A Commentary On Hostage System Of Han Dynasties

Hostage system,which rooted from "to present hostages as pawn" between the feudal princes of Spring and Autumn Period Warring Stases Time,was preliminarily established the system described "sending pepole for hostages" and "presenting hostages as vassals" in Western and Eastern Han Dynasty. For central feudal dynasties,hostage system was one of the most important political systems to settle national relations,as well as a political tool to loosely control the minority areas and to carry out the general plan of playing one barbarian state against another".As a result of the special historical period,this system presented the bright time characters.On the whole,hostage system was in keeping with the aspiration of both Han dynasties and The Minority .As a result,it objectively strengthened Han dynasties' ties with minority nationalities in the four sides;consolidated Han's dominations to The Minority; increased the economic and culural communication between Central Plains and the borderlands; as well as speeded up the Chinese Nation's mixed-together and unification.The hostage system was made an all-out effort to practise by later rulers,but also winned close attention of historian both in ancient and modern times. So it has important position in Chinese administrative history,which can't to be nelected.