The term "official family" for calling the emperor began in "Book of Jin·Shi Jilong Zai Ji": "It's hard to call an official family. I want to do something outrageous, will you follow me?" The emperor of the Song Dynasty called himself "official family". The result of the decline

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The term "official family" is used to refer to the emperor, starting from the "Book of Jin·Shi Jilong Zaiji": "It is difficult to call an official family. I want to do something unexpected, will you follow me?" The emperor of the Song Dynasty called himself an "official family", It was the result of the decline of imperial power in the early Song Dynasty and the improvement of the status of civil servants and common people.

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Zhao Kuangyin first became emperor through the "yellow robe", and later used " a glass of wine to release military power" to regain power. These seemed to come a little lightly. But if he wanted to convince his former brothers, he had no choice but to show the "generosity" of a king. From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms , the power of life and death in the imperial court was all in the hands of those generals who held military power. However, the emperors were constantly replaced, which led to the loss of the dignity of the "Emperor" and the decline of imperial power. After Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, most of the ministers around him were his former brothers. Therefore, he calls himself "official" rather than "emperor".

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The successors of the Song Dynasty did not change the title of "official family" in order to express their willingness to govern the world with all officials. After the Song Dynasty opened schools to obtain scholars, the common people's class moved upward, and the secular title of "official family" gradually became popular.

The Emperor of the Song Dynasty's Thoughts on the "Official Family"

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"The Wild History of Xiangshan" records: Once Song Zhenzong invited Li Zhongrong to drink, and deliberately used a large wine vessel to get him drunk. Li Zhongrong was so drunk that he said to Song Zhenzong: "Please ask the 'official family' to remove the large wine vessels." Song Zhenzong asked him: Why did the emperor call him "official family"? Li Zhongrong said that there is a saying in "The Theory of Wanji": "The three emperors govern the world, and the five emperors govern the world. They have the virtues of the three emperors and the five emperors, so they are called the official family."

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