The Study Of Tang Dynasty's Social Relief Policy

Tang Dynasty is a golden era for the social development in ancient China, and it also is the most prosperous time of the feudal society in our country history. Its social relief activity already is quite advanced, which is displayed through not only the effective government relief policy, but also non-government organization such as the"Sheyi"cooperation organization and the Buddhism temple charitable behavior. The social relief policy, which the Tang Dynasty government implements, is discussed mainly in six parts in the article.In the first part, the thought foundation of Tang Dynasty's society relief policy is discussed and the author tries to track down the implementation reason of Tang Dynasty's social relief policy from the thought root. Tang Dynasty's social relief policy was quite influenced by pre-Qin period's human oriented thought, Confucianist's justice and humanity theory, Buddhism's mercy idea and the Zhenguan ruling clique's thought.In the second part, Tang Dynasty's society relief policy to the disaster victims will be elaborated. Tang Dynasty is a concurrent time of many kinds of natural calamities, which would not only bring huge destruction to the production and the life of populace, but also lead to the confusion of the social order. Therefore, in order to consolidate their domination status, the emperors of Tang Dynasty expanded agricultural production vigorously and established a warehousing system during the good seasons on one hand. On the other hand, the governments took a series of relief measures to give relief to the disaster victims when the natural calamities happened. After the natural calamities, the federal governors would request the local government to supervise the disaster victims to restore their production and reduced their pay in labor.In the third part, the Tang Dynasty's social relief policy to the elderly is discussed. It is inevitable to grow old for everyone and it is also a realistic problem that no danasty could avoid. So, giving special care to the elderly is one of the most important of all previous dynasties. The social relief policy to the elderly expatiated in the article mainly has two aspect meanings. Firstly, it mainly refers to one kind of rituals of state, which is an etiquette activity of all previous dynasties holded for the elderly. Secondly, it is the special operational policy measures implemented by the country, which can care the life of the elderly through providing clothes and the grain.In the fourth part, the author has mainly analyzed Tang Dynasty's society relief policy to widowers, widows, orphans and childless. Firstly, the policy regulates the age and the standard of widowers, widows, orphans and childless. Secondly, it is the key point to discuss Tang Dynasty's society relief measures to widowers, widows, orphans and childless such as the material grants, pay in labor reduces, the medical funeral relief and so on.In the fifth part, Tang Dynasty's society relief policy to the disabled person is mainly discussed. Firstly, the author elaborates the standard and the relevant law stipulation about the disabled person of Tang Dynasty. Secondly,the society relief policy is mainly elaborated for the disabled person in Tang Dynasty such as the material grants, pay in labor reduces, matches to serious waits on Ding and so on.In the sixth part, Tang Dynasty's society relief policy for the soldiers and their family members is discussed separately. Firstly the author makes a brief introduction about the Military Service of Tang Dynasty, and points out that the life was very hard to the soldiers and their family members not only in the fu-soldier's system but also in the enlistment. Next, the author mainly probes into Tang Dynasty's relief for the soldiers and their families, such as the relief of objects, the land priority, relieving taxes and corvee, the relief of medical and funeral. In brief, It is beneficial in understanding the reason of the Tang Dynasty social economy unprecedented development to summarize Tang Dynasty's social relief experience, which is also helpful for us to race the Song,Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the near modern relief activity. At the same time, it may provide the beneficial model and the reference for the present stage social relief and the social security enterprise.