东晋门阀政治中的桓氏父子

The Fathers and Sons of the Huan Family in the Politics of Power and Influence in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

在以门阀政治为特征的东晋政局中 ,士族与皇帝分享权力 ,士族有时甚至凌驾于皇权之上。桓温、桓玄父子均以取得皇权为目标 ,最终却连门户也无法保全。桓温的失败在于没有充分理解门阀政治的运行规则 ,打破了门阀政治的平衡原则 ;桓玄的失败则体现了士族势力的整体衰落。

The politics in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was characterized by the politics of families of power and influence.They tried to share power with the emperor,and sometimes they oven enjoyed power over the rulers.Huan Wen and Huan Xuan and their sons took the imperial power as their aim but in the end they could hardly keep their family safe.They failed,because they didn't understand the mechanism of operation,they borke the balance of such politics at that time,and all this showed the declining of the influence of such families as a whole.