东晋士族世袭领州制初探

Research on the Hereditary City System for Aristocrats in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

东晋时期,在士族势力高度发展和东吴世袭领郡制的基础上,两者结合形成了士族世袭领州制。士族之间凭门户势力的较量,分别相应地统领不同的州,虽随条件变化作出进退,但都围绕着一州的统领权作为轴心来运转。其实质是士族把持政治,按门户档次分配地域权益,并希望世代保持下去。

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty,a hereditary city system for aristocrats had gradually came into being when aristocrats were at the summit of their power combined with the great influence exerted by hereditary county system of Wu Country in the Dynasty of Three Kingdoms. Aristocrats occupied different cities respectively after competing with each other based on their own strength. All aristocrats focused on the ruling rights without exception despite that they adjusted their practice in light of their ever-changing influence and strength. The nature of the ruling practice was that the aristocrats engineered politics of the times and shared different benefits according to their strength, which was a reflection of continuation of this ruling system and one of distinctive characteristics of aristocratic politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.