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Types And Functions Of Chinese Ancient Vice Capitals

Posted on:2017-05-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y LiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330482999508Subject:Chinese history
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Chinese ancient capital history includes the history of the capital and the history of the vice capital. Before explain vice capital, we should talk about what is the capital. Capital is the place where holds the most important power. There are many different names of Chinese ancient capital. For example, the capital of the country, capital city, imperial capital, and so on. Capital includes three points, such as, a place the emperor live, huge place with the most worship, a place with huge number people. The answer is yes and the city calls vice capital. Vice capital is not a single case but a phenomenon of objective law and universal meaning. Vice capital is a city established except capital for some special requests to assist capital. It is a political system of strengthen the central power. Vice capital sometimes also calls temporary capital or left capital or another capital.The paper mainly talk about one of the vice capital name temporary capital’s types and functions. Temporary capital also calls temporary place and temporary imperial palace. It is a place where is outside the formal capital and used to temporary live and work. After Zhao Song dynasty cross Yangtze river,they make Hangzhou as vice capital. They hope to recover north of the Huang river and back to Bian capital. Mingcheng emperor make Beijing as vice capital until Ming Yingzong emperor and Beijing becomes capital. Chengde temporary capital also calls temporary place and "Rehe temporary place". The first one talks about temporary capital meaning and history change. The second one talks about temporary capital types and functions. Temporary capital includes three types, such as military, temporary capital and relaxation. Wuchang and Jiankang belong to military. Linan and Beijing belong to temporary capital. Chengde belongs to relaxation. And then analyze the function of each types. Functions includes military, culture, political and relaxation. The last part is inclusion which is the ending of the whole paper.
Keywords/Search Tags:Temporary capital, Temporary place, Temporary imperial palace, Function
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