As a descendant of Wang Langya, I have known the glory of Wang Langya since I was a child. In ancient times, I would be a clan rather than a cold clan. That's the point. The dispute between imperial clan and cold door is one of the main struggles of traditional China for more than two thousand years. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were more serious. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei took the lead in implementing the system of selecting officials by right. With the implementation of the system, there is no top grade. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yuan Shao was a family. He always said that the four generations were fair, the Yuan family was rich, and Cao Cao was only half a family, but there were a Cui Shi family in Qinghe, a Xun family in Yingchuan, and three families in Wei, Shu and Wu. Cao Wei has the best relationship with his family, which is one of the reasons why Cao Wei replaced Liu Han.
Later, the Sima family established the Western Jin Dynasty, but because it was not a family, it was impossible to maintain the family's world, control the family's world, and finally destroy the country. Here we can see how important the clan power is, and the establishment of Cao Wei and the Western Jin Dynasty could not be separated from it. What is a clan? Clans are politically superior, generous, monopolizing political power, economically blocking mountains and rivers, occupying large areas of land and labor, and advocating empty talk in culture. In order to maintain this system, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Southern Dynasties, the clan attached great importance to compiling genealogy and attached importance to the origin of the clan as proof of their privileges, so genealogy flourished, and genealogy monographs became a tool for official departments to select officials, maintain the privileged position of the clan, and monopolized the land. This is a family.
? The demise of the Western Jin Dynasty and the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were all related to the clan. Dongdu is the fusion of the northern clan and the southern clan. Wang Langya, headed by Wang Dao, represented Xie, Yuan, Xiao and other northern clansmen, and reached an agreement with the southern clansmen headed by Wu Jun's four surnames: Zhang Wen, Zhu Wu, Lu Zhong and Gu Hou. The demise of the Western Jin Dynasty made the imperial family of Sima sparsely populated, so the royal family and the cremation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty *. However, the aristocratic family itself is not really loyal to the Sima family. In particular, they all own a large number of fields and even have their own army (the so-called "Ministry"), which has enough strength to counter the Sima regime. At first, Wang Dao presided over the overall situation, and the Eastern Jin regime was stable, so it was called "the king and the horse, * * * the world". This is the heyday of the clan.
? Clans flourished here and declined in the real establishment of the imperial examination system. Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty, the eldest son of Yang Zhong, one of the eight-pillar countries in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the grandson of Li Hu, one of the eight-pillar countries in Tang Gaozu, is also a clan, while Li Yuan's mother and Emperor Wendi's lonely queen are sisters, and the clans exchange interests with each other and consolidate themselves through marriage. There is a very important reason for the demise of the Sui Dynasty, that is, the imperial examination reform of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty and the establishment of the imperial examination in Yang Di seriously touched the interests of the clan, that is.