Use Talents From Chu:the Southern Intelligentsia In The West Wei And The Northern Zhou Dynasties

The concept of the southern intelligentsia in this passage mainly means the aristocracy of the Southern Dynasties who came into the West Wei and the Northern Zhou Dynasties because of wars.Hou Jing's Mutiny destroyed the aristocratic stratum in Jiankang,and when Emperor Yuan of Liang ascended the throne in Jiangling,the political center of Liang Dynasty moved from the lower Yangtze River to its upper reaches.Therefore,when the West Wei took those people from Jiangling to Guanzhong area,it meant the intelligentsia of the South Dynasties moved into north.This article focuses on what they did and how much help they make in the West Wei and the Northern Zhou.We try to research on how the South and the North Dynasties turned into the Sui and Tang Dynasties,and respond to those earlier researches in this topic.The methodologies of textual research,historiography analyzing,and mutual reflection on literature and history are using in the paper.The achievements in institution research and other specialized research are also be concerned.The authorized history build a typical narration,the core of that is giving the southern intelligentsia respect and accommodation.While if we read the history carefully,we could find out only a small part of people treated like that.They were the upper class in the southern intelligentsia.In addition,there was a large difference between biographies and reality.Most of the southern people became slaves,including the middle and lower classes of the southern intelligentsia.With the expansion of the West Wei and the Northern Zhou Dynasties,people came from south who became slaves before were set free gradually.Some people of the southern intelligentsia went back to the south,because of the relationship of Chen Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty.However,some people,who had been treat well,could not.There was a standard between them.Those talents had to stay,while others could went back south.During those 20 years or so,the North Zhou Dynasty grew up gradually with the help of the southern intelligentsia.Use talents from Chu,this rhetoric came from a literary quotation in Chinese classics.It reflected the attitudes of the West Wei and the Northern Zhou Dynasties.The two dynasties took a kind of political culture,studying the Zhou Dynasty.It means responding and surpassing the ideal time of Chinese history.This ambition show their purpose on orthodoxy.The southern intelligentsia made a lot in that work.They took part in the political institutional constructions.Linzhi Palace set by Emperor Ming and Lumen School set by Emperor Wu,were two important institutions that using a lot of southern intelligentsia in cultural construction of the West Wei and the Northern Zhou Dynasties.One for collecting books,the other for teaching Confucian Classics.Linzhi Palace was imitated the South Dynasties' institution and it also effected later ages.Moreover,the position of Lumen was very special in political space.From Linzhi Palace to Lumen School,they used the southern intelligentsia deeper and deeper.The southern intelligentsia also contributed on making calendar and music of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.One the one hand,the southern intelligentsia could not go into the hierarchy of the West Wei and the Northern Zhou Dynasties.On the other hand,the emperors of the Northern Zhou Dynasty used the southern intelligentsia in cultural fields and let they move as their will.Except for Linzhi Palace and Lumen School,the southern intelligentsia usually became the other two kinds of officials.One is literary secretary,from legionary sections to the central government.The other is the teachers and attendants of the imperial family.All those positions need literary skills.The literary activities between the southern intelligentsia and the imperial family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty happened under such background.Some imperial relatives showed good literary accomplishment and strong interest in it.The southern intelligentsia could get those positions partly according to this.Meanwhile,the communication with the southern intelligentsia also stimulated and cultivated their capacity in literature.Emperors were leaders of that kind of atmosphere.Through using talents from the southern intelligentsia,the West Wei and the Northern Zhou Dynasties built their own orthodox authority as Huaxia.The attitude and policy in using the southern intelligentsia became a tendency in the later ages.The condition of the intelligentsia of Chen came into Sui Dynasty was just same as it.