The Talents’georgraphical Distribution And Their Political Influence Of The Wu Kingdom And The Shu Kingdom In The Period Of The Three Kingdoms

The period of the Three Kingdoms was in chaos and disturbances, in which a great many talents sprung up. They chose the monarchs who are followed and served, based on the belief that good birds choose to live in the suitable woods, and excellent ministers choose to serve for the suitable monarchs, and founded and consolidated the regime that they depended on. In the early time, they distributed in different regions of Han Dynasty. Then they were assigned to take office in distinct places of the Three Kingdoms after belonging to one certain Kingdom. Therefore, talents have a close relationship with geography. That is, either talents are protruded because of geographical factors, or geography is salient because of talents’factors, which produces a vital influence on politics in that period. In addition, talents’geographical distribution was also closely related to such factors as politics, economy, and culture in that period. As a result, it is extremely important to summarize and analyze the complicated relationship between talents and geography and its vital influence on politics in order to more comprehensively and more precisely comprehend the history of the Three Kingdoms.For a long time, the academic field puts more research emphasis on the talents of the Cao Wei Kingdom. However, this paper focuses research on talents’geographical distribution of the Shu Kingdom and the Wu Kingdom. Firstly, this thesis demonstrates the general situation of talents’ geographical distribution of the Three Kingdoms from an integral perspective, namely, it analyses the reason for influencing talents’ geographical distribution in that period from the angles of politics, economy, culture and geography. Then on the basis of detailed statistics of the places where they were born and took office, it concretely explores the particulars of talents’ geographical distribution of the two Kingdoms, and further analyses the important influence of talents’ geographical distribution on the regimes of the Sun Wu Kingdom and the Shu Han Kingdom, the strategies of selecting talents and the political tendency of the rules.This paper is divided into five parts in all. The introduction introduces the reason and significance of the research, the quo status of relevant research, the definitions of several concepts, and the thinking way of demonstration and research methods. In the main part, the first chapter mainly demonstrates the general situation of talents’ geographical distribution from the perspective of formation of the three Kingdoms’ talent-groups, and analyses the reason for influencing talents’ geographical distribution from the aspects of politics, economy, culture and geography. According to certain regularity, Chapter Two makes a detailed statistics of talents’ birthplaces in the Wu Kingdom and the Shu Kingdom, arranges them by classification and analyses the features of talents’geographical distribution. Then it further discusses their influence on the politics of the Wu Kingdom and the Shu Kingdom by discovering essence through phenomenon. The next chapter has the same research method as Chapter Two. It analyses the features of talents’geographical distribution and further discusses their influence on the politics of the Wu Kingdom and the Shu Kingdom on the basis of a detailed statistics of the places where talents took office. At last it contrasts the talents’ geographical distribution in the two Kingdoms and explores their interior regularity. The conclusion generalizes the situation of development of southern areas in the period from the Western Dynasty and the Eastern Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms, and reveals the main tendency of historical development from the macro-perspective of humans’historical development.