Immigration Family:A Case Study Of The Long-Xi Xin Family

The purpose of this paper is discussing a Non-Jing-Yang scholar-official family developing in the Northern Wei dynasty.As we all know,if some scholar-official family want to carve out a successful career at politics in Southern and Northern dynasties,they had to take position at central government,mean well it has local influence at their native regain.Long-xi Xin family is a famous scholar-official family at the Long-xi Di-dao,the family originate from the Western Han Dynasty having famous members Xin Wuxian and his son Xin Qinji,Xin Tong at east Han dynasty.According to the Book of Wei,Xin Shaoxin is descendant of the Long-xi Xin family,but his pedigree of a clan is disappear at the New Book of Tang.But we can find his family member at early Tang dynasty.In the first chapter of this thesis,the author mainly reviewed the pedigree of his family and discussed the reasons for the lack of pedigree.In combination with histories and epitaph materials,his family lineage disappear was considered to be due to the family's geographical identity change.This transformation made Its family lineage is difficult to record in the entire family lineage.At the same time,this kind of disappear is also related to the family lack of a prime minister in the Tang Dynasty.The second chapter mainly examines the process of changing the family's geographical identity,and the process of reconstructing the influence of the village in a new place.As a member of the Long-xi clans,Xin Shaoxian was forced to move eastwards due to political reasons in the early Northern Wei Dynasty.However,his family did not "sink down and down" but they moved to Jing-yang through his post and held a state election,and marriage.Long-xi Xin family is reconstruction of their family's influence in the Jing-yang.To the time of Xin shaoxian's death,the Northern Wei Dynasty government gave him the title of "Bing-chou provincial governor" and "duke of Jing-yang".The government of the Northern Wei Dynasty approved,in a certain degree,the act of reconstructing the countryside in the family by means of "Granting Title of Nobility".The geographical identity of his family has changed,from the "Longxi clans"to the Jing-yang clans.The third chapter mainly investigates how the family consolidates and develops their family forces in Jing-yang area,when the Reform of Emperor Xiao-wen.After his family set foot in Jing-yang,the family members had long served in the Jing-yang area.They had extensive contacts with the scholars in Jing-yang and He-dong areas through their positions and alliances.Based on Jing-yang,the Xin family established a network of relationships including He-dong Liu family,Taiyuan wang family and Long-xi Li family.Within the network of relationships,the Xin family continued to consolidate and develop at Jing-yang,meanwhile they could help their friends and relative who faced difficult.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the development of the family from the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty.The network of interpersonal relationships established by his family in Jing-yang still played a role in the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty.With the help of this network,the family succeeded in avoiding the disaster of "He-yin massacre" and its family members were able to reach the early Tang Dynasty.In addition,through the research on his family's residence,it is known that his family has gradually begun the process of centralization in the end of Northern Wei Dynasty.Its performance is to gradually lose contact with Jing-yang,and its place of residence or place of employment has begun to move away from Jing-yang.The members of his family also showed a tendency of "literature" after the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Northern Qi Dynasty.During this period,the Xin family descendant is famous for literature,and many people in the family participated in the compilation of the history books.As the "immigrant family",the local identity of the Xin family was changed from Long-xi to Jing-yang in the Northern Wei Dynasty,since then Jing-yang become the household register of Xin family,rely on the family power at the Jing-yang,Xin family could take position at the Northern Wei Dynasty.After the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasty,the Xin family gradually moved from Jing-yang to the capital of central government,and gradually became a central literary bureaucrat family.