| The rulers of ancient China always adopt relegation to punish officials. Those punishment help them to manage officials and achieve their political goal. The studies on the south of the Yangtze river in Tang dynasty were attach importance to the academia. The group of officials who were relegate exile to the south of the Yangzi river is a special community.They are such significant power for the development of the south of theYangtze river in Tang dynasty.The article summarized the group of officials who were demoted to the south of the Yangzi river and analysed the data in time and geography.In order to clarify relegated officials’history, chapter two discusses relegated officials’politics of identity and the cause of frustration. Their artistic appreciation and statesmanship are the sally port to find out their real situation. There are four reason why those officials were demoted to the south of the Yangzi river. The four reasons are misconduct, tieing up with political and statute, forming a clique to pursue selfish interest, wrong political stand and being out of favour.Chapter three is about relegated officials’position, which can be split to prefecture and arrondissement. The changes of official position will totally alter official’s social life,and reflect the modification of their personal official career.Those relegated officials’activities in the south of the Yangzi river are the most important parts in their banished officials. Chapter four placed extra emphasis on officials’achievements and political destinies in the south of the Yangzi river. The officials’achievements focus on local education, social traditions, person with ability, natural and man-made disaster, city wall and moat, the levy of tax and local military force. Political destinies have five situation:transfer,amnesty,conscript, be the office of an assistant to a high official and other conditions. Chapter five discussed relegated officials’social life, which stressed on officials’condition, social communication and cultural life. |
