A Study On The Relationship Between Eunuchs In The Northern Wei Dynasty And Imperial Power

In the Northern Wei Dynasty, the eunuch groups is closely related to the imperial power. The eunuch groups serving both inside and outside is good for the Northern Wei Dynasty bureaucratic politics constructing and the imperial power strengthening in aspects of political developing. But eunuch groups may weaken the emperor’s power in some political event because they turned to different political groups based on different political orientation and cultural orientation and participated in political struggle by dependind on external towards Hu.The Northern Wei Dynasty imperial power transformating from military occupation power faced pressure brought by the Xianbei and Han aristocracy. The hindering effect from Xianbei aristocracy for further expansion impediment of the Northern Wei Dynasty imperial power is very obvious. The imperial power restrained Xianbei and Han aristocracy by arranging close eunuch holding important positions. The job scope of eunuch acrossed imperial court and local field office. The service scope of eunuch involved personnel, justice, etiquette, military and so on. It is obvious that imperial power strengthening on these important areas and positions control from eunuch power infiltrate into these fields. These measures were also effective for restraining Xianbei and Han aristocracy and constructing the bureaucracy. The bureaucratic groups attachment to imperial power was being formed by viewing the eunuch burial tomb arranged nearby Luoyang and the clean-fingered and remarkable administrative style of eunuch groups.The localization and anti-Chinese wave appear alternated in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The court political conflicts affected the eunuch differentiation. The Hu power of eunuch groups involved in court political conflicts such as ZongAI coup, Emperor Xiaowen localization restructuring and YuanCha dictatorship political events. Although the Hu power of eunuch groups may sometimes sway. Finally it would be cleaned. It was propitious to the eunuch gradually finished for tendency of Hu eunuch groups gradually being cleaned. In the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasty, tendency of eunuch groups was still a mixture of Hu and Han mainly, but some eunuch and eunuch family members had shown obvious scribe features of localization. In the eunuch finished the course, the Northern Wei rulers implemented localization restructuring, imperial court finished educational institutions establishment, eunuchs and the scholars of the Han nationality exchanges and other factors also had played a certain action.The social status of eunuch raising or lowering and the eunuch working as the palace guards and Orient House officials were also some important aspects of the relationship between the imperial power and the eunuch. The Northern Wei Dynasty imperial power showed its power on repressing resistance forces and the ability of dominating and controlling bureaucratic group by lifting the social status of eunuch. The eunuch working as palace guards and Orient House officials would have a certain impact on the emperor’s personal safety and behavior.