Scholars In Shandong And Northern Dynasties Chinese

Because of their traditional wealth and influence, a few of the influential and privileged family of scholar-officials who did not depart from the north area had played a very important role in the development of the northern society in the Northern Dynasties age. In the age of the Northern Wei Dynasty, large numbers of outstanding people came forward from the Cui clan of Qinghe, and they dedicated themselves to the cultural dissemination of the Han nationality. Depending mainly on the Confucianism, they continued to permeate the political system and the civilization of ceremony through the Northern Wei society, thus they advanced the sinicization course of the Northern Wei and exerted a long and deep influence to it. Cui Xuanbo(Hong) and his son Cui Hao were the key figures in the political system construction of the Northern Wei Dynasty's early stage.From the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the age of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, some of the Shandong hereditary landowning elites who had migrated to the south kept on removing to the north, and these persons became the envoys for both the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the middle-late stage of the Northern Wei Dynasty, these elites especially the Qing-qi elites had made multiplex contributions to the social change and the sphere of learning and culture. Since that in this stage the sinicization was at its upsurge, the Northern Wei Dynasty devoted its major efforts to draw on the feudality of the Han nationality in many ways, and during this process, due to their profound accomplishment of scholarship and background of the southern culture, the Qing-qi clan had became the main power of the conveyance about the Han nationality system and culture.