The government will bestow some official positions to the man who is dead.This institution is one of the important reward institutions in ancient China.Its generation can trace back to the earlier West Han, through the development in Liang Han, Wei Jin and South and North Dynasty.lt has appeared an obvious institutional trend in Tang Dynasty.The Tang Dynasty is the mature and reform period of the official institution of ancient China.We can not only find the trend of the bestow official positions, but also understand the change of the society and politics in Tang Dynasty.The first part is the preface,include the illustration of the significance of the subject,and evaluation of the research achievements we have made. Then discuss the relative problems of the definition of the bestowal official position,and make a proper definition of it in accordance with the actual situation in Tang Dynasty.What more,this part explains the connotation of the bestowal official position.The second part is to research the change of the ancestry's bestowal official position.It can divided into three parts from the lengthwise:the evolvement of the bestowal official position of the dynasties before Tang dynasty, the Tang dynasty, and the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Wu Dai and Song dynasty on the term of the evolvement. By the way of discuss the achievements which the former scholars have made, and static the data, we can find the evolvement venation of the dynasties before Tang dynasty. The evolvement of the bestowal official position of Tang Dynasty is the central part of this part, it include five periods, the period before Zhong Zong, the period between Zhong Zong and Xuan gong, the period between Su Zong and Dai Zong,the period between De Zong and Xian Zong,the period of Mu Zong and the period after Mu Zong.By collect and investigate the commands and dictations,we can discuss the traits of its evolvement, accompany with the causes of the generationof these traits,and the relationship between the evolvement of the bestowal official position and the practical official institutions.By investigate the commands and the dictations of ancestry's bestowal official position of Wu Dai and Song Dynasty, we can discuss the accomplishment of the institutional of the ancestry's bestow official position, and the relationship between them. The evolvement of the ancestry's bestowal official position can divided into officer's ancestry's and empress's ancestry's from the breadthwise. The officer's ancestry's bestowal official position have had a big change in criterion,content,and subject.The empress's ancestry's have not change obvious.The third part is about the evolvement of the bestowal official position of the officers selves. It can divided into three periods from the lengthwise,the period of the dynasties before Tang Dynasty, the period of Tang dynasty, and the period of Wu Dai and Song Dynasty. By collect the research achievements of the former scholars'and static the data, we can discuss the venation of the evolvement of the officers seleves' bestowal official position of the dynasties before Tang Dynasty. The evolvement of the Tang dynasty is the centre part of this part, it can divided into nine period, the period Gao Zu and Tai Zong, Gao zong and Wu Hou, Zhong Zong and Rui Zong, Xuan Zong, Su Zong and Dai Zong, De Zong, Shun Zong and Xian Zong, Mu Zong,Jing Zong,Wen Zong and Wu Zong, Xuan Zong and the period after Xuan Zong. We can discuss the evolvement traits by investigate the static data of these nine periods, accompany with the discussion of the causes of the traits'generation,and the relationship between the evolvement and the change of the practical official institutions.The relationship of the officer's selves bestowal official position between Tang and Wu Dai,Song is represent in the inherit of Wu Dai and Song from Tang Dynasty.The content of the bestowal official position include double bestowal, single bestowal, promotion and demotion of official positions and the changes of the class of the bestowal official position. The official position before death include the the promotion and demotion of official position and the changes of the class of the official position before death, we can conclude the evolvement traits of the officers' selves bestowal official position, through discuss the content and the change of the official position before death, and we can debate the causes of the traits generation and understand the change of the practical officers'character.On the whole, this article discuss the evolvement trend of the bestowal official position in mediaeval age from the aspect of reform, and make a thoroughly research of the process of the change of bestowal official position in Tang Dynasty. Some of the opinions and conceptions are the first time to bring forward in academy, it will be good for the research of the problem. |