official by attending tests that tested Confucian classics and was managed by authorities. So there was a indication that "the metaphysics returned to the Confucianism on culture in the Southern Dynasties.On internal relation of families: The internal relation of the Wang family and the Xie family of the Southern Dynasties had a transversion from disharmony to harmony that was closely related to theis political variation. The contradictions and discords in internal relation of The Wang family and The Xie family took only place when the two families joined actively politics, The Wang family happened in the period of the Song and Qi dynasties, The Xie family happened at the Song dynasties. But when the two families departed from power core because of attacks from imperial power, and because authorities advocated filial piety and fraternal duty and punished the actions that was't in accordance with filial, as well as metaphysics returned to the Confucianism, the two families emerged a large number of the actions of filial piety and fraternal duty at the end of the Southern Dynasties.By inspecting The Wang family and The Xie family of the Southern Dynasties, we can know that for seeking development, the top families had to give themselves up to the politics of imperial power. But the ways of combining with imperial power were different. And thanks to attacks from imperial power they all departed finally from power core. Besides, we can find out that in order to adapt the politics of imperial power the top families were forced to make a variety of adjustment on culture and On internal relation of families.