The Study To Liao Dynasty’s Linya System

Linya System of Liao Dynasty is an important part in the Officer System of LiaoDynasty. Research on Linya System has great significance of learning the overalldevelopment of Literary Officer System in Liao Dynasty. Linya Officers in this essayinclude Wenbansi, Big Linya Court, Linya South and North Court, Left and Right Linyain Privy Council, Linya in the Four Bureau and so on. The first section summarizes theachievement of the previous studies about Linya system of Liao Dynasty. From theorigin of Linya Officer, composition of the staff, election of the officers and also thefunction of Linya officer, considering the changing process of Wenbansi and NationalAcademy, this essay studies the relevant contents of Linya System. Linya, originatedfrom clerk officer in Liao Dynasty and after that Emperor Taizong of Liao Dynastycreated National Academy and Emperor Shengzong set up Big Linya Court. At this time,Big Linya Court and National Academy from north and south formed the whole LiteraryOfficer System in Liao Dynasty. About the election of the officers, there are many waysto elect the officers including imperial examination, monarch’s intimate ministers,hereditary system and so on.Different levels of Linya have different functions includinghigh-level Linya’s imperial edict, revision of history, imperial poetry, etiquette and soon, and low-level Linya’s simple clerk and keeping the account book and so on. The lastpart of the essay analyses Linya System as a specific literary system in the feudalizationfrom beginning to falling through the overall variation trend of North Literary system ofLiao Dynasty, which is about formation of tribe system and deepening of feudalization.