Study On Fengchaoqing Of The Northern Wei Dynasty

The Northern Wei Dynasty which was an alien regime established by Tuoba Xianbei,in order to consolidate their own rule and development,they ercruited the gentry of many other regimes into their own regime,by conferred with them official positions and preferential treatment.In this social context,The Northern Wei DynastyFengchaoqing was set up.Under normal circumstances,Fengchaoqing was served as the first founding official for The Northern Wei Dynasty of the top family.In The Northern Wei Dynasty,fengchaoqing is belong to jishu,In the 17 th year of emperor Taihe's reign,the vice-sixth grade was upgraded,and in the 23 rd year of Taihe's reign,the vice-seventh grade was awarded by the staff order,according to Guan Shi Zhi in Wei Shu.As reliable courtiers for the monarchs,the Fengchaoqing officials could accompany with the emperors,give advices,take charge of national security and so on.Fengchaoqing as a springboard in the offical career,the vast majority of officals who took up Fengchaoqing could make a leap from a sinecure to an offical position with a permanent office.Moreover,more than ninety percent of the Fengchaoqing officials could surpass the bureaucrat vice-fifth,some even surpass vice-third,to undertake important position.Since xiaowen emperor,the Fengchaoqing officials were conferred indisscriminately,gradually appeared the idle trend.The officials not only as their own official,but also in the form of extra official,because Fengchaoqing became a sign gradually that symbolize the identity level.At the end of The Northern Wei Dynasty,Fengchaoqing were awarded on the military,to rapidly advance its evolution of civil sinecure.In addition,Fengchaoqing in The Northern Wei Dynasty is different from other dynasty in some inspects,like personnel structure,official way,career moving ect,but it has a chaaracteristic of The Northern Wei Dynasty.As a whole,From the development process of the post in the Northern Wei Dynasty,we can see the background of the political development and the operation of the bureaucratic system.