The Research On The Decline Of Clan Zheng In Xingyang County During The Sui And Tang Dynasties

Xingyang Zhengshi was a famous large family Since the Han Dynasty onwards, was a relatively old family of power and influence which had relatively unique government ethics.Officials, family tree and government ethics were the elements which investigated the developments of the family of power and influence. Xingyang Zhengshi's family tree and officials development relatively quickly, there were more official family trees, higher entering political stratum rate and higher proportion of senior officials; but the family government ethics had few of the great, there were most behave lawlessness, greed, corruption in Northern dynasties.Sui and early Wu Zhou, Xingyang Zhengshi's family tree and officials also starts to take on the situation of the decline. The number of the official family trees reduced, entering political stratum rate decreased and proportion of senior officials also decreased; in terms of the family government ethics, Xingyang Zhengshi's officials inherited Xingyang Zhengshi's officials style which in Northern dynasties, when there were most behave lawlessness, greed,and there were higher the proportion of illegal misconduct.Xingyang Zhengshi's family tree and officials continued to decline, the number of the official family trees continued to reduce, entering political stratum rate and proportion of senior officials continued to decrease; but the family government ethics had a greater change,compared to the stage of the Sui and early Wu Zhou, the rate which good governance had a greater growth; intergenerational government ethics shifted gradually to excellent; and the family government ethics cleared up from Wu Zhou to Tang De Zong.From De Zong to the late Tang dynasty, Xingyang Zhengshi's family tree and officials eventually declined, the number of the official family trees reached a minimum since the Northern; Xingyang Zhengshi's official presented a "renaissance" situation, the proportion of senior officials of each generation had increased over the previous generation; in terms of the family government ethics, the family government ethics reached the most excellent stage in the history, the family government ethics was better than the previous stage; had a higher rate of good governance.In Sui and Tang dynasties, Xingyang Zhengshi had completely declined, but unlike thefamily tree and officials' decline directly and positively reflects the decline of Xingyang Zhengshi, the family government ethics gradually shifted excellent was the reverse presentation of the decline of Xingyang Zhengshi. About the reasons for the decline of Xingyang Zhengshi, solely from the perspective of the elections, the development of the officials at all levels in Sui and early Tang dynasties should be affected by menyin system; in the late Tang Dynasty, the development of senior officials should be affected by jinshi, junior officials as the main official, its development should be affected by rival principalities' pishu system. To a certain extent, the decline of Xingyang Zhengshi also represented the decline of other family of power and influence.