Research On The Avoidance System Of The Tang Dynasty

In ancient China, family relationship linked by blood and relatives is the social foundation for a country. In Tang Dynasty, aim to consolidate centralization,avoid officials using genetics relationship to corrupt the political, trample the law, cause social unrest, they take officials selection avoidance design system and management seriously.Accompaniedthe decline of aristocratic power and development of new selection ways such as imperial exanimation, imperial power enhance the control to officials, and make the officials selection avoidance system to a mature new stage. The Tang Dynasty official selection avoidance system includes native parrying, relatives and close friends etc. Throughout Tang's history, native parrying's implement scope keep expanding, however Chang'an and Luoyang were exclude that scope. Relatives and close friends parrying was much strict, especially for the generations of important officials in Royal Court. Judicial challenge was the first time written by the Code. The official selection avoidance system's development was closely bound up with its political environment at that time which marked intense authoritarian political reflection. It has the significant influence on official selection, civil service and impairing execution, provides lessons for the present in many aspects.