The Tour Of Emperors In Northern Wei Dynasty

The tour of emperors in ancient China is meant the emperor leave the capital and inspect the local regiona and border areas. The tour of inspection in Wei,Jin, and the North and South Dynasty has time characteristics which given from the background of separatist and unrest . Especially during Northern Wei Dynasty time,because Minority entered and dominate the Central plains,The emperor of Northern Wei Dynasty made inspection much more than the Southern Dynasty emperor. During the time of Daowu emperor ,Mingyuan emperor ,Taiwu emperor and Xiaowen emperor,the tour of inspection almost throughout theirs entire reign time.Their inspection activities had the closely correlation with the empire destiny, officials, wars and customs.In this paper,first I take the every Northern Wei emperor as the research object. 'The tour of Northern Wei emperor' twill lists the detail of the tour of emperors. And then analyzed the reasons for inspecting purpose and effect of each emperor.Then I study the different characteristic in each emperor's reign time. After that, the author analyzes the relationship between emperors tour and the Northern Wei Dynasty history from the macroscopic aspect. Mainly from the political focus transefer, economical reforming, the nationality moveing and Reconstruction the Orthodoxy and to analyzed the relationship between the emperor's tour and the development of Dynasty's politics, economical, the ethnic relations and ideology .Northern Wei emperor's tour not only has the characteristics such as appeasing home and stabilizing frontier,propagandizing the national prestige, comforting people and observing custom and so on,but also some unique time characteristics,for example, propagandizing Hanization, flaunt Orthodoxy. Moreover, different emperor'tour has different emphasis point. Daowu emperor and Taiwu emperor'tour focused on expanding territory and reuniting the north of china. Ming Yuan and Wen cheng emperor mainly took stabilizes the society, the consolidated political power as the goal. And Xianwen and Xiaowen emperor devoted to full-scale Hanization and moveing the capital to Luoyan.In the early and middle of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because the dynasty is in the rise and the development time, emperor's tour is extremely frequently;in the later stage , as strength decline, the times of emperor's tour has been greatly reduced.we can know wether the national power strong or weak according to the number of the emperor's tour.Transformed Nomadic Nations into Agricultural Nations, political focus transefered north to south, from a national minority regime to full-scale Hanization,these changes of Northern Wei Dynasty maybe studied by some scholars, but this article attempt from the emperor's tour angle to study these changs.And fround these changes are consistent with the change od the tour direction .'The tour of Northern Wei emperor' and 'Ancient and modern Geographic name Comparative table of the place that Northern Wei emperor tour' attached after the paper.The two table maybe can more directly and clearly reflect the tour of emperors . Also will be bring the convenience for future research.