The Studies Of Xijing-Cultural Of Liao Empire

At the first year of Huitong (938 years) in Emperor Taizong of Liao, Shi Jingtang would give 16 states in Youyun to the Liao Dynasty in accordance with the agreed plan. The 13th year of Chongxi (in 1044), as war in the state, in the strategic upgrade position of Yunzhou, Liao Xingzong promoted Yunzhou to Xijing, and Xijing become the political, economic and cultural center in the Southwest of Liao.During the 187 years that Liao dominated Xijng, the agriculture, animal husbandry, handicrafts and construction industry developed rapidly and achieved considerable success in Xijing. Xijing not only become important sources of food base and revenue, but also the handicraft products and technologies may one of the output. The economic prosperity in Xijing for the culture and spiritual culture of the preconditions for the further development. Xijing located in the transitional zones of agriculture and animal husbandry, and under the rule of frequent interaction between farming and nomadic peoples long time, which the Central Plains and northern nomadic alternative regime. The system makes Xijing of Liao Dynasty culture and spiritual culture presents a unique regional characteristics. To study of hilly land, official system of the military system, education system, the systems can be found more of cultural in Xijing that are the heritage of the Tang dynasty of the systems of culture, but under the influence of the Khitan ethnic institutional culture and institutional culture and the institutional of Song of Central China, the institutional culture of Xijing has demonstrated institutional culture is different from the variability of the Tang Dynasty.The spiritual cultural is complexity and diversity in Xijing of Liao, through the research of Xijing human values, religious beliefs, aesthetic taste, we are not difficult to find that Confucian culture is still the mainstream culture Xijing region. Xijing revered Confucian, Buddhist. The tomb murals of Xijing that clear reflect the Xijing and Han people were similar with aesthetic taste. However, under the influence of strong cultural of the Khitan, the Xijing people's dress, the hair style Aw tendency, while the concept of life and marriage has also quietly changed, These explains the grassland culture has become second parliamentary culture only to sub-Confucian culture .