The Study Of Northern Song Dynasty’s Horse Policy

In Cold War era, the war horses as a key factor affect the success or failure of zhe war, who has a high quantity and quality of the horses, who will have the advantage on the equipment in the war, and win the war. In the Northern Song and Liao and Xia’s war, very important reason for the failure of the Northern Song Dynasty is it’s shortage of horses, however Liao and Xia is powerful cavalry troop. Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty border security has been threatened Liao and Xia. In order to improve this situation, Northern Song rulers have made the construction of the horse a lot of political effort and a new attempt, Northern Song Dynasty rulers made a lot of effort and a new attempt at building a horses management system, among there are the inheritance of the previous generation and have their own innovation. Northern Song dynasty is the transformation of feudal society in China,so researching Northern Song Dynasty horses management system has both political necessity but also has great significance. At present, For the academic study of the Northern Song horses management system is relatively rare, This paper is written on the basis of researching existing historical materials, and strives to present horse political system of Northern Song dynasty completely, to make people know more about it and learn from it.This article is divided into three parts to research Northern Song dynasty’s horses management system;Part I describes the Northern Song Dynasty’s Monitoring animal husbandry system. This section mainly discuss. Monitoring animal husbandry system from three aspects.Including grazing management agencies of Monitoring system includes central and local authorities; Monitoring animal husbandry legal system about horse breeding, breeding sterile, sick horse management, worship, other relevant regulations; implement grazing system and its effects supervisor Causes of the Decline.Part II describes the Northern Song Dynasty’s folk rearing horse system. This section introduces realistic background of this system and details of the Bao-jia Horse breeding Act, Hu-ma Act and Yuanfeng Bao-jia Horse breeding Act, Evaluation of of these legal and finally analyze the effects of the implementation of this system, indicating the author’s attitude toward all phenomena.Part III describes the Northern Song Dynasty’s tea-horse trade system. This section analyzes the reasons for the implementation of the tea-horse trade Act, then describes agencies and content of the tea-horse Act.The implementing agencies are mainly analyze large institutional settings conflict between process appeared Tea Horse Division. Content of the tea-horse law mainly discusses the relevant provisions of Sichuan tea ban knock, Sichuan tea and tea-horse carriage parity. Finally, Implementation Evaluation of Tea-horse trade system are described.Through these three aspects describing, the paper will show the Northern Song horses management system "in the official beginning of animal husbandry, after storage in the people, and purchasing on borders," on the whole building.