Study On The Cause Of Palace Coup In Liao Dynasty

Liao Dynasty is established by our ancient northern minority Qidan nationality. Liao Dynasty which was established in AD 907 and lasted far 218 years and was destroyed by Jin Dynasty in AD 1125. Liao Dynasty occupies relatively important status in ancient Chinese dynasties, it made great difference between Liao Dynasty and ZhongYuan dynasty on its political system, social customs and so on. The research in Liao Dynasty has found out a noticeable problem that the dynasty occurred palace coup frequency far higher than any of ZhongYuan dynasty. In the period of Liao Dynasty, coup, rebellion incidents happened frequently, what reasons has caused the phenomena? This article deeper will make a deeper discussion on this issues.Firstly, reasons which leading to the occurrence of Liao Dynasty palace are summerized as institutional factors and personal factors. Secondly, this two factors were further refined, in Institutional factors will focus placed on inheritance system and safeguarding system investigation, in throne inheritance system investigate aspect, the article paid great attention to Liao Dynasty neither establish sturdy entropy eldest son inheritance system nor fully eliminate the hereditary system of election impact, and also led Liao Dynasty palace coup often around throne succession problems. In safeguarding system, as the detailed historical record on this issue in less, to increase convincing, the article special will Liao Dynasty safeguarding system and ZhongYuan dynasty safeguarding system were horizontal comparison, trying to identify Liao Dynasty safeguarding system weak where; in artificial factors would placed on Queen family, Han nationality officials, emperor themselives three aspects conducted an investigation, focused on the Queen's family in the palace in the works studied.