中古天水权氏家族的变迁

The Evolution of Quan Clan of Tianshui in Medieval Period

权氏望出天水,是中古时期的陇右大族。天水权氏名列《太平寰宇记》所载秦州(天水郡)七姓之首:权、赵、尹、庄、龙、狄、姜[1]。又,敦煌文书《新集天下姓望氏族谱》亦将权氏列为秦州(天水郡)所出二十郡姓之一[2]。长期以来,学界对天水权氏的研究多聚焦于中唐时期的权德舆,且相关研究主要围绕权德舆年谱、诗文、交游等文学层面[3]。

The Quan clan of Tianshui was a powerful clan in Longyou area in the medieval Period.From Han to Sixteen States Dynasties,the Quan clan of Tianshui was not well-known in the rural society,and was influenced by Hu people who they lived in a mixed place with.In the period of Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties,the Quan clan of Tianshui was the second-rank military aristocracy clan of Guanlong bloc.During the establishment of the Tang Dynasty,the Quan clan of Tianshui became a pioneer in Li Tang’s regime.In the early Tang Dynasty,the branches of the Quan clan of Tianshui had gradually changed from warriors into literati,and formed the family inheritance of literature.They migrated from the ancestral home Tianshui to the political centers Chang’an and Luoyang and completed the process of"centralization".Up to the middle Tang Dynasty,a genealogy of intelligentsia clan combining eminent ancestors and contemporary eminence had been formed.The above three changes indicate that the Quan clan of Tianshui had completed the transformation from a military aristocratic family into a bureaucratic aristocratic family.