The Official System's Vicissitude Of Northern Wei Dynasty

The Northern Wei state was the first political power which establishes by the national minority, and it ruled the Huanghe River area for a long time. Northern Wei, it developing from original tribe to tribe alliance and to the Unified country, it is a famous achievement which belong to various races people's joint effort. How to unites various races people, the system of selecting and using Government officials appears very important.The selecting and using Government officials system of Northern Wei were mainly passed by three stages are as follows:The first, in the earlier period, the officer rose by milistary exploit,the country's develop mainly depend on Tuoba nobels and soldiers who were good at Military action. With the rule region's extension, the ruler of the Northern Wei payed more attention to attract high-quality personnel especially the Han landlord, but sometimes wins over and sometimes repels.The second, in the middle period. In order to alleviate the ontradictory which between the Xianbei merit expensively and the Han nationality landlord. King Xiaowen introduced of powerful family system from south dynasty. And from than on the family status became the main standard for official choosing.The third, later period of Northern Wei Dynasty.Because of the intensification of social contradictory, "Ting Nian Ge "as a formality of chose officer's system to make sure .the standard to choose a officer were the age and locate resume instead of the family statusability and the moral qualities. many old and weak person were filled with the Officialdom, accelerating the perishe of Northern Wei Dynasty.